Big Gay Soccer Thread

gftChris

@the-gipper said:
Yes, I was just goofing on soccer with this thread.......Bravo to the soccer fa(n)s on here for not taking the bait.

*bows*

I know how you feel about the sport. Not sure why you feel the need to keep trolling, hoping to get a rise out of people though?

The Gipper

@gftchris said:

*bows*

I know how you feel about the sport. Not sure why you feel the need to keep trolling, hoping to get a rise out of people though?

Because it is fun and funny?

gftChris

@the-gipper said:
Because it is fun and funny?

Whatever floats your boat buddy.

The Gipper

@gftchris said:
Whatever floats your boat buddy.

Bouyancy and displacement float my boat....or should I say, floats boats. I don't own a boat.

DeputyDawg

West Ham Utd. COYI! Let's not mention the spuds game..

The Gipper

@deputydawg said:
West Ham Utd. COYI! Let's not mention the spuds game..

Translate COYI.

gftChris

@the-gipper said:
Translate COYI.

Come on you iron - West Ham United (DD's team) were originally a team of ironworkers from a factory. Their nickname is 'The Hammers'

DeputyDawg

Yep, Come On You Irons! For my sins I'm a season ticket holder at West Ham and have been for many years. It's an East London/Essex team with good support in Kent too. Also the subject of a number of hooligan films.

The Gipper

@deputydawg said:
Yep, Come On You Irons! For my sins I'm a season ticket holder at West Ham and have been for many years. It's an East London/Essex team with good support in Kent too. Also the subject of a number of hooligan films.

Doesn't Kent have its own team?

DeputyDawg

Gillingham? Small fry mate and with a new train link from Stratford to Kent coming up expect a lot more Hammers fans in Kent very shortly.

The Gipper

@deputydawg said:
Gillingham? Small fry mate and with a new train link from Stratford to Kent coming up expect a lot more Hammers fans in Kent very shortly.

Two very important people in history came from Gillingham: My mother and the real life person that became an English Samurai that Shogun was based on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(sailor)

DeputyDawg

I raise the glass of Laphroaig I'm drinking right now to them. Cheers!

The Gipper

@deputydawg said:
I raise the glass of Laphroaig I'm drinking right now to them. Cheers!

Where's mine?

DeputyDawg

I have loads of whisky/ey. You're ever in Billericay you're invited to partake mate! I'm currently drinking a Scotch Malt Whisky Society Ardmore. Had a glass of quality bourbon before that.

The Gipper

@deputydawg said:
I have loads of whisky/ey. You're ever in Billericay you're invited to partake mate! I'm currently drinking a Scotch Malt Whisky Society Ardmore. Had a glass of quality bourbon before that.

Not sure just where that is. Is that East Anglia?

DeputyDawg

It's in Essex mate, 35 minutes from Liverpool Street station, not far off the A12 by car.

The Gipper

OK, a few of things about the MLS Championship game that happened yesterday:

A. Notice that this is the first time anywhere that anyone here has mentioned it. Columbus played Portland. Portland won. Should we here in Northeast Ohio....Browns fans, have been behind an MLS team from Columbus?

B. The NBC guys stated: "This is Portland's first Championship in a major sport since the Trailblazers won the 1977 NBA title:

SHUT THE FUCK UP, assholes. Soccer is NOT a major sport yet. NBC just wanted to claim it is because they showed the broadcast.

(on that note....should we here in NEOhio be behind a real major league team: the hockey team from Columbus)

C. That said, the Portland team was coached by Caleb Porter. He is the former HC...manager...wtfever they call them.....that coached the Akron U Soccer team to a National championship a few years back. His wife and mine used to work together.

D. Also....Akron U is back in the National Championship race. They are now in the Soccer Final Four. Friday they will play Stanford for the right to play the Syracuse/Clemson winner.

(Interesting...Clemson is in the Final Four in Football and in Futbol.)

Browns149

Having been a fan of the English Premier League (Liverpool) for many years, the MLS is like watching AA baseball compared to MLB.

It is the same game but nowhere near the talent level.

I also don't root for the Blue Jackets as I am a New York Rangers fan.

gftChris

Lol, MLS.

The Gipper

@gftchris said:
Lol, MLS.

So, WTF is up with that?

Most reasoning for not recognizing the MLS as a "major league" is that it is:

A. the sport itself is still not taken as seriously here as the other sports...

B. Tradition.....the MLS still doesn't have it much.

C. Size. Until it reaches the kinds of numbers of teams approaching the other major leagues....and is located in most of the major markets, it won't get major league status.

D. Age. The league is just too young as yet. It has only been a league since 1996.

E. Continuity. Other than mergers of other leagues that have occurred (e.g. the ABA and the WHL) no team in the other 4 major sports have gone defunct outright since the 1950s. Having that continuity and stability is a Hallmark of a major league sport. The MLS has a team go belly up just last year: Chivas FC. In this regard, perhaps this could have been overlooked had the NASL formed in the 60s still been operating....the league of the NY Cosmos and Pele.

But, even though it is not a major league sport here yet......it is still THE top league in America......and that means something. And what it means is that it is not something to laugh at. No, I am not a soccer defender......but this MLS, as I said, is a very young league....only 20 years. Compare its progress to the English football leagues. Most of those teams have been around since the 1800s, fair to say? Though the league has gone through permutations, the teams have all been around in one form or another for 100+ years. All MLS teams only around since 1996.

So...I wouldn't be laughing too hard......for before you know it, the MLS may in fact be THE premier league....if not the Premier League of that sport.