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post 1519894941 09-19-2017, 09:57 AM
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matter of time, depends on when they can earn money. when the salary starts to go up, top athletes will start transitioning over, knowing that you can earn more and have get more fame through football during to international coverage. nba is safe though, simply because nba is popular widely around the world
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Originally Posted By Aceros⏩
oh and baseball players are top athletes are they? lol this guy.
I haven't seen too many twinks hit 30 home runs.

Just Brady Anderson.
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America will never embrace this:















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Originally Posted By Kev1972⏩
I haven't seen too many twinks hit 30 home runs.

Just Brady Anderson.
Baseball players are horrible athletes compared to pretty much any other sport besides the obvious like golf or bowling.
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[QUOTE=bustermac post_id=1519895221]America will never embrace this:

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[img]https://m.popkey.co/cb8703/vkGa5.gif[img][/QUOTE]I'd bet money you're old and from some rural chithole..

Also chit like this happens in basketball and football. So tool ate The last two clips are just people tripping.
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post 1519895671 09-19-2017, 10:06 AM
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Problem with American soccer is that everyone is a Forward or a Keeper. We need to build up defenders and midfielders at a younger age.
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Originally Posted By Kev1972⏩
I haven't seen too many twinks hit 30 home runs.

Just Brady Anderson.
Anderson was muscular for a baseball player, bro.
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Originally Posted By travellingbrah⏩
Baseball players are horrible athletes compared to pretty much any other sport besides the obvious like golf or bowling.
Substantiate your claim using facts.
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Originally Posted By Fuqdatass⏩
Don't get mad because your fruity sport is boring.

Hockey can go 1-0 and be a blast because the playing field isn't half a mile long and the action is consistent. Watching dudes jog for hours is boring pal.
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I'd much rather hockey become our #1 sport. The sport where they are allowed to fist fight, which is a stark contrast to soccer where *******s pretend injuries as part of their strategy.

Sports are pretty laughable in the US. People take them so seriously, despite the fact that it's mostly advertising as OP mentioned.
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If I want to watch men going around for 90mins without any action, I would just accompany OP to a bar and watch him.
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I agree with the OP. Anyone who can see and read has noticed how fast the sport is growing here.

Kids will play less football because of concussions. They'll play less baseball because its boring AF. Hockey will never grow because of the costs to get into it. Basketball will probably stay where its at or grow even more. Soccer is easy to pick up and cheap. Its also the most popular sport in the world and the foreign leagues get pretty solid ratings over here on NBCSN. Americans are finally waking up and seeing that their sports(NFL,MLB) are inferior and boring.

Even though hockey has always been my number 1 sport, I've been watching less of the NHL and more of the EPL/Bundesliga/MLS. The current state of hockey is not very entertaining IMO.
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Originally Posted By vicgin⏩
I agree with the OP. Anyone who can see and read has noticed how fast the sport is growing here.

Kids will play less football because of concussions. They'll play less baseball because its boring AF. Hockey will never grow because of the costs to get into it. Basketball will probably stay where its at or grow even more. Soccer is easy to pick up and cheap. Its also the most popular sport in the world and the foreign leagues get pretty solid ratings over here on NBCSN. Americans are finally waking up and seeing that their sports(NFL,MLB) are inferior and boring.

Even though hockey has always been my number 1 sport, I've been watching less of the NHL and more of the EPL/Bundesliga/MLS. The current state of hockey is not very entertaining IMO.
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Originally Posted By travellingbrah⏩
Baseball players are horrible athletes compared to pretty much any other sport besides the obvious like golf or bowling.
The best athletes I knew growing up all went into baseball because it pays the best. You get 1 million right out of high school.
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Originally Posted By TokenV⏩
Why do you say especially in the English leagues? Even in Belgium you stick to one team your entire life. You will always have bandwagoners ofcourse but they won't keep coming.

For the rest agreed with your post.
For sure there are die hard football fans all over the planet, I only mentioned the EPL as there's stadiums with top class facilities for many clubs that aren't world beaters, yet week after week they fill the stands, people who support teams in the EPLsupporttheir teams, which I know can be said for many countries around the world but England especially is packed with great stadiums and has the most quality players thanks to the fans who continue to stand by their clubs.
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Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
It's funny because euro's always think this MUST be true but honestly I have not met a single American-born person IRL who watches soccer. We don't even know the names of a single player on our national team. Most americans find it funny we even have a national team. It's so far out of sight here. Only foreigners watch it (from europe/mexico/south america). And even they are a small pocket of the "fans"
Completely untrue. You can't use your personal experience and assume it's like that everywhere. Because it isn't.

At my job more people do fantasy soccer then football and multiple of us are season ticket holders for NY Redbull. Big groups of us go to games very regularly.
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Originally Posted By bustermac⏩
America will never embrace this:

Same tired argument, as soon as you get into the game you get over diving. It's a trick of the trade and people do get punished for it anyways.

