Re: [ZION] Soccer Rules!
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would MUCH rather watch a soccer game (or lacrosse game...or hockey game...) than watch basketball. I can't STAND basketball! -- I don't necessarily disagree with you here. That is, I don't particularly care for basketball myself. But I see it simply as being a fast-paced, higher-scoring version of soccer. The only thing I see in both sports is a bunch of people running from one side of the court or field to the other. But at least in basketball when someone shoots they usually at least hit the backboard. There are many instances (the majority) in soccer where the ball goes no where near the goal while shooting. I say if you have to have soccer, get rid of the regulation time and go straight to the penalty kicks that almost inevitably determine the outcome of the game since there are so many ties. It would save everyone a lot of time and anguish. Cousin Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right. -- Carl Schurz // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / --^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^
Re: [ZION] Soccer Rules!
I would MUCH rather watch a soccer game (or lacrosse game...or hockey game...) than watch basketball. I can't STAND basketball! Watching it is, for me, like being in the same room with a person who is running their fingernails down a blackboard. And... not only is basketball a terrible sport, in my opinion, but the players - in addition to being freaks of nature - are spoiled brats who make way too much money for what they do. Of course, there are many players of other sports who are spoiled brats, also, but it seems to me that basketball players are amongst the worst of the lot. Soccer, lacrosse and hockey are such exciting games, and even more so when one understands the rules strategy. One of my sisters plays on a co-ed soccer team in the Washington DC area. Recently, she got a yellow card (a foul, in other words); the ref made what my sister felt to be a terrible call and so, as she walked past him, she muttered moron under her breath. The ref heard her and gave her a yellow card. That's my Kimi! Just my 2 cents worth... Heidi the fair [Original Message] From: Rusty Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/13/2003 11:45:15 PM Subject: Re: [ZION] Soccer Rules! Soccer in my personal opinion requires a lot more of everything than almost any other sport, and with all due respect to foot ball fans, there is no comparison between the two in terms of the physical and mental demands-- soccer wins easily; foot ball-- the players get to take all sorts of breaks. soccer-- you run the whole time, 45 minute? halves and don't have the benefit of protective padding like our football players do. if you can't crawl off the field due to an injury, they will stop the game long enough to get you out of the way, and then it's back to the game :) while it is true that normal size people can play soccer- for example, i was chief bench warmer on my college team- to make any headway in the sport, you have to be good. the rest of the world plays soccer like we play baseball-- they are crazy about it. a few months ago we had a demonstration womanes game (I think) here in Seattle-- people flew in from Europe by the 1000's to see the game, and it was not even a league game ! if you really want to drive dull nails into your head-- well, that's your choice, but personally, I find soccer a lot more fun to watch than baseball or football. instead of nails, try flaming bamboo splinters under your fingernails :) just my opinion. Bob Taylor From: John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't feel the way you do about football, soccer and baseball. Professional football in this country cannot be played by ordinary people. They have to be giants. It is the same way with basketball: the best players are virtually freaks. But normal sized people can play soccer. -- Exactly my point. Soccer is a wimpy sport that anyone can play. Well, almost anyone. I'm so wimpy I probably couldn't play it. -- As for baseball, well... when my kids all got stuck out in right field while the coaches kid got to be pitcher I learned that baseball, softball actually, wasn't much of a sport except for a favored few. When I put my kids in soccer they all got to play their guts out every minute that they were in good enough shape to play. -- Grampa Bill never let any of us kids play sports. He thought that we wouldn't study if we were playing. I guess I showed him. I didn't study anyway. :-) At the time I wasn't too concerned about not playing sports, but now I wish I had done something. I will admit that those who play soccer seem to have a good time. I personally don't see how you can call it shooting when the kicked ball goes no where near the goal. So I will grant you a point on soccer perhaps being a fun game to play. But I think I would rather drive dull nails into my temples than to have to sit through watching a soccer match. Cousin Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right. -- Carl Schurz /// /// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// /// // ** There are no coincidences, only small miracles. Author Unknown ** // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http
Re: [ZION] Soccer Rules!
From: John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't feel the way you do about football, soccer and baseball. Professional football in this country cannot be played by ordinary people. They have to be giants. It is the same way with basketball: the best players are virtually freaks. But normal sized people can play soccer. -- Exactly my point. Soccer is a wimpy sport that anyone can play. Well, almost anyone. I'm so wimpy I probably couldn't play it. -- As for baseball, well... when my kids all got stuck out in right field while the coaches kid got to be pitcher I learned that baseball, softball actually, wasn't much of a sport except for a favored few. When I put my kids in soccer they all got to play their guts out every minute that they were in good enough shape to play. -- Grampa Bill never let any of us kids play sports. He thought that we wouldn't study if we were playing. I guess I showed him. I didn't study anyway. :-) At the time I wasn't too concerned about not playing sports, but now I wish I had done something. I will admit that those who play soccer seem to have a good time. I personally don't see how you can call it shooting when the kicked ball goes no where near the goal. So I will grant you a point on soccer perhaps being a fun game to play. But I think I would rather drive dull nails into my temples than to have to sit through watching a soccer match. Cousin Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right. -- Carl Schurz // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / --^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^
Re: [ZION] Soccer Rules!
Soccer in my personal opinion requires a lot more of everything than almost any other sport, and with all due respect to foot ball fans, there is no comparison between the two in terms of the physical and mental demands-- soccer wins easily; foot ball-- the players get to take all sorts of breaks. soccer-- you run the whole time, 45 minute? halves and don't have the benefit of protective padding like our football players do. if you can't crawl off the field due to an injury, they will stop the game long enough to get you out of the way, and then it's back to the game :) while it is true that normal size people can play soccer- for example, i was chief bench warmer on my college team- to make any headway in the sport, you have to be good. the rest of the world plays soccer like we play baseball-- they are crazy about it. a few months ago we had a demonstration womanes game (I think) here in Seattle-- people flew in from Europe by the 1000's to see the game, and it was not even a league game ! if you really want to drive dull nails into your head-- well, that's your choice, but personally, I find soccer a lot more fun to watch than baseball or football. instead of nails, try flaming bamboo splinters under your fingernails :) just my opinion. Bob Taylor From: John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't feel the way you do about football, soccer and baseball. Professional football in this country cannot be played by ordinary people. They have to be giants. It is the same way with basketball: the best players are virtually freaks. But normal sized people can play soccer. -- Exactly my point. Soccer is a wimpy sport that anyone can play. Well, almost anyone. I'm so wimpy I probably couldn't play it. -- As for baseball, well... when my kids all got stuck out in right field while the coaches kid got to be pitcher I learned that baseball, softball actually, wasn't much of a sport except for a favored few. When I put my kids in soccer they all got to play their guts out every minute that they were in good enough shape to play. -- Grampa Bill never let any of us kids play sports. He thought that we wouldn't study if we were playing. I guess I showed him. I didn't study anyway. :-) At the time I wasn't too concerned about not playing sports, but now I wish I had done something. I will admit that those who play soccer seem to have a good time. I personally don't see how you can call it shooting when the kicked ball goes no where near the goal. So I will grant you a point on soccer perhaps being a fun game to play. But I think I would rather drive dull nails into my temples than to have to sit through watching a soccer match. Cousin Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right. -- Carl Schurz // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ** There are no coincidences, only small miracles. Author Unknown ** // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / --^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^
