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Wrong, Dr. Naismith was canadian. And baseball has got to be the most boring sport. How is it fun to watch some men to swing a bat and miss a majority of the times? I have no clue.Originally Posted by Rondembo
First of all nobody hates a sport for no reason, there are lot of sports we Americans find boring, from rugby to cricket to volleyball to handball to tennis...etc. Yet none of these get the same hateful reaction from the mainstream white (non-hispanic) male sport fan. The thing that hold soccer back in this country is the same thing that prevented the metric system from supplanting ourcustomary system of weights and measures in the 1970’s: It is seen asan unnecessary foreign intrusion. After all, we Americans inventedthree great spectator sports: football, baseball, and basketball. Wedon’t need to import an inferior third world spectator sport from abroad, even ifthe rest of the world likes it. Or maybe because the rest of the worldlikes it. Indeed, the American rejection of both soccer and the metricsystem represents a healthy spirit of patriotic defiance. Notice how most soccer haters tend to be very patriotic and have a strong love of America and see Europe as a sissy country.Originally Posted by Big J 33
You're making it seem as if soccer fans are the only ones who are defensive about their sport. I imagine you (or at least a huge amount of baseball fans), would defend their sport and argue against those calling it boring. You're the minority in the case of soccer... congrats, you watch it and still don't like it. But if you polled the casual American sports fan, those who dislike soccer HATE the sport for no real reason, and I would bet a good majority of them haven't watched it with regularity and understand how the game works. Meanwhile, even if they dislike baseball or basketball, American fans will at least have a better knowledge of those games because they're exposed to it more often. People hate soccer because A. they see it as wussy and not "American" or B. they don't understand the sport and don't have the access to get itOriginally Posted by dland24
As a sports fan who dislikes soccer, I am actually offended by this line of thought that it seems most soccer fans have. You just assume that all people who dislike the sport dont have an understanding of the sport. Now of course there are going to be people like OP, but people like me (someone who watches 2+ soccer games a week) are always lumped in the same category as he is. I just dont get it. Generall speaking, soccer fans get so offended when people dislike their sport, that they automatically dismiss the person making the claim. Its ALWAYS like this.
And for the record, YES, I totally agree with you that soccer is so much more than kicking a ball around. But it is probably the easiest sport to understand, and I dont see how this is debatable. There are far less rules in soccer than any other sport. If you took a guy who has never watched a single sport in his life, and he watched 1 entire game of soccer, baseball, basketball and football, that guy would probably think he knew the most about soccer. (basketball a close second).
Should you really be surprised soccer fans are more defensive? They'll get more flack than the other four major sports in the US, people are quicker to dismiss the sport so it shouldn't be a surprise when fans are more defensive.