As I was browsing around for articles on tonights Bengals/Ravens game I ran across this article and this quote.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../
"I mean, this isn't a soft sport. We don't play chess. This isn't swimming. This isn't one of those kind of sports. It's football. It takes a man to play this game, and to play this game you have to have passion.''
I had to laugh.
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Most people will generally respect an athete, regardless of sport, except soccer of course.
Is this because of a lack of ability in using a ball without involving your hands that prevails in US sports? That blatant flame (the "of course" part) is ludicrous IMO, and an insult to your very accomplished "womens" national team.
Give me any WR/RB/DB, Hockey player, or basketball player. I'd lay odds on them gasping at high-level soccer fitness--training for 90 minutes of virtually non-stop moving. I'm talking FIFA rules not rolling substitutions.
However, I would also take any basektball, hockey, or DB and field them (in relatively short time) as a defender in a game and know they would cope; because the games are not that different at the individual level.
Now if you want to mock pro-soccer "divers" and primadonnas...fair enough but that goes all around.
Most people will generally respect an athete, regardless of sport, except soccer of course.
Is this because of a lack of ability in using a ball without involving your hands that prevails in US sports? That blatant flame (the "of course" part) is ludicrous IMO, and an insult to your very accomplished "womens" national team.
Give me any WR/RB/DB, Hockey player, or basketball player. I'd lay odds on them gasping at high-level soccer fitness--training for 90 minutes of virtually non-stop moving. I'm talking FIFA rules not rolling substitutions.
However, I would also take any basektball, hockey, or DB and field them (in relatively short time) as a defender in a game and know they would cope; because the games are not that different at the individual level.
Now if you want to mock pro-soccer "divers" and primadonnas...fair enough but that goes all around.
