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new soccer will break every 15 minutes.
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"Scooby" wrote in message oups.com... You left out one major reason: Football runs 45-minutes uninterrupted each half. Try selling that to the networks who are used to ad breaks every three minutes. You must be kidding. Football has regular TV timeouts. Sabu |
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More important, why is baseball, the slowest team sport on the world. so
popular? In the average game the ball is in play only about 7 minutes. Sabu |
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:13:31 GMT, "Robert Morrisette"
wrote: "Scooby" wrote in message roups.com... You left out one major reason: Football runs 45-minutes uninterrupted each half. Try selling that to the networks who are used to ad breaks every three minutes. You must be kidding. Football has regular TV timeouts. More of the world agres with him than with you. [FU set] -- James Farrar September's coming soon |
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Robert Morrisette ) has kindly taken time out
from organising some kind of mutiny of preverts to say... "Scooby" wrote in message oups.com... You left out one major reason: Football runs 45-minutes uninterrupted each half. Try selling that to the networks who are used to ad breaks every three minutes. You must be kidding. Football has regular TV timeouts. Everyone's a comedian. [f'ups set] -- "I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more." (attributed to Dorothy Parker) Web: http://donotuselifts.net/ Email: m [dot] gallagher [at] student [dot] canberra [dot] edu [dot] au |
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"Robert Morrisette" writes:
More important, why is baseball, the slowest team sport on the world. so popular? Because so many people like it. Also, cricket. Des |
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"stonej" wrote in message oups.com... Lack of scoring is only part of the problem for the lack of popularity of soccer and hockey in the US. Both sports have a helter skelter look and feel to them with possession of the ball or puck changing so quickly that it is hard to make any sense over what is going on. As a Brit who's not a big sports fan but will watch the occational "soccer" came I would like to comment on two of the US's favourite past times. Baseball: i have seen one baseball game live in my life. The Atlanta Braves vrs the Yankees at Yankee stadium. We got there at the top of the second with a 0-0 score. Two and half hours later it was about 4-2 to the Braves and only in the bottom of the 7th.....bored ****less we all left. the most exciting thing about the game was when the guys came out at half time to sweep the gravel on the diamond and did a little dance....oh yeah and our discussion about how Major League made baseball look so much more exciting. Football: or as we brits call it "American Football" (we call Soccer football - coz you actually use your feet a lot) Now I've never mustered the courage to go to a live game but from what I've seen on TV you get about 3 minutes of actuall play in about 4 hours....which is pretty ****. Soccer (or Football as it's known to most ofthe world) has a much bigger following, the World Cup is actually contested between people from all around the world - unlike baseball's - the game had 90minutes of action and 90 minutes of action is what you get. It's a very fast paced but still very strategic game where more skill of being able to run with the ball at your feet, conrolling it and being able to hit a small target very quickly while avoiding other players is needed and not the luck involved in being able to just managed to dodge a tackle of hit that one ball harder than the last guy. Soccer is hands down the better game, much more enjoyable and I'd say it equates to watching the season finale of 24 vrs watching the season finale of 7th heaven If you watch football or basketball it is easy to see the strategy as the ball is advanced. Soccer is much more about team strategy, about breaking through a line and being fast while still controling the ball and able to hit a small target, it's not so much about fooling the other team or having one strong player in the team, with Soccer the adage of "your only as good as your weakest player" is really true as you need the whole team to succeed. You can't stop every couple of minutes to change strategy, it has to be done in advance or on the spot as your playing, you need to be much more of a cohesive unit. I really do recomend watching a couple of games - most american sports fans would enjoy it a lot if they gave it a chance as it's far more exciting than baseball or football. a 0-0 draw doesn't happen too often and it's all part of the game. The way the leagues are structured draws are important and when your not in a league situation and into a playoff type game then draws turn into sudden death 30 minute time added on and then a sudden death penalty shoot out - and theres nothing more exciting in an important competative match than that happening. Now I know there is strategy with both hockey and soccer but it just doesn't translate well to an American audience for some reason. Americans are are all slow and half-tards? |
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In article ,
Major ChrisB wrote: As a Brit who's not a big sports fan but will watch the occational "soccer" came I would like to comment on two of the US's favourite past times. Baseball: i have seen one baseball game live in my life. The Atlanta Braves vrs the Yankees at Yankee stadium. We got there at the top of the second with a 0-0 score. Two and half hours later it was about 4-2 to the Braves and only in the bottom of the 7th.....bored ****less we all left. the most exciting thing about the game was when the guys came out at half time to sweep the gravel on the diamond and did a little dance....oh yeah and our discussion about how Major League made baseball look so much more exciting. As a (mostly) Canadian who grew up in England, I think if you're going to diss baseball, you can't ignore cricket! (:-)) I was forced to *play* the bloody game at school. Talk about being bored out of one's mind... ['Course it didn't help that I was pretty hopeless at it.] Fortunately I soon escaped to the tennis set. (And Fives in the winter instead of equally unpleasant Rugby. Fives? .. Like handball, except that the ball is more like a teeny tiny baseball. Great game, though.] Football: or as we brits call it "American Football" (we call Soccer football - coz you actually use your feet a lot) Now I've never mustered the courage to go to a live game but from what I've seen on TV you get about 3 minutes of actuall play in about 4 hours....which is pretty ****. Agree totally on this one. Can't stand the game. [...] Soccer is hands down the better game, much more enjoyable and I'd say it equates to watching the season finale of 24 vrs watching the season finale of 7th heaven Agreed, but I like *playing* soccer even more! a 0-0 draw doesn't happen too often and it's all part of the game. The 'low-scoring' argument people make against soccer, I just don't get. Beaseball scores can be just as low [except for last night's 16-0 blowout by the A's over the Giants! (:-)]. And American Football scores are only high because so many points arrive in a lump. Basketball is almost the reverse because it's the *missed* baskets that are significant; otherwise each team seems to score almost every time they have the ball. Now I know there is strategy with both hockey and soccer but it just doesn't translate well to an American audience for some reason. Americans are are all slow and half-tards? Nah... it's almost entirely the 'Not_Invented-Here' thing. And the fact that the nets can't insert all those commercials easily. (But most kids play the game, so all hope is not lost.) -- Pete -- -- ================================================== ========================== The address in the header is a Spam Bucket -- don't bother replying to it... (If you do need to email, replace the account name with my true name.) ================================================== ========================== |
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Americans are generally not bright. They like to see scoring. It's
why they ruined baseball- by making the fields smaller, making the ball differently so it travels farther. Soccer is a beautiful game to most of the rest of the world. It's where scoring is still a special moment that is savored by the fans as well as the players. Americans don't get this. They have short attention spans. They actually want to see commercials as well- that way they can get up from the couch and get another bag of Cheetos and a big gulp Mountain Dew (which is an appetizer for dinner: two giant Dominos pizzas with everything on it and cheese stuffed into the crust-- and more Mountain Dew... and nachos). No one in the world tries to retool its sports more than the U.S. Because the owners are accountants and have no idea what sports are all about. It's why the NFL is now unwatchable, baseball is horrible, the NBA is barely a sport anymore, and hockey is a nightmare. All of these sports were once great. But they were ruined by greed. In the rest of the world soccer is left alone- because it is perfect. |
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On 27 Jun 2005 16:20:45 -0700, "rst" wrote:
In the rest of the world soccer is left alone- because it is perfect. Perfectly lame. If any sport needs tweaking, it would be the sport where there's a very good chance the final score will be 0-0. |
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