I'd like to see more bloodsport, myself.
Don't care for most sports. Though I do enjoy a good jousting match while chugging mead and munching on a roasted turkey leg. (I suspect the mead has something to do with the degree of enjoyment. Maybe I should try that at other sporting events.)
hell a good tankard of mead and a big juicy roast turkey leg will even make golf seem like a sport.
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Don't care for most sports. Though I do enjoy a good jousting match while chugging mead and munching on a roasted turkey leg. (I suspect the mead has something to do with the degree of enjoyment. Maybe I should try that at other sporting events.)
HERE, HERE!!! I propose all sporting events be eradicated and replaced with proper games of jousting, fencing, duels, and other high fracas of the like, and the mass creation and distribution of Meade, Ale, and wines be increased verily!
That doth have a nice sound about it....
Maybe it is because I am a bit long in the tooth; but all this new soccer excitement is just wierd; I dont give a fig about soccer; when did this become big in the U.S? seems weird; but then; I am big into hockey and that isnt very primetime; but soccer; sheesh; to me seems slow and boring.
I know some of you love it; no prob; love it all you want, to each his own; was just wondering if anyone else out there doesnt care for soccer either; going to the games are bit insane; lot of rude people; but not as bad as at a softball game in this country; overseas peeps get killing crazy about soccer; just plain wierd. Sometimes the only times Americans overseas are thought of in a good light is at a soccer game; because we just root for our team and dont try to kill the opposing team or fans; wierdness.
Soccer is cool, especially the girls teams. I love to watch them play. :)
I think that when the US women's team won the world (and what's her name pulled off her shirt...) cup it was good for the sport in the US. Not because she pulled off her shot but rather because the US team was so superior to most of the competition that it was easy for inexperienced spectators to recognize plays develop. IMO, in a typical men's game it is difficult for an inexperienced fan tlo pick up on such things because the parity and defense stifles the recognitionclear plays, especially when coupled with the speed of the game.
I don't mind low scores but nothing pisses me off more then diving. Nothing turns my stomach more then a grown man rolling on the ground like his leg's been broken just to draw a penalty.
Again referring to the US women's team that won the cup a few years back, that team lost out on so many penalties because they were conditioned to play hard and play through whatever came their way. That is another reason I liked watching them.
There is my two cents.
Haven't heard much on it lately, but I watched a show where Italians are getting into American Football, and other European countries looking at expanding American Football in their countries. Not that I'm into any kind of sports, but American Football is at least interesting - more like combat than other sports. I'd like to see more Europeans playing American football then to ever watch soccer at all.
GP
Ok; hehe; I will bite that hook, hmm can you explain that please?
I enjoy soccer for the same reasons I enjoy role playing games.
It's escapism. I can push the worries of my daily life out of mind for a few hours and focus on this little box (not the t.v., but the game itself). There is order in the seeming chaos. There is an appeal to my tactical mind in both; combat in role playing games and, in soccer, the rules of the game. Some plays in soccer come out like a well choreographed dance, much like a well executed plan in role playing games. I can root for a hero and boo for a villain.
And for some reason I can not explain, when 'my' team wins or my character succeeds, I feel a sense of accomplishment. It know it is absurd, I have not accomplished anything but sitting on my butt for a few hours. Still…there it is.
I care about soccer, but only when I play it with my godson/nephew.
I care about soccer, but only when I play it with my godson/nephew.
Speaking of caring, do you have one sister or two?
I care about soccer, but only when I play it with my godson/nephew.Speaking of caring, do you have one sister or two?
One. Why do you ask?
It's escapism. I can push the worries of my daily life out of mind for a few hours and focus on this little box (not the t.v., but the game itself). There is order in the seeming chaos. There is an appeal to my tactical mind in both; combat in role playing games and, in soccer, the rules of the game. Some plays in soccer come out like a well choreographed dance, much like a well executed plan in role playing games. I can root for a hero and boo for a villain.
And for some reason I can not explain, when 'my' team wins or my character succeeds, I feel a sense of accomplishment. It know it is absurd, I have not accomplished anything but sitting on my butt for a few hours. Still…there it is.
"Escapes" all over CourtFool.
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Haven't heard much on it lately, but I watched a show where Italians are getting into American Football, and other European countries looking at expanding American Football in their countries. Not that I'm into any kind of sports, but American Football is at least interesting - more like combat than other sports. I'd like to see more Europeans playing American football then to ever watch soccer at all.
