OldSkool97 Posted June 26, 2010 Report Posted June 26, 2010 Click on the link to view the video of America's reaction to Landon Donovan's goal. http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/news/student-s-video-tribute-to-donovan-a-hit--fbintl_ro-videodonovan062510.htmlGreat Video!!
hj_hawk_60 Posted June 28, 2010 Report Posted June 28, 2010 Amazing Video, got chills while watching it.. Sad that the run had to end, but it was a fun year to watch..
bullets13 Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 what an amazing video! anyone who thinks that soccer is irrelevant in America needs to watch that video. I'd challenge them to find a more passionate group of fans.
westend1 Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 Wow! All 20,000 soccer fans in the US were pumped.
Bon_Mot Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 [quote name="westend1" post="815186" timestamp="1277819600"]Wow! All 20,000 soccer fans in the US were pumped.[/quote]trollYou know what I find exciting: Baseball. Anytime you can give me 6 minutes of action squeezed into 4 hours, sign me up. You know what's thrilling: the pick off move.You know what gets me going like 5 hour energy: Watching a relief pitcher warm up. You want to see a prime athlete: 1st basemen.You want to see another sport loaded with action: football. An average play lasts all of 5 to 7 seconds, and in that time they work sooo hard, they get almost a minute to recover for the next play. [i]And[/i] these guys work so hard during a drive, they only have to play on one side of the ball. [b]AND[/b] since there's so much action, theses guys get[u] SIX [/u] timeouts [u]EACH[/u], [u]TWENTY[/u] two minute tv timeouts, and breaks for quarters and halftime. I'm exhausted just thinking about resting that much. The Wall Street Journal analyzed 4 televised games this past season and found out that the ball was actually in play for 11 minutes. 11 MINUTES! That's action! A friend of mine works at a bar in Austin and they've had to open at 6:30 in the morning several times and have had people waiting in line. And it's like that all over the US. In Beaumont, not so much. Which is surprising since the Golden Triangle is seen throughout the state as an area on the forefront of everything cool and innovative... Do I think that this World Cup won over tons of fans in the US? No. I'm not that naive. But what it did do was expose soccer as a viable second tier sport behind the big three. And you know what, these fans are young, multi-cultural, and most importantly PASSIONATE. Footbal and basketball aren't going anywhere, but baseball is losing fans by the boatload. And it's current fanbase is old, old, old.Finally, I hope you realize that when a football game ends 21 - 14, that these teams didn't score 21 times and 14 times respectively. You realize that this was 3 to 2, right?
RonBurgundy68 Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 [quote name="westend1" post="815186" timestamp="1277819600"]Wow! All 20,000 soccer fans in the US were pumped.[/quote]Dude, are you serious?
dav-joel Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 [quote name="Bon_Mot" post="815191" timestamp="1277823486"][quote author=westend1 link=topic=70724.msg815186#msg815186 date=1277819600]Wow! All 20,000 soccer fans in the US were pumped.[/quote]trollYou know what I find exciting: Baseball. Anytime you can give me 6 minutes of action squeezed into 4 hours, sign me up. You know what's thrilling: the pick off move.You know what gets me going like 5 hour energy: Watching a relief pitcher warm up. You want to see a prime athlete: 1st basemen.You want to see another sport loaded with action: football. An average play lasts all of 5 to 7 seconds, and in that time they work sooo hard, they get almost a minute to recover for the next play. [i]And[/i] these guys work so hard during a drive, they only have to play on one side of the ball. [b]AND[/b] since there's so much action, theses guys get[u] SIX [/u] timeouts [u]EACH[/u], [u]TWENTY[/u] two minute tv timeouts, and breaks for quarters and halftime. I'm exhausted just thinking about resting that much. The Wall Street Journal analyzed 4 televised games this past season and found out that the ball was actually in play for 11 minutes. 11 MINUTES! That's action! A friend of mine works at a bar in Austin and they've had to open at 6:30 in the morning several times and have had people waiting in line. And it's like that all over the US. In Beaumont, not so much. Which is surprising since the Golden Triangle is seen throughout the state as an area on the forefront of everything cool and innovative... Do I think that this World Cup won over tons of fans in the US? No. I'm not that naive. But what it did do was expose soccer as a viable second tier sport behind the big three. And you what, these fans are young, multi-cultural, and most importantly PASSIONATE. Footbal and basketball aren't going anywhere, but baseball is losing fans by the boatload. And it's current fanbase is old, old, old.Finally, I hope you realize that when a football game ends 21 - 14, that these teams didn't score 21 times and 14 times respectively. You realize that that this was 3 to 2, right?[/quote]I think soccer has just seen its first SLAM DUNK! ;D
Bon_Mot Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 westend, I don't know how good you are with numbers, but you were off a little:From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/sports/soccer/29sandomir.html?ref=soccerOn Saturday, the United States’ loss to Ghana was seen by 14.9 million on ABC — an American record for the tournament — and an additional 4.5 million on Univision. That’s 19.4 million viewers for a Round of 16 game on a Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Eastern — the same number that Fox averaged over six prime-time games for last year’s World Series.
westend1 Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 Lol! Nothing like stirring up passionate soccer fans. (There are at least 5 or 6 on this site alone)
westend1 Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 [quote name="Newbie" post="815232" timestamp="1277833696"]YUP you stirred up a hornets nest LOL. [/quote]Some people are so uptight over a perceived slight to their chosen sport, that they lose all sense of humor. :)
Guest Newbie Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 The problem with bulletin boards is, you can't tell facial expressions. Glad you graced our sport with your comments no matter how unpopular. :P
westend1 Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 I actually watched some World cup, but that doesn't mean I'm going to start watching MLS anytime soon. Is there still Major League Soccer>??
RonBurgundy68 Posted June 29, 2010 Report Posted June 29, 2010 [quote name="westend1" post="815242" timestamp="1277836507"]I actually watched some World cup, but that doesn't mean I'm going to start watching MLS anytime soon. Is there still Major League Soccer>??[/quote]Lol yep. It's so boring to watch though after watching the World Cup and the Premier League.
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