US SOCCER

[BDKJMU]

Look at the equipment and expenses required for football, hockey, and baseball compared to soccer from youth, HS, and college.

And stockcars for NASCAR! Whooo dawgie!

I see reading comprehension isn't your fortay. I was talking bout team sports. Pretty clear when I also mentioned NFL, NHL, and MLB. Since you're a little slow I'll repeat it. Even will bold the team part.

"Soccer is the perfect po folk TEAM sport"

[dbackjon]

Don't you have your sheets to wash for the Klan rally tonight?

Don't you have your azzless chaps to wash for the gay pride rally tonight?

I don't wash them.

[Skjellyfetti]

And stockcars for NASCAR! Whooo dawgie!

I see reading comprehension isn't your fortay. I was talking bout team sports. Pretty clear when I also mentioned NFL, NHL, and MLB. Since you're a little slow I'll repeat it. Even will bold the team part.

"Soccer is the perfect po folk TEAM sport"

NASCAR is a team sport.

And, I see spelling isn't your forte.

[MSUDuo]

Klinsmann has already gone on record saying that he'll be bringing in anyone and everyone from the 1991s to the 1999s, leaving no rock unturned. We could have up to 5 major tournaments before the next WC. We've got to find more fish in the sea in a hurry. I like his thinking

Should be fun to watch

[BDKJMU]

I see reading comprehension isn't your fortay. I was talking bout team sports. Pretty clear when I also mentioned NFL, NHL, and MLB. Since you're a little slow I'll repeat it. Even will bold the team part.

"Soccer is the perfect po folk TEAM sport"

NASCAR is a team sport.

And, I see spelling isn't your forte.

NASCAR (and other auto racing) to football/basketball/baseball/soccer in terms of being a team sport is Apples to Oranges.

And writing "bout" instead of "about" and "po" instead of "poor" was obviously intentional slang.

Don't be obtuse.

[Skjellyfetti]

And writing "bout" instead of "about" and "po" instead of "poor" was obviously intentional slang.

Don't be obtuse.

Ok. I'll try to paint a clearer picture?

I see reading comprehension isn't your fortay.

I see spelling isn't your forte.

[BDKJMU]

And writing "bout" instead of "about" and "po" instead of "poor" was obviously intentional slang.

Don't be obtuse.

Ok. I'll try to paint a clearer picture?

I see reading comprehension isn't your fortay.

I see spelling isn't your forte.

I'd rather be the one who unintentionally misspells the occasional word (especially in today's age of trying to type on smart phones) than the one who fails at reading comprehension.

[BDKJMU]

Both of those plays were in extra time. At what point did #9 come in? Wasn't it 2nd half?

And we need to get some big dudes like that with skill...

Lokuku, #9, came on at the beginning of extra time. So technically at 91'.

So he's one of their best player's, right? Sure looked like it. Wasn't the Belgium coach taking a huge risk by not putting him in earlier? How stupid would that had looked for Belgium if we had scored with a minute or 2 left in the second half when that shot right in front of the open goal was blown, we win, and the guy was never put in the game? Seems to me if Belgium had put him in earlier there was a good chance they would have scored earlier and could have avoided the whole OT thing to begin with. Seems like an unnecessary risk they took.

[Skjellyfetti]

They were having trouble scoring in their first few matches until they subbed on Origi so they went with Origi over Lukaku to start against the US.

But, the same thing happened and the scoring started after subbing their striker.




Also, you're starting to think too much about a sport you hate. And starting to sound like an effeminate - possibly communist - European sports fan.

[BDKJMU]

They were having trouble scoring in their first few matches until they subbed on Origi so they went with Origi over Lukaku to start against the US.

But, the same thing happened and the scoring started after subbing their striker.

Also, you're starting to think too much about a sport you hate. And starting to sound like an effeminate - possibly communist - European sports fan.

Never said I hated it. But don't like it either for several reasons. The not stopping the clock during the numerous 1/2 minute to several minute stoppages for various reasons, the flopping, could use a little more scoring. The only televised soccer games I have watched in my entire life were in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014, but only because the US was in it.

I have already done something I had never done before. That is watch more than 1-2 games that the US wasn't playing in. Probably have watched 1/2 doz in addition to the US's 4 games. Remains to be seen if I'll do something I have never done before, and that is watch a game after the US has been knocked.Only qtr final game I have ever watched was the 1 the US was in. Never watched a semi final or the final. Regardless, after the next week or 2, the next soccer game I watch will be 2018...until then I'll leave all the soccer watching to the effeminate commie pinkos..

