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LuckyChippy
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Lol owned.
Spain has been blessed with a generation of footballers who are out of this world with a style of play that mesmerises.
We finished 4th place at the last Olympics which is a great effort for our small country. I think it spreads our top athletes out quite thin. We're arguably at this moment the best cricket team in the world having been to Australia and destroyed them, our rugby team isn't faring too well atm tho
. We have Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button and a cycling team that destroyed the olympics. The problem with getting into the olympics and things like tennis is that it's inevitably British and causes problems with comparing England against other countries.We've been making up excuses for not winning a world cup though for around about 40 years now
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ya and listening to them is so much easier on the ears than the US broadcasters
OMFG +1!!
He's got it, he hits at the upper 90!
WTF??
vanquish
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time to straighten you guys out
people from outside of north america have lots of respect for soccer because it's embedded in the culture.
you go out into a busto ass serbian parking lot and you'll see little kids kicking around a soccer ball that someone's mom made out of the uterus of a dead cow and having a blast while their dads drink 9.5% ABV beer and yell at the TV set for 2 hrs while watching a nailbiting game that will determine whether or not the team from their shitty town will relegate out of the top serbian league back to division 2 where they play in a 4,000 person stadium built on what was once a minefield.
you go to ****ing ghana and you'll see teenagers that are HIV positive running around for hours on end barefoot in the sand passing around a soccer ball while their dads aim AK-47s at each other over who gets to keep the gold tooth they found on a corpse in the swamp. for these teenagers soccer is an escape from reality and they have dreams of playing on the world biggest stage in the WORLD CUP OF OMFG I'M GONNA BUST A NUT IF I EVEN GET A GLIMPSE OF IT (then they miss a crucial penalty kick and their dreams evaporate faster than the drinking water that they have to walk 12 miles to on a daily basis).
you go to england and you see a bunch of snobby dinks who can't stop crying because RUSSIA GOT WORLD CUP OF 2018 BITCHEEEES
you go anywhere in europe and see people watching their favorite teams spending 500 million euros to buy all the best players so they have a chance to win the champions league/whatever series.
now,
you go to america and turn on the TV and you get access to 80000 channels of massive black people jumping over each other, hitting each other, running away from each other and performing other various tasks that enormous black people are extremely good at. you also get the added bonus of 300 stoppages per game so you can watch the instant replay, go grab another beer, talk to ur friends about osama bin laden's whereabouts, dip your nachos into salsa, etc. etc whatever.
you are also sometimes treated to the delight of watching a white guy who is not nearly as athletic as all the black guys be completely in control of a game and get the spotlight/all the endorsements/the hot wife/a billion dollars.
this feeds into the collective ADD of the country and is exacerbated by the fact that there is a lot more scoring in american sports (who wants to watch a 0-0 game when you can watch a 31-28 game?) and a lot more physical aggression (who wants to watch a skinny french guy dive and fake an injury for 5 minutes when you can watch a 400 lb monster attacking a 180 lb white guy?)
once you introduce the physical aspects, it becomes a question of your manhood. to americans, it is not impressive to watch a 5'6, 140 lb 20 year old jog for 8 miles over the course of a 90-minute snorefest. people do this on treadmills all the time. no no no, i want to see blake griffin dunking a basketball while jumping over a car, because its impressive to me. i could never achieve that, and i certainly couldn't drive my car with AWD and air conditioning and an ipod adapter 3 blocks to the gym to watch anyone else do it either.
hockey is an even sexier animal because you get to see guys with no teeth and scars all over their face bareknuckle box each other over a few words about whose girlfriend was or was not dirtier in bed. you see ovechkin traveling 30 miles an hour on skates, crushing some guy's head into mush and then shooting a puck with surgical precision past a goalie who, with pads, covers 99% of the net, and you can't help but pop a boner. seeing a guy kick a soccer ball at a net that's 20 feet wide and 12 feet tall while the goalie dives in a completely different direction just isn't impressive after that.
this is not to say that attending a soccer match isn't a great experience, or that the world cup isn't passionate and inspiring, but i want sports on steroids. world cup final? oh yeah once every 48 months and boooring 1-0 divefest with a few moments of awesomeness interspersed throughout
super bowl? oh yeah every year and the bars are packed and the beers are flowing and no one's paying any attention but goddamn it when roethlisberger gets sacked, you know i'm dippin my chicken wings in that blue cheese dressing, and when aaron rodgers throws a touchdown you know i'm spending another $20 for a pitcher of bud. sorry, old guys wearing inter milan hats who sit silently and watch 0-0 games and complain for 3 weeks after the game and drink 1 pint and smell like butt, i want LOUD AND ANGRY AND ROWDY AND 5 LEAD CHANGES AND 4 TOUCHDOWNS FOR YOUNG TOM BRADY, GTFO OUT OF MAH COUNTRY!!
I’m gonna rise up,
I’m gonna to kick a little ass,
I’m gonna to kick some ass in the U.S.A.,
gonna climb a mountain,
gonna sew a flag,
gonna fly on an eagle.
I’m gonna kick some butt,
I’m gonna drive a big truck,
I’m gonna rule this world,
I’m gonna kick some ass,
I’m gonna rise up,
I’m gonna kick a little ass.
