To all you americans!

[breeno]

Try having a look at Australian Rules Football or the AFL, and Cricket!

Much better than Grid Iron and Baseball.

Seriously, youtube some AFL, it's the skill of soccer, with the physicality of Grid Iron in one. Maybe even try youtubing the 10 biggest AFL bumps. We dont wear pads!

 

[terryl965]

OK mate more power to you.

 

[breeno]

OK mate more power to you.

Damn right

 

[Steve]

Soccer has skill???

 

[Archangel M]

You would see it if you can stay awake.

 

[Steve]

Here in America we have this thing called Hand/Eye coordination. Kids who don't have that play soccer.

 

[Omar B]

I used to play cricket as a child, but that was when I lived in India and Jamaica. I enjoy the game, but I don't get comparing one game to another like you are.

 

[elder999]

Try having a look at Australian Rules Football or the AFL, and Cricket!

I have......-yawn!-

Much better than Grid Iron and Baseball.

BLASPHEMY!

 

[DBZ]

Cricket!? you got to know what a crumpit is to play cricket! - Raphael TMNT

 

[crushing]

Soccer has skill???

Here in America we have this thing called Hand/Eye coordination. Kids who don't have that play soccer.

Why the soccer bashing?

Of course soccer takes skill and coordination and it can be a very physical game within the rules and without penalty.

 

[Nolerama]

I like oranges more than I like apples.

But I don't hate. That's for cricket players and the googlies, sitting around playing with their wickets...

Baseball, to me, is a very social sport, spectator-wise. In St. Louis, people get together and reconnect at a ball game. Our sense of community is partially based around the sport.

Why insult a community? See where I'm going with this?

I suggest growing up.

 

[Omar B]

I hear you man, there's no better or best sport, it's the community aspect of it. As a kid I played cricket and soccer because where I lived that's what all the other kids played and I wanted to play. When I moved permanently to the US in middle school and high school my friends and I played football every Friday, rain or shine all year, even in a blizzard. Even now those bonds developed in those years have not faded, they are still all my best bros and we still laugh and joke about when whoever got his shoulder broken, or knee broken, or lost a tooth when he slipped on the ice or when the cops ordered us to go home because we were playing in a blizzard.

I know many people who feel the same way about baseball, cricket, tennis, etc the way I feel about football.

 

[Steve]

Why the soccer bashing?

Of course soccer takes skill and coordination and it can be a very physical game within the rules and without penalty.

All in fun. My impression was that this was not intended to be a serious thread, and I treated it as such. Why on Earth would I actually have anything against soccer?

I honestly didn't take the OP as a serious comment on American football or baseball. Instead, it seemed to me to be a friendly jibe and I attemped to respond in kind.

So, if anyone lacking hand/eye coordination was offended, I sincerely apologize.

 

[arnisador]

Better than baseball? Never!

 

[Archangel M]

Soccer..what other sport can you watch for hours for a final score of 1-0???

 

[Steve]

Soccer..what other sport can you watch for hours for a final score of 1-0???

Hockey?

 

[Archangel M]

Hockey?

but there are sanctioned fist-fights in hockey.

 

[Steve]

but there are sanctioned fist-fights in hockey.

Hell yeah!!!

 

[Carol]

but there are sanctioned fist-fights in hockey.

Yessssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Omar B]

but there are sanctioned fist-fights in hockey.

Thank you! If you are not putting points on the board you better be hitting somebody!