Is soccer the most stupid sport of all time???

[SoV]

Someone who needs help sleeping.

What a great reply!

[beeps220]

How is this thread still around

[Pokerjoe]

Soccer may not suit Americans, myself included, but that sport probably generates the highest betting volume in the world. Even a 0-0 game would be interesting if you bet on the draw, under, or 0-0 exact score.

Not "probably." Soccer betting dwarfs US sports betting.

Face it, folks: much as we love it, the NFL is a minor league. It's a domestic title, nothing more. But it does have instant replay, which soccer desperately needs. And it cares about corruption, which soccer definitely doesn't.

[Pokerjoe]

And about ties: if neither team could win straight up, why artificially determine a winner with a coin flip? I like soccer's honesty in that regard.

And as to 0-0: I've seen great, great games end like that. And I've seem moronic NBA games where the scoring was >220. I prefer a sport where a goal means something.

Look, I don't understand NASCAR. But I don't knock it. I don't know why anyone would knock other sports. In fact, no one does, with one exception: something about soccer scares some Americans (not most Americans, just a small minority, which is part of what frightens the small minority; or maybe I should say "little"). Is it that soccer players get the girls, because they aren't cows with bad knees like ex-NFL players? Is it the lack of subtle homosexuality that football has, so you can't "prove" your manhood by watching it while at the same time stoking (stroking?) your latent homosexual desires? Or is it that soccer will one day pass the other sports in popularity here (it just keeps growing and growing and growing ... )?

A mystery for the ages.

[pavyracer]

The reason there are ties in soccer is because the season is 40 games long and each team plays all others at least once at home and on the road. So this is a true champion because it faced all other teams. No need to decide ties because the win worths 3 points and the tie worths 1 point.

In NFL teams play only 1/3 of the other teams hence they play OT to determine winner and determine seedings for playoffs. Different game different format.

[RubberKettle]

Can we please move this abomination out of the soccer forum?

[pronk]

Can we please move this abomination out of the soccer forum?

This bullshit thread belongs in Newbie subforum

[Ace_of_Spades]

Soccer is one of the greatest sports ever.

[hockeyhy]

Why is this topic still on here delete it!!!

[Blue_Chips]

And about ties: if neither team could win straight up, why artificially determine a winner with a coin flip? I like soccer's honesty in that regard.

And as to 0-0: I've seen great, great games end like that. And I've seem moronic NBA games where the scoring was >220. I prefer a sport where a goal means something.

Look, I don't understand NASCAR. But I don't knock it. I don't know why anyone would knock other sports. In fact, no one does, with one exception: something about soccer scares some Americans (not most Americans, just a small minority, which is part of what frightens the small minority; or maybe I should say "little"). Is it that soccer players get the girls, because they aren't cows with bad knees like ex-NFL players? Is it the lack of subtle homosexuality that football has, so you can't "prove" your manhood by watching it while at the same time stoking (stroking?) your latent homosexual desires? Or is it that soccer will one day pass the other sports in popularity here (it just keeps growing and growing and growing ... )?

A mystery for the ages.

I'm sorry, but I have never seen a great game with no score. 0-0 makes no sense. You play any game to score.

[TexansFan]

I don't really care for kickball, but that's just me.

[flyingillini]

There is no sport in the world like betting on than Soccer. It is by far the most exciting sport to bet on and watch. No other sports can even come close. Hockey a far 2nd.