I honestly don't see why the guy still lives in Portland. All he ever does on here is go out of his way to bash anything, never tries to givemuch reason why either. Just, "oh I am stuck in Portland and since I am everything around here sucks just as bad as my life."
This is dude's response:Originally Posted by FIRST B0RN
Nobody is dismissing anything, relax. Of course the majority of people in here aren't going to mention soccer. In America as a whole we could give a rats %$$ about it, let alone follow it for another country.Originally Posted by SinnerP
@ some of the NTers... don't dismiss a rivalry simply because you don't know the specifics about that particular sport.
I think I speak for 95% of the people on NT, but EVERY OTHER TEAM SPORT>>>>SOCCER
Therefore, NO, whatever you just posted is NOT the best rivalry in sports.
If that's not a dismissal I don't know what is. Except maybe ignorance. I really don't care if most people don't mention or followsoccer, but if you are going to blatantly disagree with someone at least come through with some knowledge.
Unrelated, but the You are the Quarry pic is one of my all-time favorite pictures.
First off, I have never heard any duck or beaver fan claim it to be on par with Mich vs OSU and other such rivalries, I think what you hear arepeople saying that to Oregonians it is as big a deal to them as an OSU Michigan rivalry is to their fans. What game do you expect the local radio to talkabout? The Civil War is huge here and it is looking to have major BCS implications this year. I know there are some serious homers in this state, but you getthe same in EVERY sports city.Its not just Portland.Originally Posted by CP1708
What do you two call each other on the phone and tell the other one what threads I'm in?I thought I'd have at least a little while before you found this.
It ain't even you two. I'm talking about the people at work, or on the radio that try to compare this game to Ohio St (sorry Ches) vs Michigan, or Texas/Oklahoma, stuff like that. People would never EVER get away with that stuff on NT, but you hear it on the radio all the damn time. So this is me fighting the good fight.
This guy speaks the truth, you guys can dismiss soccer completely and talk all you want about how intense American rivalries are but in the endthe most that will happen is a couple nasty words are thrown out and/or a drunken fistfight here and there. In Soccer rivalries in Europe and South Americathere are murders before and after games, I can't tell you how many times a team has been disqualified or has had points deducted from them in theArgentine tournament because their fans murdered a fan from another team.
thin line between intense and stupid when it comes to soccerOriginally Posted by Carlos Tevez
Soccer rivalry put all other North America rivalries to shame.
As already mentioned, Celtic/Rangers and River/Boca is INTENSE. I dont think anyone here has mentioned AC Milan/Inter as well as one of the most dangerous...Fenerbahce/Galatasary. I saw a tv show back in the summer about how crazy the Fener/Galatasary rivalry is. Dudes actually kill each other over soccer in Turkey. They were also talking about Fenerbahce hooligan who beat up a Galatasary fan and then raped him in a graveyard
This guy speaks the truth, you guys can dismiss soccer completely and talk all you want about how intense American rivalries are but in the end the most that will happen is a couple nasty words are thrown out and/or a drunken fistfight here and there. In Soccer rivalries in Europe and South America there are murders before and after games, I can't tell you how many times a team has been disqualified or has had points deducted from them in the Argentine tournament because their fans murdered a fan from another team.
