[quote]Claudan wrote:
doesn’t make sense to say this. Points are relative.
If you have 0.5pts, and everyone else has 0pts,
… 0.5 pts is not that much, but it’s enough.
Can’t be that hard to understand so stop trolling [/quote]
I’m neither trolling nor am I incapable of understanding the math. I’m simply agreeing with the previous poster that it seems strange to go on when we’ve only won one game.
She’s special.
[quote]Claudan wrote:
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Plus, the U.S. ties a game and losses a game, but they’re doing good/advance to the next round… Does not compute. [/quote]
lol, I thought the same thing. If we don’t at least win 2 games, we don’t deserve to go on.[/quote]
doesn’t make sense to say this. Points are relative.
If you have 0.5pts, and everyone else has 0pts,
… 0.5 pts is not that much, but it’s enough.
Can’t be that hard to understand so stop trolling [/quote]
Ya, I understand how a point system works… Doesn’t mean it isn’t completely foreign/weird to me. I guess it makes sense because tie’s happen a lot, which also doesn’t compute.
Jesus.
I didn’t have the fortitude to get through that article.
Does she not wink at any point? Is that shit really being pushed in seriousness?
[quote]magick wrote:
She’s special.[/quote]
I thought I would highlight the last paragraph: "If more “Americans” are watching soccer today, it’s only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time. "
That, right there, is 10/10 trolling. Even the Russian judge gave her perfect marks.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
It’s not like the two soccer players were running full force into each other and the “armor” football player wear doesn’t mute the entirety of the impact of a tackle. That’s a pretty crazy assertion by your article. [/quote]
They are running quite fast. And looks can be deceiving.
I never said the armor absorbs all the impact. I just said it make it so that the players don’t feel a lot of it.
[quote]magick wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I guess, as an American, I just don’t understand. It looked like he barely bumped into the other player while going for the ball. Maybe my perception is just skewed since I watch a lot of football (American football that is). [/quote]
Again, keep in mind that football players wear a lot of armor.
I’ve read an article that says that the armor is so much that they generally don’t even feel the impact. And that this is actually counterproductive, because it causes people to not realize that they have concussions, smash people even harder, just be rougher in general.
You may not feel it, but your body suffers in the long run.
Anyways, if you want to experiment how painful it is to run into something, you can always just get a buddy and run straight into one another.[/quote]
Whatever dude. Rugby players wear the same amount of gear soccer players do and they are running into each other and colliding all the time. Of course they are bigger guys, but still.
[quote]magick wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
It’s not like the two soccer players were running full force into each other and the “armor” football player wear doesn’t mute the entirety of the impact of a tackle. That’s a pretty crazy assertion by your article. [/quote]
They are running quite fast. And looks can be deceiving.
I never said the armor absorbs all the impact. I just said it make it so that the players don’t feel a lot of it.
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I guess we can just agree to disagree. I don’t want to muck up the thread for those that enjoy soccer.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Plus, the U.S. ties a game and losses a game, but they’re doing good/advance to the next round… Does not compute. [/quote]
lol, I thought the same thing. If we don’t at least win 2 games, we don’t deserve to go on.[/quote]
doesn’t make sense to say this. Points are relative.
If you have 0.5pts, and everyone else has 0pts,
… 0.5 pts is not that much, but it’s enough.
Can’t be that hard to understand so stop trolling [/quote]
Ya, I understand how a point system works… Doesn’t mean it isn’t completely foreign/weird to me. I guess it makes sense because tie’s happen a lot, which also doesn’t compute. [/quote]
Seen this? Pretty good!
[quote]Claudan wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]Claudan wrote:
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Plus, the U.S. ties a game and losses a game, but they’re doing good/advance to the next round… Does not compute. [/quote]
lol, I thought the same thing. If we don’t at least win 2 games, we don’t deserve to go on.[/quote]
doesn’t make sense to say this. Points are relative.
If you have 0.5pts, and everyone else has 0pts,
… 0.5 pts is not that much, but it’s enough.
Can’t be that hard to understand so stop trolling [/quote]
Ya, I understand how a point system works… Doesn’t mean it isn’t completely foreign/weird to me. I guess it makes sense because tie’s happen a lot, which also doesn’t compute. [/quote]
Seen this? Pretty good!
An American Coach in London: NBC Sports Premier League Film featuring Jason Sudeikis - YouTube [/quote]
Lol, that’s good.
ahaha, that was terrific.
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
Jesus.
I didn’t have the fortitude to get through that article.
Does she not wink at any point? Is that shit really being pushed in seriousness?
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If it had a tongue in cheek element, I hope it did, it was very well disguised. I fear, however, that it was not really a light hearted joke. There was so much factually incorrect with that article its enough to make me mad even without considering the moronic opinion.
[quote]magick wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
It’s not like the two soccer players were running full force into each other and the “armor” football player wear doesn’t mute the entirety of the impact of a tackle. That’s a pretty crazy assertion by your article. [/quote]
They are running quite fast. And looks can be deceiving.
