# Soccer vs. Football: Which one will comet dominate as the biggest spectator sport?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-vs-football-which-one-will-comet-dominate-as-the-biggest-spectator-sport/580803>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 5, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-vs-football-which-one-will-comet-dominate-as-the-biggest-spectator-sport/580803 "2011-05-05T03:36:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-vs-football-which-one-will-comet-dominate-as-the-biggest-spectator-sport/580803/81 "2011-05-06T19:17:35Z")

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Ah, yes, I remember this attitude from ninth grade. Anything that’s insufficiently homoerotic is thereby deemed to be “gay”.

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**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-vs-football-which-one-will-comet-dominate-as-the-biggest-spectator-sport/580803/82 "2011-05-06T19:34:53Z")

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> [@Rondembo](#):
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> Football is BBQ ribs - masculine, mainstream, liked by patriotic red-meat star and striples loving rugged individualists, big and full of exciting flavors, for large men who like protein and build muscles through weigh training.

And the rub-down Rondembo, don’t forget the rub-down and the towel games And the wrestling in the showers.

mmmmm, oh yeah! “big and full of exciting flavours”…oh christ yes! bloody hell I’ve got the jesters shoes here.

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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soccer-vs-football-which-one-will-comet-dominate-as-the-biggest-spectator-sport/580803/83 "2011-05-06T19:45:04Z")

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Since the OP has been banned and the discussion is pretty much about his responses on the issue, I’m closing this thread.

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