You might want to consider that the US won the Women’s World Cup most recently, dear sweet (but woefully ignorant) merlin. So you’re going to tell me that they don’t play it as well as the teams they gasp beat? My fucking ass.
The entire world is not wrong. YOU are wrong. Maybe instead of mocking American sports you should try to understand them.
And this:
Is Not Done. There’s this thing called trolling. You don’t do it. Not if you want to post here, anyway.
Assuming you are referring to the sport properly called “soccer,” it sure isn’t the most popular sport in Canada. It’s not the most popular sport in Japan. It’s not the most popular sport in the Dominican Republic. There ARE exceptions, you know. And the majority is not always right, by the way.
I take this to mean that you admit you are an idiot.
Yes?
Well I’m glad we got that straight.
I’m confused as to why you’re limiting it to American sports. Unless you know the players, I don’t understand why anyone would watch sports. The concept just doesn’t land with me.
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[sub]soccer is exciting, baseball is boring[/sub]
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The FIFA world rankings are a strange thing and do not reflect the national abilities all that well.
I’d agree to a large extent with the top four but after that it gets somewhat weird, I mean Paraguay at nine ?Czech Republic at 6 ? Where the hell is Holland (10)and Denmark(not shown) ?
The rankings are based on results within regions, but of course any national team who plays in the European group has a far harder time of it than one in a less salubrious group.
In truth Wales are not a bad side at all, but they have had to play most of the greatest teams in the world so it is hardly surprising they dont win too many games.
Some of the rankings seem arbitary or at least pragmatic, the system for relative rankings is currently poor, with emergent African nation teams being ranked higher than well established European ones.
Its not just how many games you win, its who you play that counts.
FIFA conveniently ignores this, possibly to try and promote soccer in countries where either there is lots of money or some sort of kudos.
You want to talk sports? Americans love sports enough to turn baseball, football, and basketball each into billion dollar franchises. We’ve got third string waterboys who make more than the combined salaries of everyone on Manchester United and the cost of their stadium combined. We’ve got enough sports to choke an Australian. We get so many gold medals at the Olympics, we give 'em away free with boxes of Wheaties. What have you got besides soccer? Cricket? That’s not a sport, that’s a form of euthanasia. Frankly, I don’t see how you can be in any position to make comparisons, seeing as you’re apparently too busy brutalizing other sports fans for the game itself to actually penetrate your beer-sodden brain. Do us all a favor and go choke to death on your own vomit.
Jodi: this troll is Welsh, they don’t have a cricket team as such (although they have a county side, Glamorgan and any good Welsh players play for England eg Robert ‘Blobby’ Croft, the non-spinning spinner)
[Note to Merlin: please go away, the last thing we need is more morons like you who have no ability to substantiate an argument other then to say “I don’t like it, therefore it’s boring and pointless”. Fuckwit.]
You say that like it’s a good thing…
All comes out of your pocket buddy.
As this guy’s Welsh, rugby springs to mind.
People like different sports, it’s both a personal and cultural thing. There’s just no mileage in flogging this rigour mortice ridden horse any further. IMO;)
What I don’t understand about American sports is the affection Americans have for their local team that is anything but local. How can someone living in Atlanta, Georgia root for the Atlanta Braves when only one member of the team is actually from Atlanta.
I guess it has something to do with America’s clothing logo fetish. “See my clothes? I root for Dallas Cowboys and Calvin Klein!”
There ought to be a law, a team can only get its players from within its geographical area. (And no Dick Cheney or Hillary Clinton moving ploys a week before spring training.)
“There’s just no mileage in flogging this rigour mortice ridden horse any further. IMO”
You got your sports, I got mine.
I like playing sports, enough to have once made it to the national team in one and to have once made a living teaching in another. But just as much as I enjoy playing sports, I fail to see the connection to why people enjoy watching sports.
I don’t mind watching some sports, provided that something is actually happening, whereas other sports I am unable to watch without falling asleep because so much time is spent with nothing happening.
I truly dislike statistics. They make my head hurt. When someone asks me why I find a particular sport dull, I find they usually explain their own enjoyment in terms of statistics, be it win/loss, speed, or whatever. Nothing could be less enticing to me.
With baseball, nothing much happens for most of the time. With American football, nothing much happens for much of the time. With cricket something involving a silly-on is reported to have happened once in 1898 in Tudmortonshropshirwich-by-the-Downs, but since then has been forgotten over the annals of time. These sports have the same effect on me as do sleeping draughts. The drone of the announcer and the colour commentator simply assist in sending me off to the land of nod.
So here is my inflamitory position on many major televised sports fans: too many of you are a bunch of bean counters who have lost the excitement and beauty of sports in the staistics.
Get up off your behinds, turn off the tele, and go play outside. Play something. Play anything. Just stop being a sports fan and start being an athlete. And I don’t mean wandering about a baseball diamond or bowling alley for an hour followed by two hours in a bar with your team mates. I mean get out there and get sweaty, and don’t come home until you are so tired that you can hardly stand.
And when you do finally arrive home, feel free to turn on the cultural assimilator to you favourite sports show, and join me in falling fast asleep to the soothing sounds of the network drone.
I guess we Americans are just more tolerant and open-minded about people from different regions. Perhaps the Brits shouldn’t be so segregational. 
I think that should just about wrap it up. The OP was a troll, and has been reprimanded by staff and posters alike. I’m closing this sorry excuse for a thread.
Lynn