question for u american guys: why does chelsea seem so popular amongst those who watch football over there?
I find American football and baseball rather boring, a sport that’s constantly starting and stopping loses its appeal quite quickly. Football doesn’t take much equipment to play either and is very straightforward.
Also, isn’t NFL just a pussified version of rugby? I don’t know either very well, but a lot of rugby players I know say that it is.
[quote]lamach wrote:
question for u american guys: why does chelsea seem so popular amongst those who watch football over there?
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I think maybe it’s because a lot of people here like Man U, even without knowing a single player, and just because they are marketed well. So in some sort of retaliation, I think people will support other teams. Casual soccer fans will know the names of most teams (Real Madrid, Arsenal, etc) but real fans support Chelsea because they are awesome.
[quote]tmoney1 wrote:
lamach wrote:
question for u american guys: why does chelsea seem so popular amongst those who watch football over there?
I think maybe it’s because a lot of people here like Man U, even without knowing a single player, and just because they are marketed well. So in some sort of retaliation, I think people will support other teams. Casual soccer fans will know the names of most teams (Real Madrid, Arsenal, etc) but real fans support Chelsea because they are awesome.[/quote]
Lol 
Chelsea plays the worst soccer
[quote]matko5 wrote:
tmoney1 wrote:
lamach wrote:
question for u american guys: why does chelsea seem so popular amongst those who watch football over there?
I think maybe it’s because a lot of people here like Man U, even without knowing a single player, and just because they are marketed well. So in some sort of retaliation, I think people will support other teams. Casual soccer fans will know the names of most teams (Real Madrid, Arsenal, etc) but real fans support Chelsea because they are awesome.
Lol
Chelsea plays the worst soccer :D[/quote]
We have a shoe-in for hater of the year.
[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:
bconngemini wrote:
Why would someone willingly get excited over something boring like soccer. Are they faking it? WHen Italians, Germans, Brazilians, Mexicans, Nigerians…etc say they find soccer exciting, are they being truthful in finding a boring slow low-scoring no action game exciting? or do they only say that because soccer is the only sport they can beat us in (only because we really really really don’t care abour soccer)?
Shit if you are too dumb to follow a soccer match (one of the simplest rule sets of any sport) how the hell do you follow baseball or NFL? I guess you just like it for those funny beer commercials every 10 seconds.[/quote]
Not that I can’t follow it, I don’t want to. I can also follow waiting for water to boil, watching paint dry, but I don’t care about those either.
[quote]Oroborus wrote:
I find American football and baseball rather boring, a sport that’s constantly starting and stopping loses its appeal quite quickly. Football doesn’t take much equipment to play either and is very straightforward.
Also, isn’t NFL just a pussified version of rugby? I don’t know either very well, but a lot of rugby players I know say that it is.[/quote]
It’s the other way around. NFL football is rugby on crack and steroids after going on a Jack Daniels bender, but you still have your wits about you.
[quote]lamach wrote:
question for u american guys: why does chelsea seem so popular amongst those who watch football over there?
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What does President Clinton’s daughter have to do with soccer? Sarcasm, I don’t think I can name a soccer team and I’m not ashamed of that fact.
[quote]tmoney1 wrote:
lamach wrote:
question for u american guys: why does chelsea seem so popular amongst those who watch football over there?
I think maybe it’s because a lot of people here like Man U, even without knowing a single player, and just because they are marketed well. So in some sort of retaliation, I think people will support other teams. Casual soccer fans will know the names of most teams (Real Madrid, Arsenal, etc) but real fans support Chelsea because they are awesome.[/quote]
Actually Chelsea spend more on marketing in the US than any other team. Man United and Real Madrid concentrate on Asia cause it’s more lucritive. Chelsea spend almost every summer touring the US and consider it to be their core market outside the US.
People tend to follow United and Real because they actually have a history of success spanning decades. Not just a couple of successes a few years ago cause some dodgey Russian with a few spare million quid decided he was bored of his wife.
[quote]matko5 wrote:
tmoney1 wrote:
lamach wrote:
question for u american guys: why does chelsea seem so popular amongst those who watch football over there?
I think maybe it’s because a lot of people here like Man U, even without knowing a single player, and just because they are marketed well. So in some sort of retaliation, I think people will support other teams. Casual soccer fans will know the names of most teams (Real Madrid, Arsenal, etc) but real fans support Chelsea because they are awesome.
Lol
Chelsea plays the worst soccer :D[/quote]
Their style of play improved during last season from the boring Italian style that we saw the previous couple of seasons. They can be good to watch but nowhere near as exciting to watch asn Manu (hate to say it), Arsenal or Barca.
