I happen to enjoy both football and soccer. I enjoyed playing Soccer more than Football, but man, watching a Soccer game is one of the more boaring things to do in professional sports. The only sports I find more boring to watch are Golf and Cheerleading. And calling those sports is quite debatable in my mind. But yes it is true that Soccer (aka Football)is not all that mainstream a sport here in the US. The TV coverage is horrible, it has no adult fanfare. The only people that watch soccer are the kids parents. Football (aka Grid Iron) on the other hand has everything that soccer doesn't here in the US. Except for a certain 14 year old draft pick that is making half a million a year. Am I trying to make a point? No, I think I was really just bored and wanted to talk about sports on a music list. And I am not sorry about it being off topic. I just think maybe people should grow up a little, stop pointing fingers and bitching about the way things are done over seas. Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:45 AM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Trainspotting ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Ian Malbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Clearly we're not talking about American "football" here. > >Unfortunately, "Soccer" in the U.S. is a pastime left to mainstream >parents who are obsessive most about their own children (most of whom >have purchased neither vinyl nor train tickets in their lives). > >The linkage is lost on most yanks. > >Sorry for the sidenote. I'd love to imagine a future where lots of >Detroit kids are into soccer/football and techno simultaneously... why is that? do you have something against american football? it is possible to like and play both sports you know. if you wanna be one of those people who looks down on football because its so physical then f*ck you. how about that? no offense to soccer (i love the sport) but football is very much like chess and soccer has nothing in that sort of strategy going for it. theyre both good in their own way. i just hate people who talk down on football because of some poor personal relationship they had with jocks in high school or whatever. grow up. tom ________________________________________________________________ andythepooh.com
