Ok,
Drudge listed a story today about how only 6% of American's were watching the World Cup. However, I think the poll is tainted by the fact that they don't show the Cup on American TV. No one can follow it. Now I know that I'm something of antiquity, but I don't have cable TV. Actually I chose not to afford it, but...
ABC is showing only a few games as they come on on Saturday's . Come on, in the midst of the horrible summer line-up for TV shows, I think that ABC could do better to show re-runs of the World Cup games. I'd watch.
I'm not a huge soccer fan. I wouldn't watch it as a regular season like Football or Baseball, but this is like the Olympics of Soccer. Give it air time. Let me air my opinion.
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I love world cup soccer. I've watched several of the matches this year and will definitely be watching more. I wholeheartedly agree that if it was being shown on network tv, it would be getting better ratings.
However, the one thing I hate about soccer is this... the players that whine and cry and writhe on the ground to get a call and then get back up, act like they are running it off and get back in the game. I think this is why soccer players have such a rep for being pansies.
I mean... I know that they definitely aren't pansies. They are incredible athletes. I just wish they would act like incredible athletes and not like the whiney kid at recess that always left the game crying only to be fine the next day.
The first goal scored against the US in their game against Ghana came because the player from USA got the ball stolen from him and instead of hustling back to get the ball, he was laying on the pitch trying to draw a call. It was pathetic.
Be tough. Suck it up. Play the game. Maybe that's how the USA can up their game. Become the first team of tough guys to compete in the world cup.
Are you with me on this?
That's what should be meant by "American Football".
Face it; the only matter of lasting importance about the World Cup is that the Three Tenors usually get together and make beautiful music.
When we were on vacation, for 2 days the only tv channel we got was ABC. So we had the world cup. We decided to not watch tv.
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