Poll of the Day > Soccer is boring.

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WC is a bore.

Sports in general is a bore and a waste of time and money.

Everything I don't like is stupid.

The Serie A is probably the best soccer has to offer... the lower brackets are just so much more intense

Well, like anything, I'd imagine it's better if you know what's going on. Personally, I don't watch any sports regularly anymore, but I never got into Soccer. Playing or watching. Too much going on for me to understand.

reason posted...

Well, like anything, I'd imagine it's better if you know what's going on. Personally, I don't watch any sports regularly anymore, but I never got into Soccer. Playing or watching. Too much going on for me to understand.

This. It helps if you understand the sport. Being ignorant of the actions on the field can impact the enjoyability for sure

Nah its fun watching actors perfectly emulate fish out of water.

Good-Grief posted...

This. It helps if you understand the sport. Being ignorant of the actions on the field can impact the enjoyability for sure

Soccer isn't rocket science. Don't use hands, use feet to get ball in opposite goal.

hypnox posted...

Soccer isn't rocket science. Don't use hands, use feet to get ball in opposite goal.

Not rocket science, sure. But there's a lot of strategy in how they post up and make their formations on the field, pressing the advantages of certain position players and/or accounting for disadvantages at other positions. Same with most sports. It's more involved than the uninitiated realize

^ Unless youre offsides, which is case on about a third of goals so they get waived off.

I understand the rules and tactics and its still pretty boring. Fun to play; not fun to watch. So far as I can tell its enjoyable for people to be a part of an intense fan basenot necessarily to watch the game.

Dont really care about most sports. I like live hockey games and golf is good for background noise and when I need to lower my heart rate. Football and Soccer are just fine, I wont complain if someone puts them on TV.

Even highlights of soccer are boring. Arguably more boring than golf, which has no "action".

people act like soccer is low scoring and therefore bad....I don't know. If there is only going to be a couple of goals a game, if that, it means I am sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for that moment or two that breaks the game open. However, some games are just bad 1-0 affairs, some are ridiculously exciting.

Agreed with this topic although I feel the same about most sports. I'm in England and football (soccer) is very popular over here. What irks me the most is when some fans are completely shocked when I say football doesn't interest me. Even more so when it's the world cup. They act like it's a right of passage or something.

I just hate how the clock works and the power of the refs (it is ref, right?).

Nothing pisses me off more than seeing the clock be like 79' + 4. The time bleed from flops and the seemingly arbitrary time adjustment just annoy me to the point of hating the game.

I went to a rugby game for the first time the other day

watched like minute thirty video in the rules

was fun I thought. never was much into sports but was a fun thing to attend

(also we won so that helped, and I was in the second or third row so could see things really up close!)

wwinterj25 posted...

Agreed with this topic although I feel the same about most sports. I'm in England and football (soccer) is very popular over here. What irks me the most is when some fans are completely shocked when I say football doesn't interest me. Even more so when it's the world cup. They act like it's a right of passage or something.

I've been kinda told to be careful about going to pubs with football here cause it gets so rowdy

I think I ready football games don't allow alcohol sales but rugby does here, due to the crowd behavioural differences which I think is pretty telling...

apparently domestic violence increases a lot after football matches too. losing more, but winning even still. likely from alcohol consumption associated with it

grimhilde00 posted...

I've been kinda told to be careful about going to pubs with football here cause it gets so rowdy

Scotland right? I can imagine the scotts getting rowdy. We sometiems have it over here but most the time I've no issue going to a boozer when football is on.

I think I ready football games don't allow alcohol sales but rugby does here, due to the crowd behavioural differences which I think is pretty telling...

I can see that being the case honestly. Rugby fans don't seem to be that bad. Even when I went to Wales they seemed calm enough.

apparently domestic violence increases a lot after football matches too. losing more, but winning even still. likely from alcohol consumption associated with it

Some folk can't handle their drink and ruin it for others.

wwinterj25 posted...

