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Post by grits on Dec 29, 2013 19:50:31 GMT -5
In rugby, they get so wild they rip men's shorts off. Abroad, they may prefer broads.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 29, 2013 20:05:19 GMT -5
In rugby, they get so wild they rip men's shorts off.
Why don't I watch more rugby?
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Post by grits on Dec 29, 2013 20:06:43 GMT -5
You should record it, and watch it when nobody else is around.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Dec 29, 2013 20:07:24 GMT -5
I can understand people who think football is slow. My understanding is soccer is played almost continually, whereas football is a series of plays. Sometimes there can be several minutes in between plays, like if a play is challenged.
For the record, I find them all kind of dull. I've never been much into sports.
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Post by chiver78 on Dec 29, 2013 20:22:35 GMT -5
It's partly regional and partly financial. As a kid I didn't even know lacrosse was a real sport. Never saw it played, nobody I knew played it, the only reason I knew it existed where the occasional television reference, usually with the jerk rich kid in whatever Disney movie being a lacrosse player. I thought it was roughly on par with squash, croquet, and sailing. One of those things only rich white people do. in the town where I went to HS, there wasn't a lacrosse team while I was a student. when the student population shrunk, the consensus was that the lacrosse team was "stealing" baseball players - from a team that had produced state championships and near-misses. so lacrosse was removed from the offerings. guess my hometown wasn't nearly as rich then as it is now....
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Post by Phoenix84 on Dec 29, 2013 20:25:57 GMT -5
Thyme4change might be on to something.
Football requires a lot of people and equipment. All you need to play soccer is a ball. You can even kick and work on your ball control by yourself. So perhaps it's popular because you don't need many resources/money to play it. For this reason, it may be more popular in less wealthy countries.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Dec 29, 2013 20:30:15 GMT -5
They are different types of injuries but I know a lot of girls with knee injuries and ACL/MCL injuries from playing soccer. Not the same as some of the football injuries though. In my area, that's why soccer was losing popularity. I don't think any of the 4 year players on my high school girls team made it through without either tearing their ACL/MCL or injuring their knee one year. I saw something a couple years ago about why girls were more prone to these injuries but I don't remember all the logic. In my world, hockey and lacrosse were rich kid sports. There was none of that where I grew up. I'd seen ice hockey on tv but I had zero exposure to lacrosse until moving to the Baltimore/DC area. I would say it isn't as popular because it is so different from other sports they are used to. Hockey is another sport that requires a lot of equipment.
I'm not that familiar with lacrosse. A few of my classmates in high school played it. But I don't think I've ever actually seen it played.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 29, 2013 20:37:32 GMT -5
And an ice rink!
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Post by Regis on Dec 29, 2013 20:46:10 GMT -5
This is another reason that soccer is gaining fans in the US. Soccer leagues are capturing more kids. Many parents like it better because of the press around safety issues with football. (I think the amount of concussions from soccer and the damage that can be done there is still a secret.) Many kids like it better because they don't have to put on heavy, hot, stinky pads or wear helmets, etc. You might be right about soccer gaining popularity in the U.S. Indianapolis is getting a professional soccer team from what I hear. Already got my season tickets for the Indy Eleven. They'll be playing in the NASL. I love both soccer and football - for different reasons although one common theme is that I like competition. Was at the Colts game today.
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Post by Regis on Dec 29, 2013 20:48:21 GMT -5
I suppose I should ask the inverse question too.
Why isn't soccer more popular in the United States? It is gaining. The number of kids playing soccer has doubled in 20 years. I think MLS will see the benefits of that over the next 10 years or so. The fact that we now have an MLS is an indicator that it is a growing sport. Creating passion for a sport is a long process. It doesn't happen overnight. The MLS has been around for nearly 20 years now - it's not new.
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Post by Sunnyday on Dec 29, 2013 21:26:51 GMT -5
I echo the equipment and money thing.
soccer requires very little. And you can and people fashion soccer balls out of recycled materials. So no money.
Soccer fields take less space too. Not by chance that football is popular in North America.
And totally disagree that it's about Americans liking violence. Rugby (football like) is way more violent and other sports too.
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 29, 2013 21:35:50 GMT -5
I didn't say it was new - but I can see how it sounded that way. I think I meant to say that because the MLS league has been established and is gaining in quality, and is growing, adding new teams and gaining more fans, we can surmise that soccer is a growing sport in the USA.
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