ROCK, FLAG and EAGLE!!
people from outside of north america have lots of respect for soccer because it's embedded in the culture.
you go out into a busto ass serbian parking lot and you'll see little kids kicking around a soccer ball that someone's mom made out of the uterus of a dead cow and having a blast while their dads drink 9.5% ABV beer and yell at the TV set for 2 hrs while watching a nailbiting game that will determine whether or not the team from their shitty town will relegate out of the top serbian league back to division 2 where they play in a 4,000 person stadium built on what was once a minefield.
you go to ****ing ghana and you'll see teenagers that are HIV positive running around for hours on end barefoot in the sand passing around a soccer ball while their dads aim AK-47s at each other over who gets to keep the gold tooth they found on a corpse in the swamp. for these teenagers soccer is an escape from reality and they have dreams of playing on the world biggest stage in the WORLD CUP OF OMFG I'M GONNA BUST A NUT IF I EVEN GET A GLIMPSE OF IT (then they miss a crucial penalty kick and their dreams evaporate faster than the drinking water that they have to walk 12 miles to on a daily basis).
you go to england and you see a bunch of snobby dinks who can't stop crying because RUSSIA GOT WORLD CUP OF 2018 BITCHEEEES
you go anywhere in europe and see people watching their favorite teams spending 500 million euros to buy all the best players so they have a chance to win the champions league/whatever series.
now,
you go to america and turn on the TV and you get access to 80000 channels of massive black people jumping over each other, hitting each other, running away from each other and performing other various tasks that enormous black people are extremely good at. you also get the added bonus of 300 stoppages per game so you can watch the instant replay, go grab another beer, talk to ur friends about osama bin laden's whereabouts, dip your nachos into salsa, etc. etc whatever.
you are also sometimes treated to the delight of watching a white guy who is not nearly as athletic as all the black guys be completely in control of a game and get the spotlight/all the endorsements/the hot wife/a billion dollars.
this feeds into the collective ADD of the country and is exacerbated by the fact that there is a lot more scoring in american sports (who wants to watch a 0-0 game when you can watch a 31-28 game?) and a lot more physical aggression (who wants to watch a skinny french guy dive and fake an injury for 5 minutes when you can watch a 400 lb monster attacking a 180 lb white guy?)
once you introduce the physical aspects, it becomes a question of your manhood. to americans, it is not impressive to watch a 5'6, 140 lb 20 year old jog for 8 miles over the course of a 90-minute snorefest. people do this on treadmills all the time. no no no, i want to see blake griffin dunking a basketball while jumping over a car, because its impressive to me. i could never achieve that, and i certainly couldn't drive my car with AWD and air conditioning and an ipod adapter 3 blocks to the gym to watch anyone else do it either.
hockey is an even sexier animal because you get to see guys with no teeth and scars all over their face bareknuckle box each other over a few words about whose girlfriend was or was not dirtier in bed. you see ovechkin traveling 30 miles an hour on skates, crushing some guy's head into mush and then shooting a puck with surgical precision past a goalie who, with pads, covers 99% of the net, and you can't help but pop a boner. seeing a guy kick a soccer ball at a net that's 20 feet wide and 12 feet tall while the goalie dives in a completely different direction just isn't impressive after that.
this is not to say that attending a soccer match isn't a great experience, or that the world cup isn't passionate and inspiring, but i want sports on steroids. world cup final? oh yeah once every 48 months and boooring 1-0 divefest with a few moments of awesomeness interspersed throughout
super bowl? oh yeah every year and the bars are packed and the beers are flowing and no one's paying any attention but goddamn it when roethlisberger gets sacked, you know i'm dippin my chicken wings in that blue cheese dressing, and when aaron rodgers throws a touchdown you know i'm spending another $20 for a pitcher of bud. sorry, old guys wearing inter milan hats who sit silently and watch 0-0 games and complain for 3 weeks after the game and drink 1 pint and smell like butt, i want LOUD AND ANGRY AND ROWDY AND 5 LEAD CHANGES AND 4 TOUCHDOWNS FOR YOUNG TOM BRADY, GTFO OUT OF MAH COUNTRY!!
I’m gonna rise up,
I’m gonna to kick a little ass,
I’m gonna to kick some ass in the U.S.A.,
gonna climb a mountain,
gonna sew a flag,
gonna fly on an eagle.
I’m gonna kick some butt,
I’m gonna drive a big truck,
I’m gonna rule this world,
I’m gonna kick some ass,
I’m gonna rise up,
I’m gonna kick a little ass.
ROCK, FLAG and EAGLE!!
TylerN
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LuckyChippy
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hahaha no one can win against Vanquish, it was only a matter of time. You explained Americas love for its sports perfectly.
Each to there own. As I've said, I enjoy certain American sports, and for me Football and it's world cup will always be my favourite and the beautiful game.
I don't expect Americans to love it, but I expect Americans to say, you have your game, cool. We have ours.
Each to there own. As I've said, I enjoy certain American sports, and for me Football and it's world cup will always be my favourite and the beautiful game.
I don't expect Americans to love it, but I expect Americans to say, you have your game, cool. We have ours.
LuckyChippy
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Lol this. Americans truly don't realise how alien they are to the rest of the world and it's THEM that are different, not all those other wierdos outside of the US.
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Yeah I think that is the major point instead of just being like, so boring.
acky100
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+1 hehe
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