Tons of people don't care about the NBA until the finals, or about the NFL until the playoffs, or about the NHL until the playoffs, or about college basketball until march madness. Probably more "bandwagon" fans in those categories than the amount of "bandwagon" fans for soccer at the world cup. There is a 52 page thread on this board dedicated to this year's EPL and a 44 page thread dedicated to our US Men's National Team that has been following our progress since game 1 of qualifying a couple years back. In general, the people who normally post about soccer on this board are also the same ones interested in the WC and the soccer talk stays in threads dedicated to soccer.

You'll notice that there is hardly ever any arguing over soccer on any of the other levels that people follow it at. The only time there is any sort of argument or flaming starts when other people come into a soccer thread or start a thread with the sole purpose of bashing soccer. I mean if making fun of one sport that you don't like makes you feel better about yourself then so be it.

But the fact remains that nearly all of the complaints the soccer-haters have about the game can be related to other sports as well or the fact that it is a different sport and you can't force it into the same mold as whatever your favorite sport is. You can argue it all you want, but it comes down to personal preference plain and simple. The thread seems more like people trying to justify to themselves why they don't like a certain sport.

and boohoo about soccer fans posting in your i hate soccer thread. let's face it, the only reason someone makes a thread like this in the first place is to argue with soccer fans, pat other soccer-haters on the ass, and then make it look like soccer fans are annoying you with all their soccer propaganda.

6/13/2010 8:55:24 PM

hahah. you soccer people are the easiest people to troll on the planet.

If half of you getting upset about this actually were this passionate about stuff that actually mattered in life, things might be looking up for the human race.

6/13/2010 8:58:57 PM

gotta love the wolf web. the easy out of anything is "lol you just got trolled."

If half of you getting upset about this actually were this passionate about stuff that actually mattered in life, things might be looking up for the human race.

see how easy that is?

6/13/2010 9:01:31 PM

yeah, cause all the other shit I said was really deep... i dunno, maybe it was to the soccer lovers...

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 9:02 PM. Reason : .]

6/13/2010 9:02:18 PM

and all the stuff I said in here was? ... i dunno, maybe it was to the soccer haters...

6/13/2010 9:03:08 PM

I'd rather watch kickball than soccer

6/13/2010 9:05:09 PM

oh come on TreeTwista10, you usually put more effort in your trolls than that. I'd expect more out of you

6/13/2010 9:06:04 PM

Nah man kickball is the shit

6/13/2010 9:07:14 PM

a professional kickball league would be awesome to watch

imagine the potential blooper reels and JACKED UP! clips from getting pegged with the ball in the face/nuts

6/13/2010 9:13:26 PM

only if they are allowed to drink during the game of course.

6/13/2010 9:15:30 PM

No doubt about it, kickball is a helluva lot better than soccer. That aint no trolling.

6/13/2010 9:16:00 PM

this thread makes me lololol.

6/13/2010 9:29:26 PM

trolled by a mod. classic.

Quote :

"haters only. everyone else gets a suspension."

LOLOLOLLLOLL.

6/13/2010 9:52:03 PM

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 10:14 PM. Reason : .]

6/13/2010 10:10:07 PM

ahhh yes, Jim Rome. the authority on all that is sports.

6/13/2010 10:16:07 PM

This really doesn't do much for the argument, but it's still a good read from famous football writer Peter King:

Quote :

"5. I think the best thing I can tell you about the World Cup, compared to American sports, is that it's about three times as intense as the Super Bowl. I was sitting in this mid-sized stadium (no press box, just a row near the top of the lower level, covered, outside), about 15 minutes before the game, with no teams on the field, no immediate promise of players coming out of the tunnel to take the field, and the vuvuzelas were trumpeting at maybe 90 decibels by themselves, and the fans were screaming and chanting to add maybe 20 more decibels, and I'm thinking, "There's no one in sight, and the anticipation is so ridiculous that these people are screaming themselves silly.'' It's no knock on the NFL. I love big games in the NFL. But this -- with games in 20 or so town squares on huge screens EVERY day of the World Cup, and the nation taking the month off to watch them (not in person, maybe, but on these screens or on TV) -- is some great sport right here. "

6/16/2010 2:23:04 PM

Jim Rome's "goatee" is fucking hideous.

6/16/2010 3:11:06 PM

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991933_1991952_1996968,00.html

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"In the U.S., no stupid horn is slowing the World Cup ratings. Through the first weekend of the tournament, covering eight matches, ESPN and ABC averaged some 4,247,000 viewers per match, up 80% versus the first eight matches of the 2006 World Cup. Saturday's United States-England game attracted about 17.1 million viewers between ABC and Univision, the Spanish-language network (this total includes 13 million viewers on ABC, and 4.1 million on Univision). The game was the most-watched opening round World Cup broadcast ever. The combined viewership of USA-England beat the ratings of the first six games of the NBA finals, which averaged 16.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen Sports (though the crucial Game 5 alone drew 18.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen). USA-England trounced the Stanley Cup finals, which averaged 5.2 million viewers. It even compared favorably to the average viewership for an NFL regular season broadcast, 18.4 million — though U.S.-England lagged the average viewership for an NFL playoff game, 36 million, by a very healthy margin."