GP
Football is one of the few sports I follow regularly. Partly because my team, the New Orleans Saints, just won the Superbowl. Partly because LSU, another hometown team, is usually on TV during the season, so I can watch them and get a taste of home. Partly because there are a lot of football fans here at work. And, partly because I enjoy the hell out of it sometimes.
Wonder no more.
Huzzah! Of course, we could be philosophical about it....
** spoiler omitted **
We're like those dudes in the Forgotten Realms!
I don't care. I don't care so much, that I don't even care that I don't care.
What are you guys talking about again?
I don't care. I don't care so much, that I don't even care that I don't care.Yeah, we were discussing the philosophical aspects of our not caring last night.
I was slaughtering Sinspawn with your brother last night. It went well. :^D
I might give a tiny little mote about football, which is a tiny little mote more than every other sport. But I'm not a fan, either. The whole country is insane - My country's team* will play Argentina's in 10 minutes, and the streets are just dead outside.
I'm pretty sure the country's not alone in this madness.
Anyway, I'll know when "we" have won when, in two hours or so, every idiot with a car will be driving around honking like a maniac. I guess I'll know that "we" lost when there's no honking, and maybe people stumbling around on the streets, crying like little kids.
Nothing against being a fan, but let's not overdo it.
*I'm not saying "We're playing Argentina" because I realise that I'm not part of that team, and their performance is in no way related to mine. A lot of people seem to be oblivious of that fact, or wilfully ignore it. To those I must say: "Get real! THEY play. YOU watch!"
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What are you guys talking about again?
Hi Pat! We're discussing the philosophical aspects of our not caring about soccer, and the balancing affect it has on the world.
For example, ponder this:
If a soccer player kicked a ball through a forest, and the majority of the United States ignored it, would soccer fans still riot?
It's things like this that keep me awake at work.
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I don't care for soccer, or for any competitive sport actually. In my country however, only 12% of the population avoids soccer. The other 88% are running around and getting arrested in orange dresses. (Can you guess what country I live in?)
The thing I hate the most about soccer is that so many people waste their time and enthusiasm by obsessing about the athletic achievements of people they don't even know, while they could direct that time, enthusiasm and obsessive nature on making the world a better place.
Furthermore, I hate the way children are indoctrinated in the ways of soccer. I know a dad who allows his son to stay up for an ''important'' soccer game. These days kids get to watch the world cup at school. Can't they just let these kids choose for themselves whether or not they like soccer?
Oh well, bread and games...
AZ: The people who maintain the balance. FR, or is it Dragonlance? I mean, I don't care that much, but I care more than I do about soccer. I'm True Neutral, man.
Heh-heh. Corn and games.
I loath football. It isn't like other sports, to which i am merely indifferent, save when it gives me an excuse to tease my few australian friends. But Football drives me to distraction with hatred. I think it comes from having been forced to play, watch and 'support the house and school teams' it at school. Drives me potty with infuration and boredom.
Add to that the fact that football fans are in fact massive geeks, and utterly boring. Going to a work and hearing three blokes blend casual racism, sexism and homophobia into a convosation about football has all the appeal of sitting on the toilet while some one you have just met, and who utterly lacks any charisma at all, tries to tell you about their awesome epic level paladin through the toilet door, while your trying to get on.
And these 'normal people' talk about it, week in, week out, with the kind of obsessive tendancies when your average roleplayer is confronted with says, 'hey bob...maybe your playing to much.'
Screams and bangs head against the wall.
I don't wanna hear any more about bloody capelo, ronnie or the rest of the over payed wankers...it offends me that they are so ubiquitous within this countries culture that even i know their names.
Football?
Aw, football has NOTHING to do with soccer.
It's a real sport for real men.
It's SO much more AWESOME!
Football?
Aw, football has NOTHING to do with soccer.
It's a real sport for real men.
It's SO much more AWESOME!
As for american football...
Seriously...your kidding me...you put on armour...to play rugby... wrong...and you stop playing every 30 seconds... yeah...real men..and interesting too. *smirks*
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Hey the episode with the Dr, the real one not the Johnny Depp upstart, showed he could play fairly well.
I know why Americans hate the sport, and it is not just the low scoring. It is the defensive playing and lack of star players, rather star teams that is fairly sad and limits its effectiveness to fantasy games.
...to play rugby...Rugby? Is that another one of those sports that pretends to be real football?
