<p>ITS A GIRLS GAME?!?!! They are the ones that run around in tights and basically neutered the game of rugby. Not only did the meaning of the world "football" get lost while crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, I guess some brain cells as well. I would like to see a "football" player run around for 90 minutes and still be properly functional. </p>
<p>All "football" is is a male orgy where a guy runs a yard and then has five guys on top of him. After this the "football" player goes to the locker room where the scorer gets slapped in the arse a bunch of times. Very manly, oh yes, very manly.</p>
<p><strong>I know I am being highly stereotypical (and possibly falsifying information) but hey Tripperian's football coach started it!</strong></p>
<p>But yea its great that Tripperian finds it fun. :)</p>
<p>BTW anyone find the ESPN2 commentary during the Argentina vs IV game annoying. The guy was just using these baseball and basketball examples to explain the game. What other channel broadcasts it without having annoying commentary?</p>
<p>In furthering the stereotype. Lots of fatties. Big huge American fatties who run short distances and then as you say......fall onto each other. Look at the obese Americans on the street and then look at "football". They make an accurate representation. Overly large, overly fat, overly equipped.......slow game.</p>
<p>I am watching it and won't miss too much as I will be going to France in four days.
I want to go see the possible blowout of Angola by Portugal.</p>
<p>Hey no need to get defensive. Who runs around in tights? And how can u say that the players of the most physical game wouldnt be properly functional after "running" around for 90 minutes? Thats ridiculous. I'd have to say that basketball players are the most conditioned, then football, rugby, then tennis, then me going outside and riding my bike for 5 minutes, then soccer would be close to the end. </p>
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<p>Talk about male orgy, have u seen when a soccer player scores a goal and what his fellow teammates do after that?! thats a male orgy, all groping each other and celebrating like they won the freaking lottery. Mahras, y do u make me do this to u when all I said was that Im becoming a fan?!</p>
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<p>Wow, u cant get any more biased than this hazmat guy. Fatties?!?! Sure, lots of football players might be over 300 pounds, but they also are about 6'5", and run a 4.9 or 5.0 40 yard dash. To put that into perspective, Im a skinny, athletic, 160 pounder who cant even run under a 5.1 40 yarder. Football players are the most athletic athletes, plain and simple. Slow game, overly equipped?!!? Oh little do u know my friend.</p>
<p>Lacrosse players are the best conditioned...period. :) </p>
<p>Anyways lets not stray from the topic of talking about good football...the only arguing that is to be going on here is who's nat'l team is better</p>
<p>heheh, I was just playing. (I still find football abnoxiously boring) Nothing was directed against you...just that coach you were talking about.</p>
<p>Based on what people who play basketball tell me, soccer is more demanding to them. However, both have different skillsets and can't be compared. It actually has been shown that among popular sports soccer ranks after the water sports (water polo, competitive swimming) in terms of strenuous level. So leave the bike comments aside :). </p>
<p>When they score a goal, they have done something better than winning the lottery...They have become a part of history (you don't have little kids idolizing lottery winners...you have them idolizing people like Ronaldinho, and Rooney). I think thats a little better than the constant orgy ehh ;). </p>
<p>Soccer game they go non stop for two 45 minute halfs. Running the whole time non the less. And there is a 15 min or so break between the halfs. I don't see any other sport except for running were you run that long non-stop. </p>
<p>And some of the best conditioned atheletes are Formula 1 drivers. Their training regimine is harder than Navy Seals. They are in insane shape to take 3-5 G corners, with necks as big as tree tunks. Next up in conditioning I would definitely put ski racers. They are also in insane shape to do their insane sport. Lacrosse is way later on the list.</p>
<p>Those arent tights, those are knee high socks that teams are required to wear. Basketball players wear tights.</p>
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<p>Give me a break, u know thats not true, soccer players only run when the ball is near them, and only for like 20 seconds, then they pass it to someone else.</p>
<p>Obviously someone has not bothered to watch a soccer game; some even stand still on the field or walk slowly when the ball is not near. Many just have short bursts unless they are trying to make a run at the goal or a drive, which requires longer periods of running.</p>
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<p>i guess you consider baseball to be exciting then? watching men in tights (yes, tights) run 90 feet every once in a while, but for the most part there's absolutely nothing going on on the field. </p>
<p>Soccer's not a "girl's sport" by any stretch of the imagination, but one cannot deny that there's a certain culture of wussiness that condones, even promotes, the excessive amount of diving and crying that goes on in the games. That's in stark contrast to sports like hockey or football, where such acts would entail immediate ridicule or ostracization. </p>
<p>And some of those "fatties" in the NFL are better athletes than any of you will ever be. Mario Williams, the #1 draft pick in 2006, is 6'7", 300 lbs., and runs a 4.7 in the 40 yard dash. Michael Vick, an extremely fast player, is only 0.4 seconds faster than this behemoth.</p>
