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2017-10-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Raj 2017-10-11 01:11|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Watch rugby union, much better than watching paint drying.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-10-11 03:03|| 2017-10-11 03:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I would rather watch paint dry.

Posted by Chris 2017-10-11 03:22|| 2017-10-11 03:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Like watching Patrick Roy frozen at the net during the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-10-11 07:38|| 2017-10-11 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Amen AA5839.

Posted by Beavis 2017-10-11 08:07|| 2017-10-11 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 ditto #1.
50 years ago I heard the perfect description of why soccer would not catch on in the US.

They played a clip from a game where the announcer was saying " ....and X takes an insurmountable 1 nil lead!!!!"

A 90 minute game with only 1 goal scored?? Chris, you may rather watch paint dry but what you get is watching grass grow.

Posted by AlanC 2017-10-11 08:20|| 2017-10-11 08:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Was worried for a moment. Then I realized this is just soccer.

Posted by Iblis 2017-10-11 12:05|| 2017-10-11 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 It is already time to re-seed the lawn?

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-10-11 13:10|| 2017-10-11 13:10|| Front Page Top

#8 More like watching paint weather.

Posted by no mo uro 2017-10-11 14:10|| 2017-10-11 14:10|| Front Page Top

#9 who cares?
soccer is the duck-billed platypus of the sports world; thier field, er pitch is a cross between real football and basketball, the teams, though highly sponsored cannot buy enough uniforms for everybody, so they make the odd guy out ( probably last selection in a pick up game) has to bring his own clothes and they really stand out. then to further humiliate him makes him stand in a 3 sided jail cell with Pillsbury Dough boy gloves on (looking like a cast-off from a Disney cartoon). then they play for 90 minutes, no offside calls for negative yardage or bench clering brawls. just referees running around handing out cards: "got any 6's?" no? here's a yellow card.
then at the end they add on whatever time they deem necessary to give the favored team time to win. not unlike democrats stuffing the ballot boxes.

and the final score is a tie sometimes, so everybody gets a participant award.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2017-10-11 14:40|| 2017-10-11 14:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Kinda descriptive of the EU there, USNR.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-10-11 15:53|| 2017-10-11 15:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Skid, it is a European game, after all.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-10-11 18:11|| 2017-10-11 18:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Isn't soccer a girl's game? US women's team did well in the Olympics. Bend it Like Beckham is about girl's soccer. They don't have real fights, just dramatic flailing on the ground pretending injuries to get a yellow card. Silly stuff most boys give up in middle school.

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