I never said the armor absorbs all the impact. I just said it make it so that the players don’t feel a lot of it.
[/quote]
Magick, I gotta call you out there. The “armor” really serves as much to embolden people so that they run harder as it does to protect. And to say that you don’t feel a lot of it just shows that you have never been on the receiving end of a crushing tackle from a 6’4 225 lb safety (the one that got me was named Jamie Collins, google him, he was a freshman when I was a senior). You feel it in every part of you and then you gotta get up and do it again.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
[quote]magick wrote:
She’s special.[/quote]
I thought I would highlight the last paragraph: "If more “Americans” are watching soccer today, it’s only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time. "
That, right there, is 10/10 trolling. Even the Russian judge gave her perfect marks.
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Having to choose between Ann Coulter and Soccer. Damn. Talk about a rock and a hard place. I guess if I dad to choose, I’d choose Rollins.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Magick, I gotta call you out there. The “armor” really serves as much to embolden people so that they run harder as it does to protect. And to say that you don’t feel a lot of it just shows that you have never been on the receiving end of a crushing tackle from a 6’4 225 lb safety (the one that got me was named Jamie Collins, google him, he was a freshman when I was a senior). You feel it in every part of you and then you gotta get up and do it again.
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Well I did say the same thing in an earlier post.
"I’ve read an article that says that the armor is so much that they generally don’t even feel the impact. And that this is actually counterproductive, because it causes people to not realize that they have concussions, smash people even harder, just be rougher in general. "
That being said, yes, I’ve never played football, and I am basing most of my stuff on an article or two I’ve read.
No doubt football hurts. I just think people underestimate soccer.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
[quote]magick wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
It’s not like the two soccer players were running full force into each other and the “armor” football player wear doesn’t mute the entirety of the impact of a tackle. That’s a pretty crazy assertion by your article. [/quote]
They are running quite fast. And looks can be deceiving.
I never said the armor absorbs all the impact. I just said it make it so that the players don’t feel a lot of it.
[/quote]
Magick, I gotta call you out there. The “armor” really serves as much to embolden people so that they run harder as it does to protect. And to say that you don’t feel a lot of it just shows that you have never been on the receiving end of a crushing tackle from a 6’4 225 lb safety (the one that got me was named Jamie Collins, google him, he was a freshman when I was a senior). You feel it in every part of you and then you gotta get up and do it again.
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Look, there is A LOT of flopping no doubt about that but, the hits are very different. Being hit hard in Rugby will knock you on your ass, take your wind, etc. it is a full body impact. Running full speed and being kicked with a stud on say your shin is fucking painful. Imagine slamming your bare foot on a concrete floor and then on a rock they both will hurt but, the rock is a sharp pain.
My god does this thread ever suck. Four years ago we had a great World Cup thread, with some great game discussion (and thumbs down to the mod who closed that thread the instant the final was over).
This time round, just a bunch of anti-soccer trolling.
A pity, too, 'cause I just came from watching the US-Germany game in Knoxville. Germany was by FAR the better team, but I was impressed by the passion of the American fans. The bars were all packed to overflowing and everyone went nuts pretty much any time it looked like the US might score.
Why don’t you start a WC thread, then? Ask for it to remain troll-free.
the lack of quality discussion has just as much to do with pro-soccer contribution as it does with anti-soccer contributions.
[quote]xXSeraphimXx wrote:
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
[quote]magick wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
It’s not like the two soccer players were running full force into each other and the “armor” football player wear doesn’t mute the entirety of the impact of a tackle. That’s a pretty crazy assertion by your article. [/quote]
They are running quite fast. And looks can be deceiving.
I never said the armor absorbs all the impact. I just said it make it so that the players don’t feel a lot of it.
[/quote]
Magick, I gotta call you out there. The “armor” really serves as much to embolden people so that they run harder as it does to protect. And to say that you don’t feel a lot of it just shows that you have never been on the receiving end of a crushing tackle from a 6’4 225 lb safety (the one that got me was named Jamie Collins, google him, he was a freshman when I was a senior). You feel it in every part of you and then you gotta get up and do it again.
[/quote]
Look, there is A LOT of flopping no doubt about that but, the hits are very different. Being hit hard in Rugby will knock you on your ass, take your wind, etc. it is a full body impact. Running full speed and being kicked with a stud on say your shin is fucking painful. Imagine slamming your bare foot on a concrete floor and then on a rock they both will hurt but, the rock is a sharp pain.[/quote]
Almost any person that has played football has been kicked with cleat. Trying to say that any amount of pain from the impacts in soccer doesn’t happen just as badly and to the tenth degree greater in football or rugby is kind of ludicrous. Getting your nose kicked in (ala Dempsey) or suffering a real injury (structural damage) is bad in any sport but that is the extent of where soccer contact can even match anything in the realm of collision that goes on in rugby or football.
That’s nothing against soccer but its just the rules of the game. The same rules that apply to soccer apply to basketball as well.