@gftchris said:

Um, the tactics in hockey are extremely similar to those in soccer, they just happen a lot faster- offsides, etc. Scoring is about as difficult. And trust me a hockey puck moves way faster than any human being can kick a soccer ball.

Zombo said:

Homos that want to continue talking about soccer go here: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11409

Possible topics include:

Why soccer should just be a sport for girls in this day of age.

Why soccer players look so stupid when they flop all the time.

Why soccer is so flipping boring.

Why everyone who follows the link is attracted to other men.

Zombo

Hey, humbug- just because you hate the worlds most popular sport doesn't mean the rest of the world is wrong for loving it. I get the last word in. My pro Sports hierarchy

1) NFL football

2) NBA Basketball

3) Tennis

4) NHL Hockey

5) Soccer

6) MLB You want to take a nap? Just tune in.

7) Skiing

Summer Olympics

BTW, despite it's TV rankings, golf isn't a freaking sport, it's a skill, (one look at John Daly- now there's a damn athlete for ya) like bowling.

Possible topics include:

Why soccer should just be a sport for girls in this day of age.

Why soccer players look so stupid when they flop all the time.

Why soccer is so flipping boring.

Why everyone who follows the link is attracted to other men.

Zombo

@londonbrown said:

Really?

I don't think we can say that American spectator sports can be classified that way. Football, baseball, basketball each have their appeal to both upper, middle, and lower classes.

Some sports have regional attraction. NASCAR in the south, hockey in the north, lacrosse in the east.

@gftchris said:

... wait, is Onyewu on the roster?

@londonbrown said:

Yeah, when he decides to let Gareth Bale do his dirty work.

@mld-woody said:

Altidore is just terrible. 1 goal in 18 games for Sunderland just isn't good enough. Plus you'll be up against a team in Portugal (Germany are through) who is basically man for man a better team. You'll have to play extremely well to beat them, and hope Ronaldo is having an off day.

Of course the game in Cleveland I went to happened right before this streak, and we lost 2-4 to Belgium...

@roycerolls said:

Indeed, if everyone had the same opinions on everything, then life would be a lot less interesting! This board wouldn't exist, the draft would be a foregone conclusion, politics wouldn't be a big thing and all the rest.

@gftchris said:

the subjectivity of life is a beautiful thing

@roycerolls said:

I agree about the comparison, but am probably on the other end of it! But I admire your passion for the sport. The nearest I've got to playing is various forms of floor hockey, which are fun, but nowhere near as fun as soccer. And in fairness, I did say I disagreed with the comparison

@gftchris said:

LAUGHABLE! Hockey, my friend, is a sport you need to get into. Soccer is ok and all, but Hockey is sheer poetry wrought with gut-busting tension and the speed, my god the speed! Comparing Hockey to Soccer is like comparing filet mignon to a cold dog turd on a paper plate.

@the-gipper said:

Just give it up Gip, it's not clever, nobody's laughing. How many gridiron football fans do you suppose there are in the world? I mean, all of America and Canada, right? Plus maybe a couple of million outside of there? Except it won't be all of north america. Apparently, viewing figures for the superbowl 2012 - highest on record - were around 170 million. How many do you suppose play/watch association football? Well, the last world cup final attracted 3.2 billion people.

So please, stop trying to belittle a sport that is the most popular in the world, and getting on for 20 times more popular that NFL.

@hoorta said:

IMO the guys dissing soccer should get with the program. NFL football pales in comparison to the worldwide popularity of soccer. Just think of it as slow motion hockey guys.

Not sure about slow motion hockey, but if it works for you Football/Soccer is a lot more tactical than hockey, which seems to basically consist of everybody trying to slam the puck towards the goal as hard and as often as possible but to be fair I haven't watched much, outside of the odd winter olympics final or stanley cup highlights, so I could be misguided on that.

@the-gipper said:

IMO the guys dissing soccer should get with the program. NFL football pales in comparison to the worldwide popularity of soccer. Just think of it as slow motion hockey guys.

@tour2ma said:

My feelings exactly.

@kennel-club said:

Too many fans throwing too many rocks?

@andruw-u said:

Thanks for joining Aston Villa guy. Certainly not a bandwagon fan. Perhaps you could point our "leadership" in the direction of a head coach/technical director? We're losing out on guys who'd rather stay assistant coaches or coach a college team which is on double, top-secret probation for the next decade than be the Cleveland head coach.

The Browns have a tradition-rich history and the most loyal (abused) fans, but the current Browns would've been relegated down to about the seventh division through the last 25 years if the NFL was European.

My dad was 13 at the time of the Browns' last NFL Championship, before there was such a thing as a Super Bowl. He never gave me a choice in the matter. I can barely go back to such disasters as "The Drive" (playoffs 1987) and "The Fumble" (playoffs 1988), which would be brilliant accomplishments and honest reasons to "wait 'til next year" compared to anything the Browns have done since returning in 1999. Now the Browns find drink-inducing ways to fuck up, not fourth quarters which could've taken them to the Super Bowl, but regular season games against joke franchises like Jacksonville.

Welcome!

Abused, the definition of A Cleveland Browns Fan lmao!¡!......... but really, WTF just happened here??

I feel like I'm in a episode of The Twilight Zone!

@londonbrown said:

Well then our new fans will feel right at home- the Browns have suffered from terrible mismanagement since 1999, and even longer if you want to count in the last Modell years of ownership.