re: #167 Stanley Sea

Free Republic showing they’re a bunch of sports savants:

Feels like this soccer crap is being forced on us on ESPN, etc. Yes, just change the channel but why is there this effort to make believe that Americans love soccer and love the WNBA? They are two artificially created.
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The WNBA is about flopping and acting too?
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The WNBA is financed by the NBA and would not be able to support itself on it’s own.
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I think you may then be at least partially gay, seeing Soccer players as scantily clad women.

Perhaps you should seek therapy or a priest or something.
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All sports are artificially created. I don’t think anybody is trying to pretend the WNBA is popular. The World Cup on the other hand consistently got better ratings that the US Open over the weekend, so it’s at least a little popular.
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I care less about soccer then I do about worms on a fish hook. More globalist BS if you ask me.
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All the participation Trophy kids love it. They grew up on it like we did football/baseball/hockey. Brings back memories of free no-score pizza parties and group hugging.
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When the United States wins the world cup it will officially be a third world toilet. A country that is good at soccer is horrible at everything else.

But wait! A Freeper tries to play the snark card and points out people actually watch the World Cup:

LOL. Soccer is the world’s game and it is not being forced on us.
The England-Italy game that was played on Saturday averaged a 2.6 rating for ESPN with 4.615M viewers. That makes it ESPN/ESPN2’s most-watched non-U.S. Group Stage World Cup game ever. The network says that only three U.S. men’s Group Stage matches have delivered a larger audience (the side has yet to take the field this year). In terms of household ratings, England’s defeat at the hands of the Azzurri is the 2nd highest-rated non-U.S. Group Stage World Cup game, falling behind Thursday’s Brazil-Croatia opener which scored a record overnight average of 3.2 in the metered markets. Univision, meanwhile, reports that its World Cup audience is 25% larger among total viewers than in 2010 through eight matches.

I bet tonight’s US-Ghana game will draw more viewers (combined Univision and ESPN) than last night’s NBA fifth and final game.

The FIFA World Cup is the quadrennial soccer championship held every four years since 1930 (with two exceptions as a result of that whole WWII thing). The Cup’s final game is the single most viewed sporting event on earth. The 2010 match between Spain and The Netherlands was watched by an estimated 700 million people. That’s a decent chunk of the world’s entire population.

I’m sure other Freepers will stand up and agree with him, right? Let’s see:

Very unfair comparison.

Players in the WNBA aren’t PMS-ing nearly as much as those in international soccer.
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I am 67 years old, and I still remember the great time I had playing tackle football with my buddies, and viewing the introduction of soccer as a sport for those who were too pussified to play real football.
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Went out to eat with the family Saturday night. Restaurant had a dozen or so TVs going. Half with golf, half with soccer.

Golf seemed like a rollicking, riotous, outrageous good time compared to the soccer snoozefest.

Globalists love to make Americans think we like soccer. Then, the USA will blend in the rest of the world and cease being so darn exceptional.

Not yet.
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I don’t watch soccer because it reminds me too much of my love life during high school; a lot of chasing, elevated heart rate, lots of sweating…very little scoring.

A friend of mine describes soccer as, “A sport for all the homosexuals that don’t have the hand-eye coordination to play badminton.”
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I remember back in the 70’s when they were trying to jam this down our throats, along with the metric system..

A few folks seem to follow the game, and others don’t care because free markets mean ESPN is listening to their customers, but the anti-soccer idiots are funny.