A pet curiosity of mine
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Never having had an opportunity to ask the question with any credibility, the USA victory today makes it at least relevant, so I will give it a go. Has the fact that the US is traditionally a horrid football country contributed to its huge international popularity? Democracy in sport is generally a great thing from my perspective, but suppose for a minute that the US can manage to not embarrass themselves in this World Cup. Suppose that some of our young athletes outside of those that may previously have gone into 'soccer' due only to the fact that they lacked the physical attributes to hang with our physical glamor sports, are inspired by a great game they never had paid much attention to. Suppose the US makes a power of themselves... Would that affect the health of the game? Soccer here gets less coverage here than Hockey, which itself can be out viewed by an infomercial, so who knows what this World Cup will bring. One can only hope.
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Never having had an opportunity to ask the question with any credibility, the USA victory today makes it at least relevant, so I will give it a go. Has the fact that the US is traditionally a horrid football country contributed to its huge international popularity? Democracy in sport is generally a great thing from my perspective, but suppose for a minute that the US can manage to not embarrass themselves in this World Cup. Suppose that some of our young athletes outside of those that may previously have gone into 'soccer' due only to the fact that they lacked the physical attributes to hang with our physical glamor sports, are inspired by a great game they never had paid much attention to. Suppose the US makes a power of themselves... Would that affect the health of the game? Soccer here gets less coverage here than Hockey, which itself can be out viewed by an infomercial, so who knows what this World Cup will bring. One can only hope.
I can remember when USA hosted the world cup, that Americans were being interviewed on the streets, and a good chunk of people didn't have a clue what the World Cup was, and were even less clued up that they were hosting it. -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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I can remember when USA hosted the world cup, that Americans were being interviewed on the streets, and a good chunk of people didn't have a clue what the World Cup was, and were even less clued up that they were hosting it. -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
World Cup? Is that like a communist community codpiece? Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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I can remember when USA hosted the world cup, that Americans were being interviewed on the streets, and a good chunk of people didn't have a clue what the World Cup was, and were even less clued up that they were hosting it. -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
Yeah, it's kinda sad isn't it. Here in the US quidditch gets more press coverage than soccer. ;P Mike Mullikin "Thank you America, every night I see increasingly stupid things happening here in Australia. Then you come along and top it." - Michael Martin - The Lounge :bob:
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World Cup? Is that like a communist community codpiece? Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
Tim Smith wrote: World Cup? Is that like a communist community codpiece? Almost, but with ketchup and capitalist community beef jerky (I never understood why the beef had to be jerky. I'd be rather scared of beef starting to jerk around my plate). But I'm rather ignorant of what USian sports are played too. I know there's something in the USA called football that most of the time involves holding the "ball" (though I fail to see how anyone could seriously call that strangely formed object a ball) with your hands. I also think USA has some large bowl (mega bowl, hyper bowl, super bowl, whatever), but I never understood how bowling could reach such heights. :-)
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Yeah, it's kinda sad isn't it. Here in the US quidditch gets more press coverage than soccer. ;P Mike Mullikin "Thank you America, every night I see increasingly stupid things happening here in Australia. Then you come along and top it." - Michael Martin - The Lounge :bob:
As it should, as it should.
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Never having had an opportunity to ask the question with any credibility, the USA victory today makes it at least relevant, so I will give it a go. Has the fact that the US is traditionally a horrid football country contributed to its huge international popularity? Democracy in sport is generally a great thing from my perspective, but suppose for a minute that the US can manage to not embarrass themselves in this World Cup. Suppose that some of our young athletes outside of those that may previously have gone into 'soccer' due only to the fact that they lacked the physical attributes to hang with our physical glamor sports, are inspired by a great game they never had paid much attention to. Suppose the US makes a power of themselves... Would that affect the health of the game? Soccer here gets less coverage here than Hockey, which itself can be out viewed by an infomercial, so who knows what this World Cup will bring. One can only hope.
I disagree. I don't think the US's lack of development of the game of football has any bearing whatsoever in the fact that other countries prefer it. If the US becomes stronger, they'll just be another contender out of many, but I certainly don't think it's going to change the view's of countries for which football has been their main sport for generations. Cheers, Tom Archer Author - Inside C#, Visual C++.NET Bible Please remember to keep this for tax purposes.
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Never having had an opportunity to ask the question with any credibility, the USA victory today makes it at least relevant, so I will give it a go. Has the fact that the US is traditionally a horrid football country contributed to its huge international popularity? Democracy in sport is generally a great thing from my perspective, but suppose for a minute that the US can manage to not embarrass themselves in this World Cup. Suppose that some of our young athletes outside of those that may previously have gone into 'soccer' due only to the fact that they lacked the physical attributes to hang with our physical glamor sports, are inspired by a great game they never had paid much attention to. Suppose the US makes a power of themselves... Would that affect the health of the game? Soccer here gets less coverage here than Hockey, which itself can be out viewed by an infomercial, so who knows what this World Cup will bring. One can only hope.
This is something I always have mixed feelings about. I actually like Soccer more than American football, Basketball or baseball, both to watch and to play. You don't have to be 300 pounds or 7 foot tall or have some other kind of rare genetic mutation to be good at it. It is a game of endurance, agililty and heart. On the other hand, I think it is cool that we American's snub our noses at the world and continue to enjoy our own sports. Honestly, I did not even know the world cup was in progress. In fact, I don't know of anyone who does. It is a complete non-issue. "There's a slew of slip 'twixt cup and lip"
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Never having had an opportunity to ask the question with any credibility, the USA victory today makes it at least relevant, so I will give it a go. Has the fact that the US is traditionally a horrid football country contributed to its huge international popularity? Democracy in sport is generally a great thing from my perspective, but suppose for a minute that the US can manage to not embarrass themselves in this World Cup. Suppose that some of our young athletes outside of those that may previously have gone into 'soccer' due only to the fact that they lacked the physical attributes to hang with our physical glamor sports, are inspired by a great game they never had paid much attention to. Suppose the US makes a power of themselves... Would that affect the health of the game? Soccer here gets less coverage here than Hockey, which itself can be out viewed by an infomercial, so who knows what this World Cup will bring. One can only hope.
Alex Stoddard wrote: Soccer here gets less coverage here than Hockey, which itself can be out viewed by an infomercial If you don't have a local hockey team then it wouldn't be watched very much; but every TV I saw last Friday was tuned to game 7 of the Wings vs Avalanche series. I was watching it at a casino too :) James
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Never having had an opportunity to ask the question with any credibility, the USA victory today makes it at least relevant, so I will give it a go. Has the fact that the US is traditionally a horrid football country contributed to its huge international popularity? Democracy in sport is generally a great thing from my perspective, but suppose for a minute that the US can manage to not embarrass themselves in this World Cup. Suppose that some of our young athletes outside of those that may previously have gone into 'soccer' due only to the fact that they lacked the physical attributes to hang with our physical glamor sports, are inspired by a great game they never had paid much attention to. Suppose the US makes a power of themselves... Would that affect the health of the game? Soccer here gets less coverage here than Hockey, which itself can be out viewed by an infomercial, so who knows what this World Cup will bring. One can only hope.
From what I have read Soccer is growing in the US, but note espescially with girls. If the US became a dominant force in soccer they could really change the game especially with the money involved. I think some big changes in the rules would be forced on the game as well. Regardz Colin J Davies
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