Italy is always boring...

> Khaz Modan wrote:

> The reason soccer wont be popular in america? Not enough padding to protect themselves from coming into contact with the ground...

lol at Soccer.

Rugby is a proper sport.

Soccer players fall over because of random gusts of wind and then after hitting the ground roll over 3 times clutching their face.

heck half the players should be up for the Olympics diving competition.

in basketball a successful dive gets you 2 pts best case scenario. while typical basketball games have what, like 120-180 pts. in soccer a successful dive gets you a goal. while typically soccer games have 1-5 goals.... thats why basketball can be a successful spectator sport in the US and soccer cannot; the reward of a goal from a dive is way larger then the reward for a dive in basketball... in basketball you're looking at 1/60th to 1/90gh of the game pts from a successful dive, in soccer its 100% to 1/5th of the goals from a game can be scored from a single dive...

> Commander Christ wrote:

> So basicly, the problem lies with a problematic attention span or a lack of patience?

no, it lies in games being decided by flops.

that would take us back to problematic attention span and/or lack of patience (with the spectators)

avo's our devil's advocate anytime, anywhere, on any subject we should cut him some slack (or not xD)

> avogadro wrote:

> in basketball a successful dive gets you 2 pts best case scenario. while typical basketball games have what, like 120-180 pts. in soccer a successful dive gets you a goal. while typically soccer games have 1-5 goals.... thats why basketball can be a successful spectator sport in the US and soccer cannot; the reward of a goal from a dive is way larger then the reward for a dive in basketball... in basketball you're looking at 1/60th to 1/90gh of the game pts from a successful dive, in soccer its 100% to 1/5th of the goals from a game can be scored from a single dive...<<

1. NBA dives more often.
2. You get a personal foul on an opposing team member and he only gets 5 before he's benched for the game.

If you can get 2 pts on the Lakers, bench Kobe Bryant, and run down the clock in the 4th quarter of game 5, that's a big deal, almost as big as a goal in a game that lets you advance with a tie.

we obviously have a great deal of patience to watch people hit 14 foul balls in a row.

then the commentators earn their pay.

"2-2 pitch, fouled away.  Gregson is a graduate of Stanton, with a 4.5 in engineering.  2-2 pitch, fouled away.  He may be best known for not getting along at all with A-Rod. 2-2 pitch, foul.  They were fishing on Puget Sound last spring, and Gregson put a bomb in A-Rods boat.  2-2 pitch...checking the first base umpire...foul.  A-Rod rode the boat to the bottom, walked along the seafloor onto the beach, looked Gregson in the eye and said, "Don't do that again."  2-2 pitch---popped up---Walker's going after---lands foul."

It's stupid that you would take your shirt off knowing that there is a punishment

I only saw about 20mins of New Zealand Vs Slovenia earlier, it wasn't great. Watched a bit of Brazil Vs North Korea. I thought North Korea were going to hold out and do it but once Brazil managed to score I didn't care anymore (North Korea weren't exactly going to equalise:P).

Wtf happened to the ball for Brazil's first goal though? He didn't put any spin on it to make it curl and it moved a mile.

All whites!!!! SD you muppet the NZ game was awesome though i might be one sided...

i like MMA or prize fighting i can watch... thats the only sport that is exiting... the rest have become blase, unless you play them...