Also prevalence of diving varies from league to league. The south americans are probably the worst. Americans are not as bad though alot of south american players come up here.
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You listed that it was an average game, yet it is the single game attendance record... you should go look at college football if you want to see attendance records.
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Originally Posted By Kev1972⏩
No. You guys just like it because its a game any weedy little manlet can do well in.
umad that "weedy little manlet" is making 5x the amount of money average NFL player makes and has twice as long a career?
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These.

If I want to watch men going around for 90mins without any action, I would just accompany OP to a bar and watch him.
As opposed to exciting split of 10 mins action, 80 mins commercials. Excitement is through the roof brah
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Originally Posted By Kev1972⏩
I haven't seen too many twinks hit 30 home runs.

Just Brady Anderson.
Wut?



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Originally Posted By Trillical⏩
The 1-0 score argument is something I will never understand. ..... Another thing is, even if a game goes 0-0, there's still points being made from that game. A 0-0 game does not equal a 0 point game.
U wot m8? 0-0 is a tie. If it is not a tie then no wonder the world is ****ed up.
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Originally Posted By gwem32170191⏩
U wot m8? 0-0 is a tie. If it is not a tie then no wonder the world is ****ed up.
It's still a tie but each team gets 1 point which can be the difference between staying in the league or getting relegated at the end of the season, or getting through group stages etc, so even goalless games can still be tense.
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Originally Posted By tekkenbruh⏩
umad that "weedy little manlet" is making 5x the amount of money average NFL player makes and has twice as long a career?



As opposed to exciting split of 10 mins action, 80 mins commercials. Excitement is through the roof brah
This is the most ridiculous argument they make.

I love football, I watch games every Sunday with my NFL crazy friends.... but I'll see them vegetate at endless commercials and sub 10 yard gains after saying soccer is boring. Even when their team scores they barely make a peep.

It's like some phucked up form of Stockholm syndrome.
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And once that happens, we will dominate the world of soccer, just like we dominate everything else.

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Originally Posted By ZenBowman⏩
And once that happens, we will dominate the world of soccer, just like we dominate everything else.

MAGA!
If America had focused on soccer like other sports from the beginning we would be number one already. Look at the USA women's team... They've been competing since women's soccers beginning and they are world cup champions.
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So you are saying in 20 years i'll have a lot more free time because we wont have good sports like football, baseball, and basketball to worry about watching anymore?
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Originally Posted By ZenBowman⏩
And once that happens, we will dominate the world of soccer, just like we dominate everything else.

MAGA!
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If America had focused on soccer like other sports from the beginning we would be number one already. Look at the USA women's team... They've been competing since women's soccers beginning and they are world cup champions.
We'd be much better but to compete with South America & Europe - I don't see how that's possible.

Their soccer culture is many times stronger than ours. From their youth systems all the way through their top flight. Soccer would have to become the #1 sport in the USA by far and it would take decades after that to even get CLOSE to the other countries. But we can still score shock victories in international competition. It's happened before. Our players have heart that's for sure.
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We have a really terrible team this year. Meanwhile at my university its normal for 100,000 fans to show up for a football game, and that's one college. That's twice as many who attend the world cup. Any given Saturday. One town in one state.
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Originally Posted By travellingbrah⏩
I'd bet money you're old and from some rural chithole..

Also chit like this happens in basketball and football. So tool ate The last two clips are just people tripping.
Typical debate tactic when someone (usually a liberal) can't win...personal attacks and name-calling.


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Originally Posted By Beelze⏩
There's a reason soccer's known as the beautiful game, you have to follow it for a while to start picking up on the intricacies and then you'll start to enjoy watching it not only when there's goals being scored but also when you see an amazing pass with perfect weight and placement that just tears through the defense etc. Not everything is about adding a number to a tally, and watching good football with not many goals is far better than watching sloppy games with clumsy tap ins due to poor teamwork, you just have to start watching it frequently to start appreciating it. And every now and again you'll have an absolute belter of a goal, and not only is it an exceptional goal but the weight it carries is huge also, and there's no better league for this than the English Premier League, it doesn't have all the best players but it's super competitive and it's often just 1 goal that makes all the difference.

There's moments that happen in football that can't be replicated in other sports, like Man City winning the league for the first time in over 40 years, they were down 2-1 against QPR in the very last game of the season, they needed to win to beat Man United who were at the top of the league, a draw wasn't enough, and then in the 5 minutes of extra time they scored twice, the last goal coming from one of the last kicks of the game. You don't see this anywhere else, no other sport can build tension like this, no other sport can turn on its head at a moments notice, this is why it's the best sport and is recognised so by the world. Show me anything that comes close to this...

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