[JMU DJ]

[Ibanez]

"Poll: World Cup a liberal's game; just 30% of nation following it

......according to YouGov.com poll published hours before the U.S. plays Belgium on Tuesday, liberals and moderates are tuning in far more than conservatives.

YouGov reports that 35 percent of liberals, 34 percent of moderates and just 27 percent of self-described conservatives are watching the World Cup.

As for soccer viewing when the World Cup is not being played, 24 percent of liberals, 21 percent of moderates and a tiny 14 percent of conservatives watch the sport.

Overall, 28 percent of the nation considers the sport the “most boring to watch.”

Strip politics out of the equation, and just 30 percent of the nation is paying attention to the World Cup, with 70 percent watching it "not closely" or "not at at all."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/poll-worl ... le/2550374" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You know, not EVERYTHING needs to be politicized. Let a game of soccer be a game and not an indictment on the moral decay of Westfuckingstan.

[Ibanez]

[Ibanez]

[UNI88]

And stockcars for NASCAR! Whooo dawgie!

I see reading comprehension isn't your fortay. I was talking bout team sports. Pretty clear when I also mentioned NFL, NHL, and MLB. Since you're a little slow I'll repeat it. Even will bold the team part.

"Soccer is the perfect po folk TEAM sport"

A soccer ball tends to get more wear and tear than a basketball and needs replaced more frequently so I would argue that basketball if a better "po folk" team sport.

And on the subject of diversity, there is no perfectly diverse sport. People of different backgrounds tend to focus on different sports. My 15 y/o has a soccer teammate who is of Puerto Rican decent. His father was initially sad because he didn't want to play baseball as a kid but now he's come to love watching his son play soccer. My 13 y/o played on a soccer team in the Windy City League in Chicago a few summers ago. He was the only blond kid on a team full of kids of Mexican decent.

[89Hen]

And on the subject of diversity, there is no perfectly diverse sport.

David Duke would argue downhill skiing is the the perfectly diverse sport.

[BDKJMU]

"Poll: World Cup a liberal's game; just 30% of nation following it

......according to YouGov.com poll published hours before the U.S. plays Belgium on Tuesday, liberals and moderates are tuning in far more than conservatives.

YouGov reports that 35 percent of liberals, 34 percent of moderates and just 27 percent of self-described conservatives are watching the World Cup.

As for soccer viewing when the World Cup is not being played, 24 percent of liberals, 21 percent of moderates and a tiny 14 percent of conservatives watch the sport.

Overall, 28 percent of the nation considers the sport the “most boring to watch.”

Strip politics out of the equation, and just 30 percent of the nation is paying attention to the World Cup, with 70 percent watching it "not closely" or "not at at all."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/poll-worl ... le/2550374" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You know, not EVERYTHING needs to be politicized. Let a game of soccer be a game and not an indictment on the moral decay of Westfuckingstan.

You need to take your arguement up with YouGov.com and the Washington Examiner. I'm just the messenger..

[YoUDeeMan]

He was the only blond kid on a team full of kids of Mexican decent.

Yes, but was it a team full of decent Mexican kids?

[BlueHen86]

You know, not EVERYTHING needs to be politicized. Let a game of soccer be a game and not an indictment on the moral decay of Westfuckingstan.

You need to take your arguement up with YouGov.com and the Washington Examiner. I'm just the messenger..

The argument is with you. You are the one who posted it here. Not everything has to be political, and if you insist on making everything political we have a poli board just for that purpose.

[tribe_pride]

Germany advanced to the semis and a date with the Colombia/Brazil winner with a 1-0 win over France. Nice header off the bottom of the crossbar won it.

[BDKJMU]

You need to take your arguement up with YouGov.com and the Washington Examiner. I'm just the messenger..

The argument is with you. You are the one who posted it here. Not everything has to be political, and if you insist on making everything political we have a poli board just for that purpose.

[BlueHen86]

The argument is with you. You are the one who posted it here. Not everything has to be political, and if you insist on making everything political we have a poli board just for that purpose.

Probably the only action you get.

[93henfan]

Brazilian star Neymar out the rest of the World Cup with fractured vertebrae after being kneed in the back in victory over Colombia.

[93henfan]

C'mon Costa Rica! Helluva game regardless of outcome.

[93henfan]

Boo. Van Der Sloots take it on PKs.