soccer or basketball

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Lord Pendragon:
I wasn't talking about your post in specific.
I think there seems to be a trend with comments about America from people who don't live here, and I don't think I'm the only one who has noticed it.


Here in the United States, professional basketball is more popular than soccer by a very large degree.Basketball was invented in the USA, so it makes sense. With that said, more kids here play soccer than basketball.

Why don't people here get into pro soccer much? We follow baseball. It's the great American pastime. I always wonder why people wonder at Americans not caring much about soccer. While all the time, we never think,why don't those Europeans like baseball, it must be because they only like things they beat everybody else in.

Another reason is because the United States has it's own football, totally different from English football, more like rugby. Of course football is very popular here. Football, the American kind, is popular in Canada too, where soccer isn't much more popular than it is here. Things are just done differently here.

So why is our football (and so many other things here) different? The United States formed from the very first colonies to gain independence from a major European power. This was long before the of rise of soccer an other leasure time persuits, which occured when most other countries in the world were European colonies, and the United States were already expanding and making their mark on the world. Does that make any sense to you?
 

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you can't grow up in north carolina without loving basketball! and if you didn't play basketball, you were a total wuss.

I always had problems getting my cock secure playing sports. i hated jocks, but now use boxer briefs.
 

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The Brits are very self-critical and self-deprecating. So it's not snootyness if we are the same to other people - it's just the way we are and others are not. We notice it.

I don't know why the Europeans don't go for team sports that involve hitting a ball - apart from the English and cricket - interesting.
 

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Inter Ested said:
i live in germany and so its soccer of course. the mexican national team lives in my town now and there is fiesta from dusk till dawn every day. the whole country is partying till 9/07. lots of fun, though the german nationalists are making me sick.

soccer, not basketball...:rolleyes:

:kiss:

Thank U Germans for your hospitality!!! Beautiful country!!

I wish i was there too...watching the games, drinking giant beer and eating the great variety of sausages u have!
 

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Soccer!!! I played throughout high school and college. I still play today in an adult league. I can't get enough of the sport.

Truth be known--I really suck at basketball. Can't shoot a basket for the life of me. I always dreaded the "basketball" portion of gym class. It brings up bad memories--can't talk about it (hah, just kidding, but I really do stink at basketball).
 

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Thanks for the reply Lord Pendragon
That's a very interesting observation

In unrelated news, I just checked out your profile
Wow, do you have a big penis. Now I understand your motto
I think you must be like the biggest guy on here
 

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Soccer is more popular in most european countries (maybe not in the east).

As an Italian i should be fond of soccer, but i basically hate it: overpaid as****es. Here soccer in inside a judicial storm, bribes, corruption, intimidation on refrees and so on.

This shouldn't be called sport.
 

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Proudly_Italian said:
As an Italian i should be fond of soccer, but i basically hate it: overpaid as****es. Here soccer in inside a judicial storm, bribes, corruption, intimidation on refrees and so on.

Juventus problem is an example for all the football world, but it's not the only one.

Futbol is most popular sport in the world, is one of the things that the US culture cannot break in another places.
 

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Sorry soccer fans, but ...

I love basketball.

More than anything else in the whole, wide world.
 

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well soccer is more popular world wide but basketball is more popular in the US and i think its the msot played sport in america think abotu it every1 plays basketball