From: Peter Lawrence on
On 6/21/10 1:03 PM, Thomas R. Kettler wrote:
>
> You do realize that the extent of activity in a football game is roughly
> 15 minutes, correct?

While the extent of *meaningful* activity in a soccer game is more like
five minutes.

Watching a football team huddle and sub players in and out during the
break in play is often times more interesting than watching soccer
players *walk* around the soccer field during an actual soccer game.


- Peter

From: Daniel Edwards on
Peter Lawrence <hummbaby(a)aol.com> wrote in
news:hvojom$l7h$1(a)news.eternal-september.org:

> On 6/21/10 1:03 PM, Thomas R. Kettler wrote:
>>
>> You do realize that the extent of activity in a football game is
>> roughly 15 minutes, correct?
>
> While the extent of *meaningful* activity in a soccer game is more
> like five minutes.
>
> Watching a football team huddle and sub players in and out during
> the break in play is often times more interesting than watching
> soccer players *walk* around the soccer field during an actual
> soccer game.

How much more interesting than soccer is the following sequence:

Extra point
Commercial break
Kickoff
Commercial break
3 and out
Punt
Commercial break

While I also prefer the NFL and college football to soccer, a soccer
game is over in 2 hours. An SEC college football game, with 60 minutes
of official clock time, takes 4 hours.

--
Daniel Edwards
Memphis, TN
From: Antonio Veranos on
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:41:11 +0000 (UTC), Daniel Edwards wrote...

> How much more interesting than soccer is the following sequence:
>
> Extra point
> Commercial break
> Kickoff
> Commercial break
> 3 and out
> Punt
> Commercial break
>
> While I also prefer the NFL and college football to soccer, a soccer
> game is over in 2 hours. An SEC college football game, with 60 minutes
> of official clock time, takes 4 hours.

I'm always amused by those who think they have to pick one or the other,
as if liking one makes liking the other impossible. It may for certain
simpletons (with some loud examples on RSFC), but for the rest of us
there's no reason to live in such a limited sports world.

There's a ton of variety out there, and an appreciation of a wide
spectrum of it can only do any sports fan good.

--
A. Veranos

What color does a smurf go when you choke it?
From: Peter Lawrence on
On 6/21/10 3:44 PM, Antonio Veranos wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:41:11 +0000 (UTC), Daniel Edwards wrote...
>>
>> How much more interesting than soccer is the following sequence:
>>
>> Extra point
>> Commercial break
>> Kickoff
>> Commercial break
>> 3 and out
>> Punt
>> Commercial break
>>
>> While I also prefer the NFL and college football to soccer, a soccer
>> game is over in 2 hours. An SEC college football game, with 60 minutes
>> of official clock time, takes 4 hours.
>
> I'm always amused by those who think they have to pick one or the other,
> as if liking one makes liking the other impossible. It may for certain
> simpletons (with some loud examples on RSFC), but for the rest of us
> there's no reason to live in such a limited sports world.
>
> There's a ton of variety out there, and an appreciation of a wide
> spectrum of it can only do any sports fan good.

I actually like watching soccer when it's played in an entertaining
manner like how the Brazilians play the game. And even the English
style of play can be fun to watch too (when the Brits actually play well
- which they haven't done so far during this World Cup).

OTOH, I hate how the Italians play the game, or how many teams just play
so conservatively and defensively. It's like watching a college
basketball game (before they adopted the shot clock) when an inferior
team would go into a four corner stall against a superior opponent, or
how the Baltimore Ravens generally play in the NFL.

Unfortunately, so far and in most part, the play during this World Cup
has been nothing to write home about. It's been quite embarrassingly
bad to tell you the truth.


- Peter

From: Antonio Veranos on
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:47:05 -0700, Peter Lawrence wrote...

> I actually like watching soccer when it's played in an entertaining
> manner like how the Brazilians play the game. And even the English
> style of play can be fun to watch too (when the Brits actually play well
> - which they haven't done so far during this World Cup).
>
> OTOH, I hate how the Italians play the game, or how many teams just play
> so conservatively and defensively. It's like watching a college
> basketball game (before they adopted the shot clock) when an inferior
> team would go into a four corner stall against a superior opponent, or
> how the Baltimore Ravens generally play in the NFL.

There are lots of different styles. The one you refer to above is
called Catenaccio, and it's focused on the prevention of scoring, much
in the way that the Neutral Zone Trap employed by the New Jersey Devils
did the same. Of course, the term persists now though the style of play
has changed quite a bit since it was first introduced. I suspect you'd
really enjoy watching Arsenal, Manchester United, and Barcelona play.

As for the Ravens, you've not watched them in a long time, apparently.


--
A. Veranos

What color does a smurf go when you choke it?