What is the future of football?

[mjp28]

From The Worst Things in Sports thread......

Just screen shot this, how does anyone watch this stuff? In this segment 6 games, 5 teams didn't even score, 3 ties? ZZZZzzzzzooooool.

[Tour2ma]

@mjp28 said:

But how are they going to huddle up, did anybody else think about that, eh? 

lmao...

[DieHardBrownsFan]

@lionofbuddha said:

Yeah, that’s probably why it’s the most popular sport in the world 

Pussified world.

[LionOfBuddha]

@mjp28 said:

No its probably because it originated in and is largely  played in dirt poor countries all over the world. No uniforms or equipment necessary not even shoes just a ball. 

And yes it's boring, unless you actually like 0-0, 1-0 games. "Recess for big kids", 

Dude, it’s is the most popular sport in every first world nation in europe. It’s not a poor man’s sport. Yes, it’s easy for poor kids to play, but people from all social backgrounds play it and love it. It’s going to be the biggest sport here too, eventually

[mjp28]

Dude, it always has been a poor man's sport.

The History Of Soccer

More than 240 million people around the world play soccer regularly according to the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The game has evolved from the sport of kicking a rudimentary animal-hide ball around into the World Cup sport it is today.

Records trace the history of soccer back more than 2,000 years ago to ancient China. Greece, Rome, and parts of Central America also claim to have started the sport; but it was England that transitioned soccer, or what the British and many other people around the world call “football,” into the game we know today. The English are credited with recording the first uniform rules for the sport, including forbidding tripping opponents and touching the ball with hands.

As the sport developed, more rules were implemented and more historical landmarks were set. For example, the penalty kick was introduced in 1891. FIFA became a member of the International Football Association Board of Great Britain in 1913. Red and yellow cards were introduced during the 1970 World Cup finals. More recent major changes include goalkeepers being banned from handling deliberate back passes in 1992 and tackles from behind becoming red-card penalties in 1998.

Some of the top players throughout history include Pele (Edson Arantes Do Nascimento) from Brazil, who scored six goals in the 1958 World Cup and helped Brazil claim its first title; Lev Yashin from Russia, who claimed to have saved more than 150 penalty shots during his outstanding goal-tending career; and Marco Van Basten from Holland, who won several very prestigious soccer awards during one year alone. There are many debates over who the greatest soccer players are of all time; but players like Zinedine Zidane, Diego Maradona, Michel Platini, Lionel Messi, and Roberto Baggio make almost every list.

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And it's still boring and yes it will last because other countries will not adopt AMERICAN football, basketball, baseball or hockey as their national sport. Cheap, boring soccer is here to stay. 

[jcam222]

@lionofbuddha said:

Dude, it’s is the most popular sport in every first world nation in europe. It’s not a poor man’s sport. Yes, it’s easy for poor kids to play, but people from all social backgrounds play it and love it. It’s going to be the biggest sport here too, eventually

Soccer will never be in the US what it is elsewhere without dramatic changes to increase offense by about 10 fold at the least. We are way to microwave and like high paced scoring sports. 

[Orion]

Soccer is just plain boring.  So boring you think your teeth are gonna fall out.....and then they go to EXTRA time.  It's like a penance. 

I DID hear a funny line while watching a game, the announcer was talking about one of the teams being so bad that, they were lucky to have nil. 

[hoorta]

@mjp28 said:

No its probably because it originated in and is largely  played in dirt poor countries all over the world. No uniforms or equipment necessary not even shoes just a ball. 

And yes it's boring, unless you actually like 0-0, 1-0 games. "Recess for big kids", 

Hockey isn't exactly a high scoring sport either. Soccer is essentially hockey played on a grass football field. Slow motion hockey if you like. 

Nah- U.S. sport fans are just going to have to get used to the idea what we consider exciting isn't necessarily what the rest of the world does. False superiority complex. Put the shoe on the other foot and I'm sure a lot of the European nations wonder why America hasn't gotten on the soccer bandwagon yet. And you want to talk about crazy fans? Our diehard football fans are minor league compared to the riots they've had many times in soccer stands, with people getting killed.  World's most popular sport? Your numbers prove it. 240 million? That's about 70% of the entire population of the United States. 

