Precision?
As in Manning throwing a 60 yard pass between a safety and corner, right into the spot where only his receiver can catch it, all while being nailed by a 320 pound man who runs a 4.8 40....
lol, and you wanna talk precision....
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Precision?
As in Manning throwing a 60 yard pass between a safety and corner, right into the spot where only his receiver can catch it, all while being nailed by a 320 pound man who runs a 4.8 40....
lol, and you wanna talk precision....
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That just sounds easy lol, how about doing it with your foot and make it 100 yards with 10 yards of swerve..Originally Posted by xlxBigSexyxlx
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lol, its like comparing apples to oranges....
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"America is based on a just and efficient meritocracy that thrives on measured competition. That's why soccer has never really quite caught on here. They play a whole game and often the only score is a single goal awarded based on a flop in the penalty area. Americans would never stand for it. It reeks of random injustice and unearned glory.
Could you imagine if they played a whole basketball game and no one was able to score and then based on one foul the other team got a free throw worth fifty points? That about sums up soccer.
A culture gets the sport it deserves. While America runs and runs, the rest of the world takes its time and people's lives often change with one critical stroke of luck. In America, we believe in second chances. There's almost always hope that you can catch up in basketball and football. In soccer, you fall behind by two goals and you're pretty much done.
How often have you seen a soccer game where one team completely outplays the other and the weaker side wins anyway based on a fluke goal? The answer is -- all the time. I understand there's luck and fluke plays in all sports, but they are not as critical when they are not the only score in the game.
Yes, I know soccer is an art form and it has a different beauty. And actually I love the World Cup despite the fact that I think the players are unacceptably whiny actors and that the Artic ice cap is more likely to fall into the ocean than have an important soccer game with more than two goals. But despite my affinity for a game I actually grew up with (I was raised in Turkey and New Jersey, both soccer hubs), I can see its faults clearly. It might be the beautiful game but it is not the just game. To me, justice matters.
Go ahead, tell me how I don't understand and how I am an American brute. Just don't fall down in fake, agonizing pain as you're complaining."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-u...s_b_24781.html
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-The "World" Cup is not the a World's Cup, but a competition among 32 countries, disproportionately allotted to European countries.
-Soccer is boring. Soccer is absurdly slow. I've had soccer apologists say with false pride how the average soccer participant "runs" 4 miles in a game. Newsflash: that means they are jogging less than 3 miles per hour. Translation: they are mostly standing around. BORING
-Soccer participants act like they've been shot - what pussies. Meanwhile, real athletes like Donovan McNabb or Bobby Baun play on broken legs.
-Penalty kicks. You are determining a winner by a random event that has no relevance to the rest of the game. It would be as stupid as replacing extra innings with batting practice.
-Psychotic fans. The South Korean loser who set himself on fire is one example. The mental stability of the murderer who killed that one player because he sucked (free clue: all soccer participants suck) is another.
-Ties: 55% of games are ties. Ties suck.
-Soccer is not objective. There is no play clock. The game doesn't end after the clock has run down. This adds bias, subjectivism and appeals to lower intellects, and it destroys the drama from last second victories. Contrast such clumsy timekeeping (shame on the Swiss, who should know better) and the lack of any discernable strategy with the strategic precision of the two-minute drill in football.
-Soccer is not objective, part two. The lack of offensive chances leads to ties, which, as we know, suck. Soccer's "solution?" Let's randomize the result (in those cases where a tie suddenly becomes an affront, the "World" Cup) by having penalty kicks.
-Soccer cheering has no point. Football fans successfully cause opposing teams' offenses to call timeouts, use up the play clock, screw up audibles or cause procedure penalties. Ask Burt Hooton whether baseball fans affect an opponent's performance. Soccer? They sing songs - which all sound the same - regardless of outcome. It doesn't celebrate performance. It doesn't serve to intimidate. It has no purpose.
-Soccer counts time up. Soccer games count the time that has elapsed, rather than the time remaining. This is stupid for a number of reasons. First, soccer games don't refer to time anyway, so why even keep it? Second, why the concern on the past? The score already reflects all important information of what has already happened in the game. In soccer, this is most likely irrelevant anyway, since the score is most likely 0-0, er, nil, nil. The focus should be on the result - which depends on the future. Thus, time should count down. Can you imagine NASA counting up (from, say, when JFK made his speech about landing on the moon in a decade)? How stupid would that be?
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lol, this will go on forever....
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i'd like to see some of those guys shooting this missile free-kick (roberto carlos goal against France)...
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=-t5MF7...eature=related
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I remember that goal, just couldnt believe what i saw...
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Soccer is complex and full of stategy? Have you seen a NFL playbook? Let me break it down for you. When I played for the raiders, their passing games have over 300 pages of the PASSING game alone, 175 pages of rushing playes. The Defensive playbook book was in the 250 page range. Name one soccer playbook that detailed. That doesn't include special teams.
Run fat boy run? I guarantee 90% of football players can out run any soccer player. Have you seen the bodies of Brandon Jacobs (6'4 265 running back, runs 4.6), Javon Kurse (6'5 270lbs, 8%bf, ran a 4.38), Matt Jones (6'6 250lbs 4.35), Vernon Davis (8% bf, 6'3 245lbs, 4.3). The list goes on and on. And I haven't even got into the ridiculous athleticisism of some defensive backs, receivers, and other running backs. None one player in soccer with Reggie Bush's athleticism, or Ladaninian Tomlinson, etc. This argument is boder line ridiculous!!!
Show me a soccer player who can do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ACXdm3Ebs
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgV_z3mySE
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that was one of the best free kicks ever.. i've watched that vid so many times and its still amazing. i can get some decent curve on the outside but no where near that or that power, thats amazing.
i skipped most of the posts in here, but america doesn't agree with the rest of the world in anything... look at the 2 biggest sports in the world, soccer and formula 1. i love f1, it makes nascar look like a joke, like the xfl was to football.
people who say soccer isn't violent have never played it seriously. you can get away with so much in the game, and the only protection is a 6" piece of plastic on your shins. definitely the best athletes in the world, what other sport do you run for 90 minutes straight in? they make football players look like couch potatoes.
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Good post, you see its unfair for me to judge American football, because i know very little about it. I tried to watch it once because im a big sports fan, the game just seemed to stop and start every few seconds.. I persume you have a good insight into both games...
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