I Can’t Get Into Soccer (Football)
By Daniel Miessler on July 27th, 2006: Tagged as Games | Rants | Soccer | Sport
I can’t get into soccer. To me, they mostly take turns losing the ball, and seem to take shots on goal very infrequently. This, of course, leads to very low scoring games. Great, 0-1 with 5 shots taken in an hour and a half.
Don’t get me wrong, when there’s a brilliant drive that comes screaming down the field, and it culminates with a powerful strike on goal (even if it misses or is blocked) — that’s exciting. My problem is that this constitutes like .07% of games I watch. I watched like 10 games during the World Cup and it was mostly an exercise in frustration.
Of course, I am into MMA, so maybe my standard for action is a bit too high.
--
Seems the solution to the soccor problem you describe would be to shrink the field in half. Or better yet, mix soccer with MMA and then even rugby and hockey would be boring as elbow strikes were dished out to steal the ball.
MMA is only exciting now, just wait soon they’ll be adding a 20 man cage match to MMA, then the all the excitement will be gone from standard MMA one on one matches. Oh wait, MMA with weapons…
I need to cut back on my caffiene intake.
Comment by Steve — 7/27/2006 @ 10:34 am
Eric…
It\’s really interesting….
Trackback by Eric — 7/24/2007 @ 4:44 am