& FWIW, I played competitive tennis for years, and I can hardly stand watching it on the tube.  If soccer bores you - I get that. And if you don't think it takes skill- Chris Collisnworth told a story way back. Him and the Bengals were having a brew or three in a Cinci bar after a game- and a club soccer team was there doing the same. Bengals guys started ragging on the puss nature of the soccer guys. Oh yeah? You're on. Can't remember what the bet was for, but the Bengals guys quit when they were down 10-0.   

[LondonBrown]

@orion said:

I'm pretty sure that whacking a fast moving soccer ball with your head is NOT gonna be good for your brain.  The elimination of the header is in soccer's future.

Certainly an issue for the old timers but the balls are incredibly light now, which is evident in how it moves after the likes of Ronaldo strikes a dead ball.

[LondonBrown]

@orion said:

Soccer is just plain boring.  So boring you think your teeth are gonna fall out.....and then they go to EXTRA time.  It's like a penance. 

I DID hear a funny line while watching a game, the announcer was talking about one of the teams being so bad that, they were lucky to have nil. 

If you guys think Soccer is boring (when a NFL game, which I love, takes four hours) I dread the day you discover Cricket. . . 

[TexasAg1969]

@londonbrown said:

If you guys think Soccer is boring (when a NFL game, which I love, takes four hours) I dread the day you discover Cricket. . . 

Sometimes on a late summer night I have a beer outside and listen to their mating calls. I'm sure some of 'em score.

[The Gipper]

@texasag1969 said:

Sometimes on a late summer night I have a beer outside and listen to their mating calls. I'm sure some of 'em score.

I prefer to watch fireflies....or lightning bugs....whichever you prefer

[The Gipper]

The answer is oh so simple:    Bubble wrap

[mjp28]

What is the future of (AMERICAN) football?

Well as long as there is money on the table it essentially stays as is for the near future, if/when viewership and attendance continue to drop (yes even in Super Bowls, 3 straight down years),   the sponsors start backing away, moms continue to refuse to let their little boys play tackle football and the younger generations keep staying away from the sport in increasing numbers changes will happen.

So let's look at the mjp list of exciting world and AMERICAN sports......unofficial of course:

1. NCAA FOOTBALL 

2. NFL FOOTBALL 

3. MLB 

4. NHL

5. NCAA BASKETBALL 

6. NBA, except if the Cavaliers are in it

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98. CRICKET (new)

99. SOCCER

100. anything else left

So there you go........

[The Gipper]

@mjp28 said:

What is the future of (AMERICAN) football?

Well as long as there is money on the table it essentially stays as is for the near future, if/when viewership and attendance continue to drop (yes even in Super Bowls, 3 straight down years),   the sponsors start backing away, moms continue to refuse to let their little boys play tackle football and the younger generations keep staying away from the sport in increasing numbers changes will happen.

So let's look at the mjp list of exciting world and AMERICAN sports......unofficial of course:

1. NCAA FOOTBALL 

2. NFL FOOTBALL 

3. MLB 

4. NHL

5. NCAA BASKETBALL 

6. NBA, except if the Cavaliers are in it

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98. CRICKET (new)

99. SOCCER

100. anything else left

So there you go........

I often get excited watching a good golf match. My wife even more so....and she hates just about all the other sports, except baseball.

[TexasAg1969]

@the-gipper said:

I often get excited watching a good golf match. My wife even more so....and she hates just about all the other sports, except baseball.

Now golf is a real pussified game. The object is to put it in the hole with a long stick right?

And they set up all kinds of barriers to keep you from doing that. Yep that there is some game!

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Remember Jarts?  They looked like large darts that you threw at a circle in the lawn?  I wonder how many kids got impaled before the banned them?  Used to have a set in my parents yard.

[The Gipper]

@texasag1969 said:

Now golf is a real pussified game. The object is to put it in the hole with a long stick right?

And they set up all kinds of barriers to keep you from doing that. Yep that there is some game!

It is not a physical/contact/collision sport....but I don't know about pussified.   It takes tremendous skill.

[The Gipper]

[The Gipper]