Just so you know the reason that we all do the “American’s don’t care about soccer schtick” Is because we’ve been doing since about 1950 and you guys never noticed. You call it soccer as opposed to football. (FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association) What you call football involves holding a ball with your hands. And most importantly if you truly completely 100% care about football you wouldn’t have put an Irish bar in this strip as you’d be aware that Ireland were knocked out in qualification by the French due to a hand ball by Thierry Henry. Also you’ll be hard pressed to find any football fans outside of the states who doesn’t watch the Premier League and The Champions League
Eddie, friend, dial it back.The cartoon’s about the joy of the watching the game, especially w/ devotees from around the world. Yes, we know that most of the world calls it football, but people can still be cool with it. And you don’t have to go all in to enjoy something; there are no December WAC basketball pools at the office but come March Madness everyone cares. Same with the Olympics. So head to an Irish bar and enjoy the matches. There’s only a few left.
Of course America doesn’t care about soccer. Let’s look at the facts:
Football: There’s a snap, there’s a down, there’s a commercial. Snap, down, commercial. Snap, down, commercial.
Baseball: Batter is up, Batter gets a base hit or is out. There’s a commercial. Batter up, batter hits/outs, commercial. Batter up, batter hit/out, commercial.
Soccer: Play goes on and on until the rare event someone scores. Where do we put all the commercials?
You can still go to an Irish pub and root for Anybody But England!
But, yes, the Sports Talk guys are clueless about anything outside the triple of baseball/football/basketball. It took Lance Armstrong winning the Tour to get them to even notice that there WAS a Tour de France!
I worked at newspapers for about 10 frustrating years. I noticed that the Sports guys ignored the non-ball sports. When Olympic qualifying for windsurfing was held at Our Fair City, the sports desk ignored it because “that’s not a sport.” They buried coverage of a local 5K run that had 5,000 people in favor of covering an exhibition baseball game that had about 300 people in the stands. Why? One reason might be the sports guys themselves — they were overwhelmingly big fat guys who got their sports with a remote from in front of a TV.
I spent a big chunk of Friday afternoon in front of Cardullo’s in Harvard Square watching Uruguay beat Ghana with about 100 strangers. I’m not sure that whole “Americans don’t care about soccer” thing is still applicable.
Just so you know the reason that we all do the “American’s don’t care about soccer schtick” Is because we’ve been doing since about 1950 and you guys never noticed. You call it soccer as opposed to football. (FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association) What you call football involves holding a ball with your hands. And most importantly if you truly completely 100% care about football you wouldn’t have put an Irish bar in this strip as you’d be aware that Ireland were knocked out in qualification by the French due to a hand ball by Thierry Henry. Also you’ll be hard pressed to find any football fans outside of the states who doesn’t watch the Premier League and The Champions League
7am??? So you missed all of the 4:30am games??? How could you?
Eddie, friend, dial it back.The cartoon’s about the joy of the watching the game, especially w/ devotees from around the world. Yes, we know that most of the world calls it football, but people can still be cool with it. And you don’t have to go all in to enjoy something; there are no December WAC basketball pools at the office but come March Madness everyone cares. Same with the Olympics. So head to an Irish bar and enjoy the matches. There’s only a few left.
Of course America doesn’t care about soccer. Let’s look at the facts:
Football: There’s a snap, there’s a down, there’s a commercial. Snap, down, commercial. Snap, down, commercial.
Baseball: Batter is up, Batter gets a base hit or is out. There’s a commercial. Batter up, batter hits/outs, commercial. Batter up, batter hit/out, commercial.
Soccer: Play goes on and on until the rare event someone scores. Where do we put all the commercials?
Hey i’m an american who hates all sports!
THE IRISH AREN’T IN THE WORLD CUP?!!
Oh well–I guess I’ll have to root for the Salvadoran team.
Oh, where would we be if it weren’t for snarky, think-they-know-it-all commentary on the web?
You can still go to an Irish pub and root for Anybody But England!
But, yes, the Sports Talk guys are clueless about anything outside the triple of baseball/football/basketball. It took Lance Armstrong winning the Tour to get them to even notice that there WAS a Tour de France!
I worked at newspapers for about 10 frustrating years. I noticed that the Sports guys ignored the non-ball sports. When Olympic qualifying for windsurfing was held at Our Fair City, the sports desk ignored it because “that’s not a sport.” They buried coverage of a local 5K run that had 5,000 people in favor of covering an exhibition baseball game that had about 300 people in the stands. Why? One reason might be the sports guys themselves — they were overwhelmingly big fat guys who got their sports with a remote from in front of a TV.
I spent a big chunk of Friday afternoon in front of Cardullo’s in Harvard Square watching Uruguay beat Ghana with about 100 strangers. I’m not sure that whole “Americans don’t care about soccer” thing is still applicable.