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27 May 2009, 7:23 pm

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Soccer's boring. REAL football is where the action is at!
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Its not real football. Football aka what you call soccer was created a long time before, and yes like the person above said, its just rugby with pads on. And with a load of outreagous rules.



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27 May 2009, 7:55 pm

I actually love soccer/football. I live in America, but it's still pretty popular. I play it almost every day, and I watch it whenever I can. I watched the champion's league final today. Go Barca!



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27 May 2009, 7:59 pm

I don't hate Soccer but I will not walk across the street to watch it. In fact I would walk across the street to watch paint dry instead.



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27 May 2009, 8:01 pm

ladyinred wrote:
RockDrummer616 wrote:
Soccer's boring. REAL football is where the action is at!
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Its not real football. Football aka what you call soccer was created a long time before, and yes like the person above said, its just rugby with pads on. And with a load of outreagous rules.
Tell it to the NFL dumbass. They rake in billions of dollars every year calling that ^^ game Football.



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27 May 2009, 8:31 pm

If you consider how big america is and then the UK, real football wipes the floor with padded rugby with the amount it rakes in. Real football is enjoyed all over the world, its pretty rare for people outside the US to enjoy the NFL.



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27 May 2009, 10:02 pm

In my country, football is sacred. Yet I have absolutely no interest in it. I see football as a social distraction, something to talk about, something to look at when in a place with a tv, I guess a lot of the NT people don't really like football yet they follow the culture trend so they won't be left behind, thus almost everybody goes with a team, I don't.



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27 May 2009, 10:12 pm

I never cared for football or baseball growing up. I was more into science. As far as things like Monday night football or the World Series: I had no interest at all.


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27 May 2009, 11:03 pm

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If you consider how big america is and then the UK, real football wipes the floor with padded rugby with the amount it rakes in. Real football is enjoyed all over the world, its pretty rare for people outside the US to enjoy the NFL.
Whoopie s**t. Since there are 34 teams in the NFL this page makes it clear that with the 2007 year salary cap representing 57.5% of the NFL's earnings that the actual earnings of the NFL in 2007 was likely over 640 Billion dollars. According to this PDF the total of the Premiere European Clubs were nowhere near that in the 2005/2006 season and the French Leagues haven't even shown a profit until very recently.
And the 2005 cap was $85.5 million per team versus $109 million per team in 2007, that's a ratio that still leaves the Big 5 European Leagues sucking hind tit in comparison to the NFL. Maybe if ALL Soccer Leagues in the entire world combined their revenues they could almost catch up to the NFL.



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27 May 2009, 11:14 pm

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Whoopie sh**. Since there are 34 teams in the NFL this page makes it clear that with the 2007 year salary cap representing 57.5% of the NFL's earnings that the actual earnings of the NFL in 2007 was likely over 640 Billion dollars. According to this PDF the total of the Premiere European Clubs were nowhere near that in the 2005/2006 season and the French Leagues haven't even shown a profit until very recently.
And the 2005 cap was $85.5 million per team versus $109 million per team in 2007, that's a ratio that still leaves the Big 5 European Leagues sucking hind tit in comparison to the NFL. Maybe if ALL Soccer Leagues in the entire world combined their revenues they could almost catch up to the NFL.

You say these things as if it indicates anything except how much money Americans waste on a freaking sport.



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27 May 2009, 11:18 pm

Lecks wrote:
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Whoopie sh**. Since there are 34 teams in the NFL this page makes it clear that with the 2007 year salary cap representing 57.5% of the NFL's earnings that the actual earnings of the NFL in 2007 was likely over 640 Billion dollars. According to this PDF the total of the Premiere European Clubs were nowhere near that in the 2005/2006 season and the French Leagues haven't even shown a profit until very recently.
And the 2005 cap was $85.5 million per team versus $109 million per team in 2007, that's a ratio that still leaves the Big 5 European Leagues sucking hind tit in comparison to the NFL. Maybe if ALL Soccer Leagues in the entire world combined their revenues they could almost catch up to the NFL.

You say these things as if it indicates anything except how much money Americans waste on a freaking sport.

That is a good point. I was responding to ladyinred since she brought earnings into the discussion. She was also the one to introduce the term dumbass into the discussion.



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27 May 2009, 11:21 pm

velodog wrote:
That is a good point. I was responding to ladyinred since she brought earnings into the discussion. She was also the one to introduce the term dumbass into the discussion.

Ah well, let's not fight. Let's join hands and not care about football/soccer/kickyball/however-you-call-it.



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27 May 2009, 11:29 pm

Okay by me.



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27 May 2009, 11:46 pm

I don't like any sport with a ball. Well I don't like sports. Soccer isn't as bad as rugby though.


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28 May 2009, 4:55 am

I don't like football i don't watch it when england are playing.



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28 May 2009, 5:34 am

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Good point - I have to concede it does obfuscate the anti-patriotic wing of my plan, as they could always argue that they're being politically correct and multi-racial rather than downright fascist......it's curious that they still wave their national flags and shout "England!" when the players aren't particularly English.


Also, it seems that you don't even have to live in the same country as your favourite team or have any connections to the home town to support them.

Manchester United seems to have fan bases all over the world including India, China and Brazil. It was quite surreal stumbling across this accidently on TV. Some Indian lads were all sitting round watching a match on TV wearing their Man United football shirts.

The Clubs seem to be operating like a multinational company with the aid of multinational sponsors seeking out fans across the world, which would kind of obfuscate your plan even further.


Cultural and economic factors are at work here.
I think that some of it is just an excuse to flog expensive merchandise.

I don't know.

I'm all for freedom of choice but some of this seems well, surreal.

As an analogy, that's like me buying all the Chicago Bull's basketball memorabilia, and posters; and worshipping players even though I've never been to Chicago and don't have any relatives out there. This isn't something I'd consider doing. I wouldn't see the point. It'd just be surreal. I live thousands of miles away.

Edit: I found out about this team from a free gift in a sugary cereal that I was "force fed" when I was younger. Other teams are available



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28 May 2009, 6:22 am

velodog wrote:
Lecks wrote:
velodog wrote:
Whoopie sh**. Since there are 34 teams in the NFL this page makes it clear that with the 2007 year salary cap representing 57.5% of the NFL's earnings that the actual earnings of the NFL in 2007 was likely over 640 Billion dollars. According to this PDF the total of the Premiere European Clubs were nowhere near that in the 2005/2006 season and the French Leagues haven't even shown a profit until very recently.
And the 2005 cap was $85.5 million per team versus $109 million per team in 2007, that's a ratio that still leaves the Big 5 European Leagues sucking hind tit in comparison to the NFL. Maybe if ALL Soccer Leagues in the entire world combined their revenues they could almost catch up to the NFL.

You say these things as if it indicates anything except how much money Americans waste on a freaking sport.

That is a good point. I was responding to ladyinred since she brought earnings into the discussion. She was also the one to introduce the term dumbass into the discussion.


Lol, well that was gonna be my next point, wasting all the money on a sport only Americans enjoy. Plus, I can't see why they call the padded rugby football, when the um ball? Which isn't even round, spends a lot of time in the players hands :? Lol real football is a growing sport, still. Soon if you add Asia into the equation, the NFL earnings won't come close.