RAWR RAWR RAWR

6/17/2010 11:04:48 AM

I think Jim Rome is the only tv/radio personality that I hate more than Colin Cowherd. And thats saying something

6/17/2010 11:57:19 AM

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"Jim Rome's "goatee" is fucking hideous."

dick target

6/17/2010 12:17:43 PM

I wonder if either Argentina or Greece score in this game, since the first 45 minutes contained a combined total of zero goals

I'm sure there were some great passes though...

6/22/2010 3:27:48 PM

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"because it is boring because these fuckers flop around and waste time because I feel it should be a little more difficult to wind up with a tied score because i feel it is a third world sport, and it becomes a first world problem when i am bombarded with it on my television because of the violent fans and violence towards players and coaches, and other fans...not a sport where i would take the kids on a nice weekend. who the hell thows bags of containing bodily humours in any other sport? because of the pathetic and arbitrary referring because I feel like its not a sport for adults or even adolescents to participate in because while it is athletic, i just dont see the skill, in fact i dont understand how trained soccer players can continue to miss the goal by 25 feet consistently or how they can just run past the ball as they are kicking it; also where is the skill in penalty kicking? I kick right or i kick left, maybe youll block to the right, or maybe youll block to the left...o no it doesnt matter dang it because i just missed the goal by 15 feet BECAUSE USA AINT #1"

6/22/2010 5:08:15 PM

i hate or whatever as well

6/22/2010 5:31:02 PM

Can they just get rid of offsides? Maybe there would be 1 goal scored in some of these games.

6/22/2010 7:21:43 PM

Uh, did you watch the Portugal/N. Korea game?

6/22/2010 7:26:46 PM

how many goals did North Korea score

6/22/2010 7:36:08 PM

God

I know your life is shit or whatever

But surely you can find something better to do with your time than getting trolled like a motherfuck all over TWW

6/22/2010 7:38:36 PM

somehow TT is the one being trolled in a thread where its his JOB to hate soccer?

i guess the human mind is a powerful thing, it thinks what it wants to think

Soccer hatin aint a sport...its a way of life! (more of a sport than soccer though)

[Edited on June 23, 2010 at 11:25 AM. Reason : g]

6/23/2010 11:24:55 AM

i hate soccer MUCH less when the US is playing

6/23/2010 11:43:08 AM

Quote :

"somehow TT is the one being trolled in a thread where its his JOB to hate soccer?"

read the post again, dumb fuck

6/23/2010 11:54:00 AM

Quote :

"i hate soccer MUCH less when the US is playing"

Less to do with soccer. More to do with patriotism.

Also it was awesome how the bullshit "super easy to understand" soccer offsides nearly wound up making it so that America didn't advance.

6/23/2010 11:56:30 AM

It's pretty easy to understand. That doesn't make it easy for the shitty refs to implement.

6/23/2010 12:00:14 PM

ha woops my bad man

6/23/2010 12:08:00 PM

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"Also it was awesome how the bullshit "super easy to understand" soccer offsides nearly wound up making it so that America didn't advance."

this could be said about every rule for every sport ever. poor officiating/bad calls are not unique to soccer. why would anyone even think that it is?

6/23/2010 12:09:56 PM

HEY SOCCER HATERS

EAT A FUCKING DICK

USA USA USA USA USA USA

GGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ESTADOS UNIDOS!!!!!

6/23/2010 12:33:00 PM

6/23/2010 2:30:01 PM

^in order for that to be accurate, that baby should have less ethnic ambiguity and should also be much fatter.

6/23/2010 2:31:07 PM

^ LOL nice!

6/23/2010 2:31:26 PM

and he should be eating mashed potatoes & gravy, i know i know

6/23/2010 2:44:02 PM

USA coach thinks the floppers should be punished! (calls out a player)

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/news/bradley-punish-the-floppers--fbintl_dw-flopping062510.html

6/25/2010 1:51:27 PM

that is definitely something I like about our team: we are hardly ever diving out there. We've been one of the hardest working, non-diva teams in the tournament so far. The closest we have to anyone diving has been Dempsey and really he is more at fault for embellishing legit fouls (and he has taken the grunt of a lot of nasty elbows and nasty tackles this tournament in general)

[Edited on June 25, 2010 at 2:03 PM. Reason : ]

6/25/2010 2:00:44 PM

Well, at least now we can get back to fun and entertaining sports .

6/26/2010 5:09:35 PM

not until october

6/26/2010 5:24:02 PM

yeah fuck soccer


this shit was really bothering me during my CWS pregaming and watching SC for the 3rd time in a day

6/26/2010 5:25:37 PM

^^ you have your schedule wrong, NFL starts early Sept... if you count training camps, which I for one do, it starts now.

6/26/2010 5:28:06 PM

MIN vs. CAR from Finland: 102 days 19 hours 28 minutes

[Edited on June 26, 2010 at 5:32 PM. Reason : ]

6/26/2010 5:31:40 PM

^ that

6/26/2010 5:46:23 PM

fuck soccer. Ghana.

6/26/2010 5:47:36 PM

I think the reason the US hates soccer so much is because of what happens when a team tries to protect a lead...its like every one on the winning team turns into france during war time

6/26/2010 6:24:20 PM

[Edited on June 26, 2010 at 6:27 PM. Reason : durp]

6/26/2010 6:27:19 PM