TheNewGuy Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Yay, we just pwnd you in football (translation: soccer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valsgarde Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 America is too busy playing Team Rocket to care about soccer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H&R Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyzarius Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 haha, nice. course didnt we beat sweden out of the qualifying round to the '98 world cup as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zrothum Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 I haven't watched soccer since Alexi Lalas went into management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H&R Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 haha, nice. course didnt we beat sweden out of the qualifying round to the '98 world cup as well? haha, nice. You read it wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNewGuy Posted August 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 haha, nice. course didnt we beat sweden out of the qualifying round to the '98 world cup as well? No, that would be another team, as USA would never face a Eurpean country in qualifying for the world cup. And it was WE who beat YOUR sorry asses today, if you missed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyzarius Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 no, I didnt misread it actually am glad sweden won. I enjoy a good game...never care who wins really. Am very very dissapointed with the current US team. and maybe I am thinking of a different tournament/cup, oh well edit: oh no! I was right, not qualifier though. but on 1-24-1998 US beat Sweden 1-0 in Orlando Florida. Of course thats the last decent US team fielded since..imho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNewGuy Posted August 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 I'd say USA played pretty well, at least in the first half, even though our team generated better chances. Overall it was a very good game, with a high tempo. At least for a friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyzarius Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 thats good to hear, not the apathetic laid back "let everyone dominate us" attitude the US team seemed to have in the last WC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNewGuy Posted August 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 Wtf? Your team did quite well then. Was a tough group. Czech, Itlay, Ghana, that's some damn good teams, spec the first two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfdude Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Oh soccer? I thought you were talking about a REAL man sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNewGuy Posted August 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Ah, right, it's just the biggest sport in the world, nobody should care about that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L-A Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Ah' date=' right, it's just the biggest sport in the world, nobody should care about that... [/quote'] Lots of pansies in the world :-P L-A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister E Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 I concur...Soccer might be fun to watch if there is no better sport on at the time, and if FL is down, and if there are no girls to hang out with, or money to make working, or sleeping to get done...Yep I'd watch soccer if no other sport existed, was unemployed, single, and insomniac, and didnt know FL existed. edit:Actually...I dont dislike soccer at all, I respect the game, the skilled players, and love soccer highlite reels. It just happens to be my least favourite sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chayesh Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 I'd have posted earlier but my keyboard short circuited after I drooled on it when my eyes glazed over just thinking about watching soccer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyeSeeU Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Lets see Sweeden put together a football(USA football) team and beat anyone of our 32 NFL teams in a exibition match. I played soccer for a long time, and besides all the running around I find it to be the most boring wimpiest sport in the world. I however would like to see Europe(its countries) and other countries become involved in the NFL. Maybe even be thrown into the schedule of the NFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valsgarde Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 If you want to play the manliness card, then what about hockey or world's strongest man competitions, both of which are manlier than American football, both of which are dominated almost entirely by Europeans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyeSeeU Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Ice hockey has far less contact then american football does, I've played Ice hockey I know. However I wasn't trying to play any card, The game was an exibition game, which means nothing.... Thus is why I said for Sweeden or any other country to get up a Pro Football(american football) team and play one of our 32. World's strongest man competitions are cool if you like lifting weights and shrinking the male area which most of us would not like shrinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolgan Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 American fotball? American football? Thats like ruggby but with fluffy shoulder pads and lots of rest between playes, right? Yeah, thats a real many sport. Throw in a pink purse with all those shoulderpads and it will be perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valsgarde Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Less contact? People literally toss their gloves off and beat each other's faces in. And rugby, thrice the physical contact as American football. A good medic should be able to stitch up a fella then have him back in the game in fifteen seconds. Rugby is bloody dangerous, dude. It's like football, but with giant angry Europeans and no pads. Way more dangerous and physically demanding than the fat afro-sumo competitions with pads that is American football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekky Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Oi, some respect for the two greatest rugby nations on earth here: Australia and New Zealand. We regularly wipe out those giant angry European pansies :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyeSeeU Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Rugby is tough and perhaps tougher then football in the sense there are no pads. However they do not hit you with the shoulder to your head in rugby like american football does. I will make one argument for hockey compared to football, when I was playing both, coaches told me to try and KILL the person when I made contact with them in football. In hockey contact was to be avoided at all costs because it slows you down. Fighting occurs in hockey however it is not even done every game now. Even with it... it still doesn't make it more gut pounding then football. There are no 300+ pound lineman doing dive bombs on your body in hockey. In hockey you dont play with broken wrists,hand,finger(s),ribs... I could go on and on with the injuries and playing with them. Football>>>hockey, the masters of the gridiron will always get my nod for toughness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNewGuy Posted August 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Lets see Sweeden put together a football(USA football) team and beat anyone of our 32 NFL teams in a exibition match. I played soccer for a long time' date=' and besides all the running around I find it to be the most boring wimpiest sport in the world. I however would like to see Europe(its countries) and other countries become involved in the NFL. Maybe even be thrown into the schedule of the NFL.[/quote'] It's called American football in the rest of the world (you know, where "soccer" is football), for a reason. You are the only ones who play it, because you're the only ones who need pillows to play rugby. So, well, there more or less ARE no Am footie players in Sweden. Though I think we actually had a kicker (whatever those do ) in NFL once upon a time... And my little brothers former teacher plays it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyeSeeU Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 My philadelphia eagles picked up a former Australian rugby player to be a punter in training camp, he said that some of the hits hes felt in American football are much worse then in rugby. Rugby is not like football without pads, football is much more technical, much more like a chess game with human pieces. Despite what you think There is NFL Europe in which American football is played...FYI. I guess your statements about only americans playing it isn't correct... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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