The Problems w/Soccer.
All quotes stolen from Celebrim on this post. Use cmd + f to locate celebrim. Hitting cmd + g will run the search again.
- Humans are not very good at it.
- There is no real measure of progress in the game of soccer.
- Because the game is so low scoring, there is no sport for which the refereeing is so important as soccer.
- Soccer is played on a huge pitch for 90 minutes of virtually unbroken play. Simply put, humans cannot sprint for 90 minutes even though the dictates of the game require that they do so. The result is that the game is extremely slow.
- Soccer is the most corrupt sport on the planet.
- Soccer is for some reason inordinately easy to get hurt playing.
- Resolving a game through penalty kicks does have its certain charm, but its a horrible measure of which team is actually the superior side.
Me on Nation-States and Futbol.
This is how I get my wife and daughter to LOL at the dinner table:
The camera was panning over the crowd for the France – Italy match. There were French flags and Italian flags everywhere. So, I said, in my most sarcastic voice, “Only Americans wave their flag around and support their country. Only Americans are attached to their country. Europeans, on the other hand, are more sophisticated and are beyond nationalism.
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Permit me to explain:
Once upon a time, all the shitty little European countries fought bloody wars of Imperialism and Oppression.
Now, they play futbol and let the fans handle the bloody bits.
Tis more dignified, guvnor.
/agree with vmarks.
Me, I think everyone should just switch to baseball.