Why are Americans so fat?
Because they don't like soccer
Why do soccer fans refuse to admit how ungodly boring it is?
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The real lesson to draw from this post, and its comments, is that ALL sports are horribly boring. Soccer is just the worst of them...
Oh, and for whoever commented that American fans don't have any "passion", well, if by passion you mean constantly trampling dozens of each other to death at every game, then yes, American fans do lack that "passion". Other countries can have that kind of retard "passion" all to themselves.
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also there is no passion in American sports crowds, and franchising makes the game completely soulless (although football has sadly been moving in this direction for the last 20 years, it still retains enough of its original spirit to be tolerable).
LOL. College football fans in the us are way more passionate than premier league fans.
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Thank god for Hispanic immigration into the US where they will finally teach Americans how to play and appreciate a real sport.
REMINDER: the goal of football, rugby and gridiron is basically the same: to get past the other team into a scoring area. What's different about football?
(a) There is a specific location on the other team's byline that you have to place the ball: you don't get rewarded for simply reaching it.
(b) Football is less of a dead-ball game than gridiron and rugby due to stricter rules about interception and the fact the game is played with feet not hands. You don't have those long periods of the game where players pass around trying to break a defence in gridiron because the game stops for commercials. As another poster said, it means tension doesn't have a chance to build up.
(c) Because the goal and not the byline is where points are scored, defensive teams have learnt to defend in lines (usually a back four and two holding midfielders). This means the attacking part of the game either involves (i) a calculated break-down based on decisive passing and attacking movement (think Guardiola's Barca/Bayern) or (ii) a counterattack where the opposition defence is out of position (think Mourinho's Chelsea).
Besides, if you only watch sports for the goals/points then you aren't really appreciating the tactical side of the game at all. What's interesting is how teams go about it: that's why you see so many different styles of football in Europe. Americans don't seem to understand this...If you watch the EPL you will get extremely physical, high-tempo football. If you watch La Liga you will get measured, technical build-up football. If you watch Serie A you will get defensive, very tactically-minded football. Yada yada.
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Suppose you were asked to design a new sport, and one of your assistants said, " I know, let's ban the players from using their hands." Why would you want to put that constraint on the athletes? Humans can do amazing things with their hands. (Inset fap jokes here.)
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Thank god for Hispanic immigration into the US where they will finally teach Americans how to play and appreciate a real sport.
REMINDER: the goal of football, rugby and gridiron is basically the same: to get past the other team into a scoring area. What's different about football?
(a) There is a specific location on the other team's byline that you have to place the ball: you don't get rewarded for simply reaching it.
(b) Football is less of a dead-ball game than gridiron and rugby due to stricter rules about interception and the fact the game is played with feet not hands. You don't have those long periods of the game where players pass around trying to break a defence in gridiron because the game stops for commercials. As another poster said, it means tension doesn't have a chance to build up.
(c) Because the goal and not the byline is where points are scored, defensive teams have learnt to defend in lines (usually a back four and two holding midfielders). This means the attacking part of the game either involves (i) a calculated break-down based on decisive passing and attacking movement (think Guardiola's Barca/Bayern) or (ii) a counterattack where the opposition defence is out of position (think Mourinho's Chelsea).
Besides, if you only watch sports for the goals/points then you aren't really appreciating the tactical side of the game at all. What's interesting is how teams go about it: that's why you see so many different styles of football in Europe. Americans don't seem to understand this...If you watch the EPL you will get extremely physical, high-tempo football. If you watch La Liga you will get measured, technical build-up football. If you watch Serie A you will get defensive, very tactically-minded football. Yada yada.Couldn't finish, too boring. Kinda like soccer itself.
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Coming from Europe, I have gotta give Americans credit for elevating basketball into the major leagues. It's a good game, but for whatever reason it is seriously unappreciated in the rest of the world. As for the other big American sports, the baseball, (american) football, and NASCAR, they're just a big snooze-fest.