Scotland right? I can imagine the scotts getting rowdy.

well when I was applying for my visa I had to remember the dates for the last time I was in the UK for so many years

I had been to London twice before many years ago and the way I remember the dates was because it happened to be around football teams winning something and the entire city was crazy party hardy insane, so I just googled those years and football winnings to figure it out lol

anyway the domestic violence rate is UK wide

but yeah Celtic Vs Rangers is a _thing_

wwinterj25 posted...

I can see that being the case honestly. Rugby fans don't seem to be that bad. Even when I went to Wales they seemed calm enough.

but yeah a few people have told me, "football is a gentleman's sport played by hooligans and rugby is a hooligan's sport played by gentlemen" lol...

i like the boring sport baseball but i have no idea how people watch soccer. absolutely mind numbing.

I dont mind baseball. The games are fun to go to, which is what I usually judge sports by.

Wait, TC is that creepy foot fetishist, right?

grimhilde00 posted...

but yeah a few people have told me, "football is a gentleman's sport played by hooligans and rugby is a hooligan's sport played by gentlemen" lol...

I like this because it's true.

SoreChasm posted...

Wait, TC is that creepy foot fetishist, right?

I dont mean to be a buzzkill or anything but yes it is. He suicided his Alienallen account a week or two ago.

Shananagainz posted...

I dont mind baseball. The games are fun to go to, which is what I usually judge sports by.

That's the thing. It's boring to watch baseball on tv but incredible at a stadium.

Soccer is more entertaining in person. Basketball is extremely better in person.

Shananagainz posted...

I dont mind baseball. The games are fun to go to, which is what I usually judge sports by.

With a beer and some nachos.

Revelation34 posted...

That's the thing. It's boring to watch baseball on tv but incredible at a stadium.

I think most sports are boring on TV. I usually dont put them on when Im at home alone. If I have company that likes sports over, Ill put something current on since I have the hulu/Disney/espn bundle.

BigOlePappy posted...

With a beer and some nachos.

And a hot dog too. Great energy all around.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

i like the boring sport baseball but i have no idea how people watch soccer. absolutely mind numbing.

Same but baseball is a great deal more complex than soccer. Baseball is definitely vastly more enjoyable if you've played and understand the sport, but the level of depth compared to soccer is huge. I have a fairly solid understanding of soccer and baseball and baseball is waaaay more fun to watch for me

Baseball is complex but i actually dont know about more complex than soccer. The soccer tactics can be insane

The level of analytics in baseball is crazy compared to other sports. The depth of the game disregarding analytics is already fairly complex compared to other sports, but the application of analytics involved in every pitch and every at bat is insane

Very true.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sDbHwz6JGzo

wwinterj25 posted...

Scotland right? I can imagine the scotts getting rowdy.

You call this a soccer riot?
come on boys, let's take em to school

grimhilde00 posted...

but yeah a few people have told me, "football is a gentleman's sport played by hooligans and rugby is a hooligan's sport played by gentlemen" lol...

Rugby is played by private school kids while football is played by everyone. When I played rugby union for a private university, the team sheet was filled with the whitest and most preppy names I've ever seen and all the team social events were held in fancy places.

imCheatingdude posted...

Rugby is played by private school kids while football is played by everyone. When I played rugby union for a private university, the team sheet was filled with the whitest and most preppy names I've ever seen and all the team social events were held in fancy places.

are you in the states? idk the people I know who play rugby (not professionally) in Scotland are not posh...and the handful of people I know who played it in the states it was at state public universities

grimhilde00 posted...

are you in the states? idk the people I know who play rugby (not professionally) in Scotland are not posh...and the handful of people I know who played it in the states it was at state public universities

I think the quote is more referring to audiences and behaviour (here in the UK) and the roughness of the sport of football (soccer) vs rugby, but I might be mistaken

but I don't really know anything about sports

Australia, played for the University of Notre Dame Crusaders in 2012. In Sydney, the clubs were concentrated towards the affluent eastern suburbs and northern beaches, while everywhere else was more football and rugby league territory.

imCheatingdude posted...