Hellz yeah.
Football?
Aw, football has NOTHING to do with soccer.
It's a real sport for real men.
It's SO much more AWESOME!As for american football...
Seriously...your kidding me...you put on armour...to play rugby... wrong...and you stop playing every 30 seconds... yeah...real men..and interesting too. *smirks*
I don't mind American Football - its like chess with people. Its not about the action it about set pieces and how well the players execute the coaches tactics. Go the Redskins....
Rugby ((Union not League)Go the Wallabies and the Waratahs)) is my favourite. Unfortunatley it also has a lot of stoppages (not as many as American footbal) becuse the rules are so arcane.
Any way you Poms are responsible for slowing the game down so that you can capitalise on your only advantage Johnny Bloody Wilkinson.
If it was left to us and the Kiwis it would be a spectacular running game rather than a kicking game.
Pom? What's a Pom?
From the Urban Dictionary:
Australian insult for an Englishman.
Came from the beginning of the country, when the Englishmen got very badly sunburnt whilst sunbathing, turning their skin a similar colour of a Pomegranite, an exotic red fruit.
The best guess at this time is that "pommy" was based on the word "pomegranate" -- either because the redness of the fruit supposedly matched the typically florid British complexion, or because (like "Johnny Grant" - Jimmy Grant, surely?) it was used as rhyming slang for "immigrant."
-- snopes.com
I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own earth.
-- Monty Python
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Pom? What's a Pom?From the Urban Dictionary:
Australian insult for an Englishman.
Came from the beginning of the country, when the Englishmen got very badly sunburnt whilst sunbathing, turning their skin a similar colour of a Pomegranite, an exotic red fruit.The best guess at this time is that "pommy" was based on the word "pomegranate" -- either because the redness of the fruit supposedly matched the typically florid British complexion, or because (like "Johnny Grant" - Jimmy Grant, surely?) it was used as rhyming slang for "immigrant."
-- snopes.com
I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own earth.-- Monty Python
Interesting.
What's the Aussie slang for American?Yank?
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Pom? What's a Pom?From the Urban Dictionary:
Australian insult for an Englishman.
Came from the beginning of the country, when the Englishmen got very badly sunburnt whilst sunbathing, turning their skin a similar colour of a Pomegranite, an exotic red fruit.The best guess at this time is that "pommy" was based on the word "pomegranate" -- either because the redness of the fruit supposedly matched the typically florid British complexion, or because (like "Johnny Grant" - Jimmy Grant, surely?) it was used as rhyming slang for "immigrant."
-- snopes.com
I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own earth.-- Monty Python
Interesting.
What's the Aussie slang for American?
Yank?
Thems Fightin' words!
Pom? What's a Pom?From the Urban Dictionary:
Australian insult for an Englishman.
Came from the beginning of the country, when the Englishmen got very badly sunburnt whilst sunbathing, turning their skin a similar colour of a Pomegranite, an exotic red fruit.The best guess at this time is that "pommy" was based on the word "pomegranate" -- either because the redness of the fruit supposedly matched the typically florid British complexion, or because (like "Johnny Grant" - Jimmy Grant, surely?) it was used as rhyming slang for "immigrant."
-- snopes.com
I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own earth.-- Monty Python
Interesting.
What's the Aussie slang for American?
Yank?
Seppo (please note: we say it in a friendly joking kinda way)
Shortening of rhyming Slang for Americans - as septic tank rhymes with yank, but Americans are also full of s&@* like septic tanks
This seppo would not shut up about NFL last week
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Pom? What's a Pom?From the Urban Dictionary:
Australian insult for an Englishman.
Came from the beginning of the country, when the Englishmen got very badly sunburnt whilst sunbathing, turning their skin a similar colour of a Pomegranite, an exotic red fruit.The best guess at this time is that "pommy" was based on the word "pomegranate" -- either because the redness of the fruit supposedly matched the typically florid British complexion, or because (like "Johnny Grant" - Jimmy Grant, surely?) it was used as rhyming slang for "immigrant."
-- snopes.com
I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own earth.-- Monty Python
Interesting.
What's the Aussie slang for American?
Yank?Seppo (please note: we say it in a friendly joking kinda way)
Shortening of rhyming Slang for Americans - as septic tank rhymes with yank, but Americans are also full of s~*! like septic tanks
This seppo would not shut up about NFL last week
Wow glad I am not a Yankee.