Who's watching the World Cup?

[Bazza]

The Belgium game with Senegal was crazy!

Here's hoping the US Team can get the job done tonight!

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Here we go. USA! USA! USA!

 

[edwd58]

USA leads 1-0 at the half. A very physical first 45 minutes.

 

[Bazza]

Love the lead but Bosnia getting away with a lot of stuff!

 

[CrimsonNagus]

As a newish soccer fan, I still don’t understand what is supposed to be a foul and what is not. Some things that get called look like they were barely touched and acting hurt and something’s that look really bad aren’t called. It’s confusing.

Honestly though, I could probably say the same thing about college basketball.

 

[Bazza]

Oh come on now........

 

[Bazza]

USA wins 2-0!

 

[AlexanderFan]

As a newish soccer fan, I still don’t understand what is supposed to be a foul and what is not. Some things that get called look like they were barely touched and acting hurt and something’s that look really bad aren’t called. It’s confusing.

Honestly though, I could probably say the same thing about college basketball.

Especially with all the stoppage and lulls and high definition, there should be consequences for all this flopping, faking, and nonsense.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

That was a great performance after the red card. Fantastic defense and still found a way to score a second goal. That was an impressive final 35 minutes.

 

[CajunCrimson]

To me, it would be a much better game if you allowed two balls to be live in play simultaneously. I’d watch that.

This, as is, loses my interest in about 11 minutes. I’ve not made it beyond 11 yet. I’ve tried. I just don’t care for it. Too slow.

Or give points for other things maybe. Something.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Balogun's red card was bogus. The on-field ref didn't even award a yellow card for a play where two players get tangled up going for the ball. Now our leading scorer is suspended for the next game. Sigh. Once again, very questionable calls have an overweighted effect on the game.

 

[dayhiker]

After the US scored their second goal to go up 2-0 the announcer said that the US was down 1 man but up 2 balls. For context for those who don’t watch, the US was playing with 1 less player due to a red card. We were like , wait, did we hear that correctly?

 

[Padreruf]

To me, it would be a much better game if you allowed two balls to be live in play simultaneously. I’d watch that.

This, as is, loses my interest in about 11 minutes. I’ve not made it beyond 11 yet. I’ve tried. I just don’t care for it. Too slow.

Or give points for other things maybe. Something.

Do away with the goalies...

 

[RollTide_HTTR]

Can't believe this worked out for me so perfectly. I will be at the US's next game! Gotta find a way to win without Balogun.

 

[dtgreg]

England plays DR Congo in an hour.

This is for our friends from across the pond:

Perfection.

 

[BhamToTexas]

That red card was totally bogus!

 

[uafan4life]

To me, it would be a much better game if you allowed two balls to be live in play simultaneously. I’d watch that.

This, as is, loses my interest in about 11 minutes. I’ve not made it beyond 11 yet. I’ve tried. I just don’t care for it. Too slow.

Or give points for other things maybe. Something.

Soccer fans often complain about American football being boring because it's too slow...

So much stopping and starting, people just standing around waiting for most of the game, most players not even running a whole mile in the entire game - as opposed to most players running 5-10 miles in a soccer game.

An American Football game features around 15-20 minutes of actual gameplay spread out over more than three hours (sometimes four hours), while a soccer game features around 90 minutes of actual gameplay in about two hours. From their perspective, Soccer is about sport while American Football is about advertising.

 

[dayhiker]

Soccer fans often complain about American football being boring because it's too slow...

So much stopping and starting, people just standing around waiting for most of the game, most players not even running a whole mile in the entire game - as opposed to most players running 5-10 miles in a soccer game.

An American Football game features around 15-20 minutes of actual gameplay spread out over more than three hours (sometimes four hours), while a soccer game features around 90 minutes of actual gameplay in about two hours. From their perspective, Soccer is about sport while American Football is about advertising.

While both of those are probably true, I think the American looking at the 90 minutes of soccer gameplay feels like that game play can best be summarized by "....full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

 

[uafan4life]

While both of those are probably true, I think the American looking at the 90 minutes of soccer gameplay feels like that game play can best be summarized by "....full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

And such a statement - like most when coming from culturally opposed viewpoints - can most accurately be described as a statement based in ignorance...

 

[dayhiker]

And such a statement - like most when coming from culturally opposed viewpoints - can most accurately be described as a statement based in ignorance...

I was going to come back and say that my statement probably is also how they would describe our football. Instead, I get called ignorant.