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Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers

Posted: August 29, 2007 04:09 PM


 
 
 
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09:58 PM on 09/01/2007
Baffling post. Soccer, or football to we purists, is more played at the youth level than any sport in America right now. Furthermore, many of today's parents played as youths. Personally, I grew up playing the sport and still pay extra each month to watch as much as possible. Sure as hell beats watching corn-fed dudes running around in tights. You can have that, I'll keep my football, thank you very much.
01:48 PM on 08/31/2007
Brilliant, Sr. Powers.
Why not take Michael Vick along for the ride? Alberto Gonzales?
Imagine a colony of America's favorite pariahs -- collectively fallen from grace and whisked overseas in the care of MTV and VH1's bastard reality TV child ("The Surreal World: Baghdad"? A girl can dream). It's beautiful, isn't it? Just keep Vick away from the camels.
08:59 PM on 08/29/2007
The biggest problem with soccer in the US is that advertisers can't make enough money on it and then tell us how much we love soccer.

To me (and I know I'm not in the majority),
baseball is one of the most freakin' boring sports ever. Better than golf or bowling (to watch), but what's that really saying?
NFL is not much better, with all of the
stoppages. Yes, I know soccer has stoppages too, but not as many and not as long.

Basketball and hockey are closer; at least
the action is pretty continuous, and either team can score at any time.

Bottom line though, in soccer, World Champion actually means something... and if US soccer players got paid like NFL/MLB/NBA players, we'd probably already have beaten down Brazil by now (even if
we had to do it by paying a bunch of Brazilians to relocate to the US). The money's just not there so far... but to think it will always be that way is very naive.
12:49 AM on 08/30/2007
Yes, baseball may not be particularly suited to the ADHD crowd. Soccer strikes me as a bunch of stoppages, while all are trying to figure which way the ball went...what's a "stoppage" anyway?

Well, naive I may be, but in the meantime, until "soccer" fully globalizes, I'll take the world series.
06:04 PM on 08/29/2007
"especially when more youngsters are playing the game over any other "American" sport."
And a good thing that is, as it keeps the ones who ought not to be playing baseball, basketball, hockey, or football off of those respective fields. Eventually, we can send 'em all to Iraq
to raise some nets or something.
Soccer seems an exercise in futility, seems as tho for every pass worth watching, one's gotta bear a thousand that just seem, like, so what?
05:42 PM on 08/29/2007
I do appreciate the snark at the end of this post and how it does reveal that even the World's Sport cannot keep violence out of Iraq.

Yet, the beginning makes me pause. If you cannot see or understand why Beckham is more than a placekicker, then you have no idea what soccer is all about. Soccer is quickly becoming a major sport in the United States - both in attendance and marketing money. It will never replace the big three, but does that mean there could not be a big 4?

Does he deserve the salary - of course not, but we can hardly hold Beckham accountable for a system that offers this money. Regardless, what I cannot understand is why so many Americans hate soccer - is it really because we did not come up with it or did not make it popular? If so, then we are certainly a more xenophobic, ignorant, and silly people than I thought.

Oh, and by the by - when Beckham does leave our shores (and why would he want to?) I'll wager that the fans will be quite pleased with what he left behind. You cannot keep us "football" fans quiet forever...especially when more youngsters are playing the game over any other "American" sport.
12:51 AM on 08/30/2007
I am guessing that you, tecumseh, are an American. You can't figure out why you don't like soccer?
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04:25 PM on 08/31/2007
You do know why people play soccer----so they don't have to watch it!
05:19 PM on 08/29/2007
Iraq is old news. Send the bastard to Iran! That's where the Kewl Kids want to be. He may want to wait until the nuclear fallout lessens a little though. Yeee Ha!!!!
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03:12 AM on 09/02/2007
NO! Send Senator Craig, Folie, Romneys's sons, and a few other COWARDS to see what our poor solders have to live with daily.