Australia, played for the University of Notre Dame Crusaders in 2012. In Sydney, the clubs were concentrated towards the affluent eastern suburbs and northern beaches, while everywhere else was more football and rugby league territory.

ah cool

well yeah like I said, the only people I know in the states and Scotland who play aren't posh (one person I know personally grew up in council housing so). But it also was state schools or just amateur clubs.

what's the difference between clubs and rugby league >.>

Baseball is turn-based , where most other sports are real-time. hence baseball may feel slower or less action-y. on the contrary, baseball has more suspense than most real-time sports. which may be its main attraction and advantage over other sports.

Baseball is played in phases. thus one can hone in on specific phases, moments, or (pitcher-batter) matchups, when the tension and stakes are elevated.

OTOH soccer is real-time, but 90% of the time lacks tension, action, or suspense. Highlights aren't that amazing either. Obviously since the range of allowed physical and athletic moves are severely limited.

Overall, I think American football has the best combination of real-time action, suspense, phases, player-player matchups, tension, stakes, strategy, athleticism, and highlights.

So is Elden Ring but lots of people seem to like it

Krazy_Kirby posted...

You call this a soccer riot?
come on boys, let's take em to school

Great now all I can here is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84qWb8i_Q_A

grimhilde00 posted...

I think the quote is more referring to audiences and behaviour (here in the UK) and the roughness of the sport of football (soccer) vs rugby, but I might be mistaken

I'm just basing that quote on football vs rugby here in the UK too. Never really known sport fans in other countries so can't comment on how those compare really.

The US doesn't have sporting brawls or hooliganism in the same way. We think of Philly as having rough fans, but they're really just a bit more obnoxious than usual.

I have always connected the two topics in my mind. I assume that people get enjoyment our of watching European 'football' because they are connected to a fan base that has a strong self-identify. The identify is strong enough to fight for in extreme cases. So: these fans first and foremost like belonging to their team's 'tribe', even though the tribe only exists to root for one side of a sport that is otherwise rather boring. Just my theory.

wpot posted...

The US doesn't have sporting brawls or hooliganism in the same way. We think of Philly as having rough fans, but they're really just a bit more obnoxious than usual.

I have always connected the two topics in my mind. I assume that people get enjoyment our of watching European 'football' because they are connected to a fan base that has a strong self-identify. The identify is strong enough to fight for in extreme cases. So: these fans first and foremost like belonging to their team's 'tribe', even though the tribe only exists to root for one side of a sport that is otherwise rather boring. Just my theory.

Of course we do.

wpot posted...

So: these fans first and foremost like belonging to their team's 'tribe', even though the tribe only exists to root for one side of a sport that is otherwise rather boring.

when I moved here I found it interesting that fan tribes can be linked to politics too. In Scotland, historically, Catholics were Celtic fans and Protestants were Rangers fans. My SO is atheist but grew up Catholic and is a Celtic fan. And there's a loooot of history about Catholicism vs Protestantism here. I interviewed at a few places with HQs in Ireland or Northern Ireland and they had a question in their application if you were Catholic, Protestant, or other, like we do with ethnicity and other things to track discriminatory patterns. It's interesting.

I enjoy playing soccer but I just can't watch it, it's just watered down hockey

Revelation34 posted...

Of course we do.

We have our own issues and I'm not saying we're better, but the dislike between some fan bases goes deeper than anything I can think of in the US due to the political links/identities/etc. Their hooliganism takes a different character.

grimhilde00 posted...

that fan tribes can be linked to politics too

I think I said it earlier in this topic, but the one professional soccer game I attended in the US recently felt like a liberal political rally to the extent I couldn't imagine anyone conservative attending. It didn't bother me personally, but I can't think of any other US sporting event where I ever would have seen that. It seemed they were trying to make a English-style deeper fan connection.

Muscles posted...

it's just watered down hockey

My father loves hockey and it kills him every time I describe it as faster/higher-impact soccer, but that's basically what it is.

Half back passes to center...

wpot posted...

I think I said it earlier in this topic, but the one professional soccer game I attended in the US recently felt like a liberal political rally to the extent I couldn't imagine anyone conservative attending

lol

what were they doing? making some point for human rights?