Here is what my football coach in high school told me: “Soccer is a sport for communists, sissies and girls” and my favorite “If my son told me he liked soccer, I’d disown her.”
My favorite anti-soccer saying though has to be: “Soccer is not a sport, its a reason for third world countries to riot”.
[quote]bconngemini wrote:
Why is a boring, unwatchable sport the most watched sport in the world?
As a red-blooded american I hate soccer. Yet I can’t ignore that its still the most watched TV sport in the world, while great exciting sports like NFL and MLB aren’t. Someone explain to me: how can such a boring, girly, unappealing sport be watched by people overseas and do they actually get excited by such a boring sport…is it because foreigners like being bored? Don’t they like excitement like the NFL?
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MLB …pffft
99.9% of Americans couldn’t name you one soccer team.
The 0.01% who could would be shunned and probably are illegal aliens. Immigrants who come here abondon soccer now that they have superior options to soccer (ie. Any american sport).
[quote]tom63 wrote:
Cockney Blue wrote:
bconngemini wrote:
Why would someone willingly get excited over something boring like soccer. Are they faking it? WHen Italians, Germans, Brazilians, Mexicans, Nigerians…etc say they find soccer exciting, are they being truthful in finding a boring slow low-scoring no action game exciting? or do they only say that because soccer is the only sport they can beat us in (only because we really really really don’t care abour soccer)?
Shit if you are too dumb to follow a soccer match (one of the simplest rule sets of any sport) how the hell do you follow baseball or NFL? I guess you just like it for those funny beer commercials every 10 seconds.
Not that I can’t follow it, I don’t want to. I can also follow waiting for water to boil, watching paint dry, but I don’t care about those either.[/quote]
Fine, if you don’t want to watch football then fine, nobody is going to force you. I find golf or tennis pretty boring, other people seem to like it. To each his own.
[quote]bconngemini wrote:
Here is what my football coach in high school told me: “Soccer is a sport for communists, sissies and girls” and my favorite “If my son told me he liked soccer, I’d disown her.”
My favorite anti-soccer saying though has to be: “Soccer is not a sport, its a reason for third world countries to riot”.[/quote]
So you have anti soccer sayings, enough of them to have a favourite. Most people over the age of 12 just avoid things they don’t like.
[quote]Huh? wrote:
tmoney1 wrote:
lamach wrote:
question for u american guys: why does chelsea seem so popular amongst those who watch football over there?
I think maybe it’s because a lot of people here like Man U, even without knowing a single player, and just because they are marketed well. So in some sort of retaliation, I think people will support other teams. Casual soccer fans will know the names of most teams (Real Madrid, Arsenal, etc) but real fans support Chelsea because they are awesome.
Actually Chelsea spend more on marketing in the US than any other team. Man United and Real Madrid concentrate on Asia cause it’s more lucrative. Chelsea spend almost every summer touring the US and consider it to be their core market outside the US.
People tend to follow United and Real because they actually have a history of success spanning decades. Not just a couple of successes a few years ago cause some dodgey Russian with a few spare million quid decided he was bored of his wife.
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HHMMM point taken. It just seems we are always having Man U shoved down our throats with Ronaldo (now gone) AIG ads (now gone) and just a lot of people wearing their merchandise. I read a lot of sports business articles, and obviously Man U comes up as one of the richest sport organizations in the world, Malcolm Glazer, etc, so maybe my view is skewed. As much I don’t like to say, I agree United has had a good history, good on them.
Because majority of the people in the world are still relatively in poor financial situations / deprivation and others sports are less accessible.
[quote]hawaiilifterMike wrote:
Because majority of the people in the world are still relatively in poor financial situations / deprivation and others sports are less accessible.
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I think if the poor british, italians and japanese had enough money for war pads, they’d stop watching soccer and start watching football. Perphaps its not soccer that they like, its just that they have no other option to watch but soccer. Do you think Europeans yearn for football but since they can’t afford all the super expensive equipment they have to SETTLE for soccer?
I think (read: know) that american football is dismissed as girly and boring by most europeans.
it’s a matter of what you like and what you’re conditioned to like
Soccer is not a sport, it is a GAME. The only sports are bull fighting, mountain climbing and auto racing. Everything else is just a game.
I’m not a soccer fan and classify it as a ladie’s activity. Kicking is what they do when they get into fights, not much difference on a huge field where it takes forever to play and winds up being a score of like 2:1 at the end.
BG