Billy,
It helped me to understand a bit when my daughter played soccer from about 5 yr old through high school. It gets exciting when you really want your team to win. The emotion component is critical. I can watch a pro (real) football game between two teams I don't really care about and love it, but I need to care about the outcome in a soccer game. I watched our national woman's team win the world championship a few years ago. That was fun for me to watch. For me, hockey and soccer are about on a par. I enjoyed Olympic hockey when our guys were playing, but I wouldn't bother to watch a typical NHL game; and I played a little hockey when I was a kid. Chris _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RC] questions Chris: Soccer utterly mystifies me. How can anyone get excited about a game with almost no points scored ? More germane, how can the whole world get excited about ping pong played with the feet ? Of course, there is a joke about a Russian who watched an American ( real ) football game. "What is all the excitement about ?" he wondered . "Get up, fall down, then get up and fall down again. " Yeah, but at the end the score is 27 - 14 or maybe even 54 - 38. True, baseball games can be low scoring, but an average score is more like 4-3 or 7 - 2. Similarly with hockey, just a little less. In basketball, which the rest of the world does enjoy, games are typically in the 89 - 74 range, or sometimes 101 - 95. So, why does the rest of the world find basketball worthwhile but simultaneously also like soccer ? Makes no sense to me. Billy =================================================== In a message dated 6/13/2010 7:50:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Spoken like a true American! And, nope, I don't have any idea if there is such a thing as a high scoring game in the World Cup. Chris _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 12:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RC] questions ( 1 ) Does anyone know the percentage of World Cup soccer games where the score is not 1-0 or 1-1 or 2-1 ? Is it greater than 2 % ? ( 2 ) Does anyone know of a more pointless ( pun intended ) game ? Just thought I'd ask Billy _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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