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| Are you serious? (I know you are not but i want to discuss it anyways, cause no one in my school wants to hear it  .) I hope america loses right away. Why? becasue here in america no ones even cares for watching soccer or playing it. Yes some do...but soccer isnt even in the top three of sports watched. I live Here, and i know soccer isnt popular so i dont want a non popular sport in one country to win the biggest thing the whole world will watch. Also it would be an insult to Brazil, Argentina and all the great European teams. Take a look at England, they invented hooliganism, they fight bloody for a team. They love this sport. I hope a team in which the country loves the sport wins, and that is definitely not the United states. Any opinions? ( if you think im stealing this threD PM sso i can start a new thred)
"Don't Cry For Me I'm Already Dead."
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 | Yeah, but always realize how much respect would be won here in the US if they did win. Soccer is getting much more popular in the US. The MLS has been around 10 years now, and it's going strong. More teams are getting their own stadiums, more teams are getting added. I know around here in the past 8 years or so soccer has become a lot more popular, we've had a team at our school for 5 now (still haven't had a very successful season at all, lol). It's good to see soccer starting to get lots of kids playing in the younger age groups though, because they're going to be the future of american soccer. Hopefully it'll be fairly popular in the next 10 years or so. I think that if we had a succesful World Cup (maybe not a win, but somewhere close to the top) it would boost the popularity ofthe sport. I think it's kinda funny more people don't like it, cause it's a really action packed game, and involves so much more than lots of other sports (lots of teamwork, strategy, individual skills).
Brazil has an amazing team, but I kinda hope they don't win it, because they're just too good. It'd be cool to see more of an underdog win it. I would love it if England won, but I don't think they will. Argentina would also be good to see win. | | | | Posts: 975 | Location: Lafayette, Indiana | Registered: April 14, 2004 |
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| quote: Originally posted by Heliotrope:
Yeah, but always realize how much respect would be won here in the US if they did win. Soccer is getting much more popular in the US. The MLS has been around 10 years now, and it's going strong. More teams are getting their own stadiums, more teams are getting added. I know around here in the past 8 years or so soccer has become a lot more popular, we've had a team at our school for 5 now (still haven't had a very successful season at all, lol). It's good to see soccer starting to get lots of kids playing in the younger age groups though, because they're going to be the future of american soccer. Hopefully it'll be fairly popular in the next 10 years or so. I think that if we had a succesful World Cup (maybe not a win, but somewhere close to the top) it would boost the popularity ofthe sport. I think it's kinda funny more people don't like it, cause it's a really action packed game, and involves so much more than lots of other sports (lots of teamwork, strategy, individual skills).
Brazil has an amazing team, but I kinda hope they don't win it, because they're just too good. It'd be cool to see more of an underdog win it. I would love it if England won, but I don't think they will. Argentina would also be good to see win.
True, it would boost the popularity of the sport, but then it would be one more thing the whole world hates Americans. I too want to see England or Holland win. After Mexico that is.
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Alumnus
| Wait, is Australia actually a country in itself now?  | | | |
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| quote: Or hockey
That's cause no one outside of Canada cares about hockey, but on the inside, alot of ppl like me I'm sure don't care about it anymore either. | | | |
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| quote: Did the NHL ever get bakc up and running?
No, not for real at least. it really hasn't been "running" per se since 1967. | | | |
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| nah, i've hjad enough of the million dolalr babies crying about their salaries, and then saying they were misled by their union rep, **** em! i dont want them to ever get another cent or tv rating on my behalf. | | | |
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| That's cause all other sports draw fans, unlike the nhl outside of (and sometimes inside of) Canada. Sure an NFL player gets a huge salary compared to the nhler, but the NFL cap of 70 or so million is covered by their tv deal alone, not even accounting for the ticket sales, and though its less games, its also a hell of alot more fans at other sports. Basically it's like the pilots at Delta airlines, when the company did good, they got good salaries, when the company went down, they agreed to take a big pay cut, and sacrifice in order to keep the airline going. no one in the nhl, especially hacks like Gretzky ever wanted to do that, they've ruined the game as far as I'm concerned. | | | |
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| quote: That's cause all other sports draw fans, unlike the nhl outside of (and sometimes inside of) Canada. Sure an NFL player gets a huge salary compared to the nhler, but the NFL cap of 70 or so million is covered by their tv deal alone, not even accounting for the ticket sales, and though its less games, its also a hell of alot more fans at other sports. Basically it's like the pilots at Delta airlines, when the company did good, they got good salaries, when the company went down, they agreed to take a big pay cut, and sacrifice
Are you jewish? You complain about everything. Just do yourself and the us a favor and jump from that tall building. Its annoying that you hate everything that the world has to offer. Just Die, or keep it to yourself. God Damn!
"Don't Cry For Me I'm Already Dead."
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| Ferris: Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus and I'd still have to bum rides off of people.
(and no, I'm not Jewish, so stop giving them a bad name on my account) | | | |
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