When thinking about sports I am considered by some to be a neanderthal. I make no apologies for the fact that I love football (I am from the southern region of the United States, football to me does not mean football to someone from Brazil, and I really don't care if you want to play linguistic games, numbers games on language usage, etc. football requires helmets and pads and people hitting each other intentionally). My second favorite sport is rugby, we can hit people without pads being worn (Australian Rules Football is close in my esteem to rugby). Baseball and softball follow football and rugby, my favorite college programs did/are doing well. Alabama made it to the Womens College World Series in softball, hats off to Florida for their victory. Texas Tech (I spent 6 years in the bleachers above the first base dugout, held unofficial office hours there during the season--bought an extra season ticket so students could come talk to me during games) has reached the College World Series in baseball for their first trip to Omaha.
No where in my list is soccer, yes soccer--it is not "football". I go Carlinesque on soccer, not really a sport because there are spots on the ball (yes, I know contemporary soccer balls do not all have spots). In my little slice of the world, soccer was the sport played by youth whose parents would not let them play football for fear of injury, or any other reason. To be honest, I realize that soccer has some benefit on the cost-benefit scale of physical activity because it does not require expensive protective gear for people to play the game and people can still get a good dose of exercise playing the game. Pretty sure this reasoning would put ultimate frisbee in the category of game--extremely physical, but not really a sport because most people can toss a frisbee around at a family picinic and frisbees remind me of pot addled mullet heads from my youth--and I like ultimate frisbee.
Anyway, I guess I am one of the minority of people in this world (yes, soccer is followed by more people and a game played by more people than those who watch or play football) who can honestly say about the upcoming month of games in Brazil, oh well... For my two cents, what the heck is wrong with not liking soccer? You may not like football, so you can say "oh well" during the super bowl or during college bowl season while fans of the game like myself watch the R&L Carriers Bowl between two teams that have no business in a bowl game, but hey it is football.
Keeping my own two cents in mind, here is the late George Carlin talking about sports. Get a grip, don't get upset about being comical about your favorite games/sports. The funniest stuff starts around 2:45 into the 10 minute routine.
No where in my list is soccer, yes soccer--it is not "football". I go Carlinesque on soccer, not really a sport because there are spots on the ball (yes, I know contemporary soccer balls do not all have spots). In my little slice of the world, soccer was the sport played by youth whose parents would not let them play football for fear of injury, or any other reason. To be honest, I realize that soccer has some benefit on the cost-benefit scale of physical activity because it does not require expensive protective gear for people to play the game and people can still get a good dose of exercise playing the game. Pretty sure this reasoning would put ultimate frisbee in the category of game--extremely physical, but not really a sport because most people can toss a frisbee around at a family picinic and frisbees remind me of pot addled mullet heads from my youth--and I like ultimate frisbee.
Anyway, I guess I am one of the minority of people in this world (yes, soccer is followed by more people and a game played by more people than those who watch or play football) who can honestly say about the upcoming month of games in Brazil, oh well... For my two cents, what the heck is wrong with not liking soccer? You may not like football, so you can say "oh well" during the super bowl or during college bowl season while fans of the game like myself watch the R&L Carriers Bowl between two teams that have no business in a bowl game, but hey it is football.
Keeping my own two cents in mind, here is the late George Carlin talking about sports. Get a grip, don't get upset about being comical about your favorite games/sports. The funniest stuff starts around 2:45 into the 10 minute routine.
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