Honestly, it’s awful. Last night I watched “the greatest show on earth”, the Superbowl.
Complete arse from start to finish. Stop, start, stop, start, stop, start. That thing has more breaks than the Hollyoaks omnibus. And every time a player runs three feet, he’ll spend the next two minutes gesturing a bit and shouting “YEAHHH! OH YEAHHH!” at the top of his voice. If he runs four feet, then he’s in for some serious helmet slapping.
I used to think it was really complicated. It’s not. But the commentators make it so much worse. At first, I thought it was just because I didn’t know the game that well. I figured if I watched it for long enough I’d understand what all those numbers meant. But when the commentator mentioned “UK soccer ball” (I’m not even kidding…), I sat up and took notice. Surely, as they’re talking about a sport I know and love (and understand better than that muppet Uriah Rennie), I’d suddenly feel a sense of togetherness with my American friends.
“Since the NFL was over in England, Chelsea club have found playoff success with 16 and 4 with 8 and have reach league cup competition final.”
Horrendous. Just had to get that off my chest.
Another thing I noticed, was that they were playing in a University stadium. A UNIVERSITY! The size of it. It was massive. Our University ’stadium’ has 40 seats. Still, I’d rather watch Lincoln play Loughborough at footy than that overhyped, overcommercialised toss any day. Rule Britannia!
I couldnt agree more with you. What astounds me with American Football, is that at the end of the Super Bowl they announce the winning team as the “World Champions”. They are not World Champions! They have competed at a National level and have won the highest competition at a National Level. I might be wrong but they havnt played against another team in another country have they?
When the Aussie Rules Champions are christened in Australia, they dont call themselves “World Champions”, because they are not for starters and also because they have modesty.
The Super Bowl has this superiority complex when it comes to sporting finals. Its almost as if the world doesnt exist or any other sport exists when the Super Bowl is on. It makes me mad sometimes in a light-hearted way.
Also, did that commentator think Chelsea play there home games at Wembley?
Because if thats the case then thats unsettling.
Spot on Dave. I watched it once a couple years back when it was on five, it was the year Janet Jackson got one of her baps out. Worst. Sport. Ever. But then again I haven’t watched any other American sports…
The last straw for me came when they called a time out with five seconds to go before the end of the second quarter and the real entertainment (Tom Petty) came on…
I dont’t even think my university had a stadium, your lucky!
As an American myself, I must admit I’m a fan of both America’s and the rest of the world’s football. I think both have their merits. I would not refer to it as “complete arse.” It can be slow to develop, but it is most definitely a challenge and an excellent spectator sport live. I attend the University of Miami, and college football is truly a spectacle unlike any other.
And “The University of Phoenix Stadium” is actually not a university’s stadium. University of Phoenix is an online school that paid a sponsorship; the professional league’s Arizona Cardinals typically play there.
Hah!!
Astounding …Truly dense.
This from a person who watches ‘ soccer’, supposedly, surely the world’s most boring and ill-conceived sport.I can prove it.
Here’s why:
1. 90% of the actual game is played at mid-field, which effectively means one can go down to the local TCBY and return 20 minutes later with your yogurt shake, and watch the same mind numbing passing game going on at mid-field, with the usual pinball-like accuracy. So a really high scoring game might have what, 4 goals? Stupefying..
2. As a Canadian who grew up playing contact sports, like the truly greatest sport on the globe, hockey, I find the attitude of these so-called ‘professional’ footballers unbelievably whiny and insipid. Players fall to the pitch as if pole-axed at the slightest provocation, crying and pissing like frightened girls. This to me provokes mumbled epithets and head shaking, like ‘get up, idiot. You’re a ‘professional”…Puke inducing cowardice and amateurism.
3. Idiot, fanatical soccer fans. Karl Marx was wrong, the opiate of the masses is actually soccer. Fans turn out festooned with ridiculous hats, flags, scarves, bellies full of lager, ready to die for.. Chelsea? Inter-Milan? Chicago fire?
Wake up people, the world is going to hell and you’re worried about Frank Lampard’s knee or where will Ronaldo play next>??????? Get a Life for chrissake!
