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Peru 2-1 Bolivia
Panama 0 Argentina 6
Yesterday I saw the repetition of that match, crushing, no a single chance for the central americans, that happen when you face people that simply did not play football.
NFL is boring it's almost like watching paint dry. I'd prefer watching a soccer game to NFL as the play is contiuous and you get to watch the offence try and exploit the defence . How much time in a football game is watching the clock rundown with no action. I've been told there is actually less then 15 minutes of play in a 60 minute game
Ah, see that's where you're wrong.
Like when Germany plays San Marino and beat them 13-0. It really was a boring game...
The real reason football has such high ratings is the betting , I do watch NFL I live about 50 minutes away from the Bills , I also watch CFL but if given the option I prefer soccer and rugby over football . her is a comment I found elsewhere that says it better
"NFL fans know that games run three to three and half hours. And most of them know that the official game time is one hour. But how many know just how much actual play occurs? For how many minutes is the ball in play, from the time the center snaps it to the time the ref blows a play dead, during the course of those three hours?
About fifteen minutes, give or take a few.
That's it. That's all. Fifteen minutes of actual play. All the rest of the time you're looking at players standing around, instant replays, play reviews, officials jabbering, promos for next week's game or tonight's crime drama or comedy, commercials and more commercials and infamous commercial timeouts, players walking back to the huddle, players walking to the sideline, players occasionally throwing up, silly dances every time a player does something he's supposed to do, announcers jibbering, supercharged graphics displays instead of simple and quick informative displays, and so forth and so on for three endless hours. For putting up with all that fluffy nothing you get to see fifteen minutes of action. "
How is he wrong? Is he not allowed to have his opinion?
Just like you have yours about Soccer (which since you say he is wrong about the NFL I can say your opinion is wrong about soccer) he is entitled to have his opinion as well.
Kapish?
Only a select few watch soccer in this country, and most others make fun of them for it, i.e., people like me who play Football, Rugby, LaCrosse, Hockey, etc. We think it's a sport for girls, and we don't like it. Basically think the reverse of what Europe thinks about American football and you have soccer in the states. except for a couple million people (out of 300 million), no one likes the sport here.