USA only country in the world where life does not come to a halt when it's soccer team plays in WC

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is sad at all. I don't know anyone who watches soccer as an adult.

America does come to a halt on Superbowl Sunday. And have you heard of March Madness?

America population = 330 million

World population = BILLIONS

It's no use, PP. I am French, so of course ***football*** is important in my country. But the average American barely acknowledges the existence of terrain and peoples outside of their national border, except as convenient targets during political campaigns against immigrants. Obviously they will all fail to grasp that hardly anyone outside the US cares at all about their little American version of football, their baseball, their basketball (we do have a French basketball prodigy, but not a lot of people have heard about him). Typical chauvinism.

LOL, I occasionally forget how tedious and smug the French can be. Thanks for the reminder! And with utterly no basis whatsoever—you’ve never won a real war, your contributions to Western culture (pre- and post-Renaissance) are de minimis—way underwhelming on a pro rata basis. Your GDP is less than
Connecticut’s. Your food is mostly garbage other than adding butter and cream to stuff everyone has. You stink. Like in terms of odor, you smell bad. You smoke and your teeth are gross.

Saying this as an American who just took the afternoon off to watch a super mediocre performance by USMNT. The pub was pretty full for a Monday afternoon. So while I agree the U.S. doesn’t shut down I think OP is exaggerating. But also yeah, who cares whether we as a nation are taking the WC seriously enough? Like, why do you care about this as an issue?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. It's fascinating to me to read about people's differing opinions about sports. I love soccer--there's 45+ straight minutes of action before a break, and then another 45+. It has completely ruined me for American football, where play stops seemingly every few seconds, and there are so many ads that sometimes I wonder if I am watching an ad reel, with a few moments of football sprinkled in.

But there’s a difference in the action that’s taking place during play. Soccer moves more slowly than football overall. Each play in football lasts like 1 minute and there’s a lot happening during the play.

And anyway, there’s plenty of stopping during soccer for all of the flopping and dramatic overreactions to “fouls.”

Each play in football doesn’t last one minute. More like about 6 or 7 seconds from snap to tackle.

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I love hockey.

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I'm the French poster.

Wow, I hit a nerve!

Sorry, I don't feel insulted at all. You guys make me laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is sad at all. I don't know anyone who watches soccer as an adult.

America does come to a halt on Superbowl Sunday. And have you heard of March Madness?

America population = 330 million

World population = BILLIONS

It's no use, PP. I am French, so of course ***football*** is important in my country. But the average American barely acknowledges the existence of terrain and peoples outside of their national border, except as convenient targets during political campaigns against immigrants. Obviously they will all fail to grasp that hardly anyone outside the US cares at all about their little American version of football, their baseball, their basketball (we do have a French basketball prodigy, but not a lot of people have heard about him). Typical chauvinism.

LOL, I occasionally forget how tedious and smug the French can be. Thanks for the reminder! And with utterly no basis whatsoever—you’ve never won a real war, your contributions to Western culture (pre- and post-Renaissance) are de minimis—way underwhelming on a pro rata basis. Your GDP is less than
Connecticut’s. Your food is mostly garbage other than adding butter and cream to stuff everyone has. You stink. Like in terms of odor, you smell bad. You smoke and your teeth are gross.

Saying this as an American who just took the afternoon off to watch a super mediocre performance by USMNT. The pub was pretty full for a Monday afternoon. So while I agree the U.S. doesn’t shut down I think OP is exaggerating. But also yeah, who cares whether we as a nation are taking the WC seriously enough? Like, why do you care about this as an issue?

American here. You just demonstrated how little you know about history. We’d likely be British subjects without the French and their contributions to art, law, history and culture are too numerous to name.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s terrible to watch - and not what Americans like to watch. Soccer is now dominated by grown men pretending to be hurt. Americans like toughness- hockey fights, football tackles, etc. Nothing masculine about pretending to be hurt. I just can’t watch.

You don’t know anything about soccer. If you did you would understand the different styles of play by different regions of the world but you are happier licking chicken juice off your fingers and watching obese men slam into each other.

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Good riddance to this terribly corrupt tournament. Sepp Blatter is a stain on global soccer; Infantino is no better. The Swiss are incredibly corrupt stewards of FIFA.

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It’s their loss, OP. We are massive fans and know a player on the team from our hometown. We are taking off work the whole week and watching as many games as we can (and lamenting Berhalter’s inability to make a moderately sensible second half adjustment). We have friends from all over the country flying in to watch games and eat Thanksgiving leftovers with us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. It's fascinating to me to read about people's differing opinions about sports. I love soccer--there's 45+ straight minutes of action before a break, and then another 45+. It has completely ruined me for American football, where play stops seemingly every few seconds, and there are so many ads that sometimes I wonder if I am watching an ad reel, with a few moments of football sprinkled in.

But there’s a difference in the action that’s taking place during play. Soccer moves more slowly than football overall. Each play in football lasts like 1 minute and there’s a lot happening during the play.

And anyway, there’s plenty of stopping during soccer for all of the flopping and dramatic overreactions to “fouls.”

Each play in football doesn’t last one minute. More like about 6 or 7 seconds from snap to tackle.

You forget the dancing and chest bumps. You know . . . What real men do!

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Unless you are a 7 year old girl soccer is not a sport

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Ugh. I had a call that started at 4 today. We were in the 8th minute of the 9 minutes of extra time. No one on the call had a clue the game was on.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. I had a call that started at 4 today. We were in the 8th minute of the 9 minutes of extra time. No one on the call had a clue the game was on.

I also sat the whole day on my couch and worked in front of the tv, which I will continue to do for the next few weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Then why do I see so many yellow or blank bubbles on Teams right now?

I literally had to text two colleagues to flag time sensitive items because I know they are watching soccer all day.

Because it's Thanksgiving week?

Sigh

These people didn’t take leave. They are allegedly working.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless you are a 7 year old girl soccer is not a sport

I know. Real sports are those where incredibly obese men dress up in tights and smash into one another, stop every 30 seconds to reset (because they cannot play a solid, continuous game), run 100+ commercials per game, and half the team cannot run 50 yards without passing out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s their loss, OP. We are massive fans and know a player on the team from our hometown. We are taking off work the whole week and watching as many games as we can (and lamenting Berhalter’s inability to make a moderately sensible second half adjustment). We have friends from all over the country flying in to watch games and eat Thanksgiving leftovers with us.

That's very exciting! We're taking the next 2 weeks off to watch group stage. Super excited, though we are a family that pays subscription to watch EPL all games every weekend. And Berhalter has to go. Just awful. But hopefully team can adjust before Fri.