4. Latino sportscasters who scream ‘GGOOOOOOOOLL” after every ‘goal’ however lame and unimportant
5. An endless series of meaningless games in leagues that don’t matter to anyone except Fagan , the 100 year old moron down at the pub who remembers something in his ale-addled pate from sixty years ago in some game in which he played a pivotal role if only in his own mind, or his equivalent in Brazil, Poland, Turkey, or any other country where they don’t have sufficient technology to make ice and play hockey.
well of course you’d like hockey if your Canadian. Soccer is the most played sport in the world. Now to answer your points.
1. This proves you know nothing about the game.
2. hockey players just beat the shit out of each other.
3. So hockey fans don’t wear the colors of their team? Wow, some supporters they are.
4. Hockey sportscasters don’t get excited at all because it’s so boring.
5. A endless series of meaningless games don’t matter to anyone except the moron who doesn’t like real sports and is content to freeze his ass off and watch a bunch of idiots slap a round disc at each other.
THE REASONS HOCKEY SUCKS:
1. It’s played on ice. You cannot have a real sport that involves artificially frozen water. This immediately disqualifies it as a sport. Ice was not meant for sport. It would maybe be a sport if you had to play it out on frozen lakes. Now that would be something if there was an actual risk of the teams falling through the ice. The thought of the Detroit Redwings flailing about in frozen water, bashing chunks of ice feebly with their hockey sticks as their equipment and saturated sweaters pull them under is a pleasant one. I would pay money to see that. The fact that it is on ice leads to the second problem with it.
2. You have to wear ice skates to play it. I don’t care how much you try to butch up the skates the fact is it’s essentially the same piece of sporting equipment used by Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen and Peggy Fleming. It’s a small blade and with a few minor adjustments you have the same devices as figure skaters. I like the image of mincing and jumping hockey players, however. The fact it requires both ice skates and ice leads to the third problem.
3. You can’t play a back yard game of hockey. What are you going to do after a big meal, freeze the yard and spend half an hour strapping eight thousand pounds of equipment? A real sport should be one kids can get together on a summer day and play in a sandlot, parking lot or playground. Hockey does not qualify.
4. It’s BOOOOOOORRRIINNNNNNGGGGG. Here’s the typical hockey game: Two guys meet in the middle. The Ref stands there and holds the puck. The guys twitch like epileptics on a roller coaster. Suddenly the ref makes a motion and one of the guys has to step out. Why? No one knows. Finally the puck is dropped and people skate all over the place. Then NOTHING happens for what seems like four days. A guy will break away and everyone gets excited. Hey, this looks promising. Then he crosses the second blue line and???? Dumps the puck into the corner where a bunch of men then collide and smash into each other. Maybe you get a fight and that looks promising but just when things get really good the refs step in and stop it.
5. Three periods and two long breaks? That’s just stupid.
So you don’t like American football, that fair enough and your opinion.
But please don’t come out with the age old too many breaks in the game pathetic argument. Have you ever watched tennis? golf? or cricket? Come on please, it’s just another sport.
To Mr. Hockey Fan:
Yeah, I’m a hockey player myself and to see people like you exist makes me embarrassed about the sport.
Likewise, to the hockey hater:
You comments are pathetic and your arguments have no ground. Do you even know what defines a sport? Playing on fake water is no different than playing on clay, turf, water, etc. If ESPN can show poker on it’s channel, then I’m pretty sure it’s safe to say hockey is a sport. Don’t believe me? Look up the definition of sport you half wit. Summer days are not the only days that qualify something to be a sport. How old are you? 12?
I agree with the poster to an extent. I can’t stand professional American football. It’s so pathetic, almost as pathetic as baseball. However, college football is something different and I don’t know what it is about supporting your own school. Local pride I guess? NFL teams being dubbed world champions is also stupid.
I’ve played both soccer and hockey all my life and I have to say soccer is more brutal. At least in hockey, you can get hit but you’ll bounce off the boards or pick yourself right off the ice. Yes, I know what it’s like to get demolished but you have pads on. Soccer is a different story and you have to be a lot more careful because there is no padding except shin guards. Granted, a good of those soccer players at the pro level are divers, but last time I checked, those same hockey players tried their hardest to draw a penalty.
Don’t give me this soccer vs hockey bullshit when both parties don’t even know what their talking about, especially the guy trying to bash hockey. That’s what I expect from the kids I work with at my elementary school.
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