Here's the thing with soccer--it's an excuse to get drunk on weekday mornings and heckle foreigners, as others have mentioned. But another part of the fun for me is that American players for the most part DON'T do all the diving and injury-faking that the Latin Americans, Italians, etc. are famous for. Not saying they never do it, but it's a lot rarer in the American game than it is in most other countries (a few other countries--England, Germany, Holland--also generally stay away from it). To me, the fact that our guys don't act like pussies makes it that much sweeter when we kick the crap out of some third world shithole whose players are too busy rolling around like they've been shot at the slightest contact to even try to put some passes together.
Rugby matches should be contested by schools like Dartmouth and the Service Academies.
I would add schools full of drunk Irishmen regardless of academic stature (BC, Villanova, Providence, Marquette, etc.) to that.
hansen {l Wrote}:i think it's a travesty that wrestling has been eliminated from the Olympics. Yet another think that the millenials and Europe has ruined.
Ancient Greece must be rolling in their collective graves.
If the US, Russia, and Iran are all agreeing that something is fucked up, it's fucked up. The Europeans got rid of wrestling because they're too limp-wristed to compete in it. The Olympics needs more combat sports, not fewer. Bring back wrestling, keep boxing/taekwondo/judo, add some sort of kickboxing (K1 or Thai rules, doesn't matter), and add MMA--you could even call it "Pankration" as a nod to the ancient Olympics. Maybe even add BJJ as well, at least for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Reverend Mike {l Wrote}:PhillyandBCEagles {l Wrote}:I thought in rugby if your team gets tackled four times while holding the ball you lose possession, and so if you've been tackled three times it's common to punt it? That seems pretty much the same thing as downs in football to me--in fact now that I think about it that's probably where the word "down" came from--only difference is they don't line back up after every down.
You're thinking of Rugby League which is an offshoot of Rugby Union. Rugby League is watered-down and sped-up version of Rugby Union. It's mostly played in Northern England and in Australia (where Rugby Union is still king overall).
Colored names, please change my name to RUGBYLUVR69.
I stand corrected.
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:33 pm
