Raleigh Talk Radio

[Jon]

Sorry, after the funeral at the get together to reminisce about the departed.

[Silkk the Shaka]

An ex coworker was on the US team in Beijing. She said we don't see the worst part of the game, what goes on under the water, it's vicious.

Soccer is about endurance. Guys like Bastian Schweinstieger running 10 miles during the game, that's insane and impressive.

Very cool! It looks like 80% of that team went to UCLA or USC, did you two work together in SoCal?

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Very cool! It looks like 80% of that team went to UCLA or USC, did you two work together in SoCal?

USC and Stanford have won the last nine women's championships, with UCLA winning 5 in a row before that.  No school outside those three has even been runner-up since 2004.

[Silkk the Shaka]

USC and Stanford have won the last nine women's championships, with UCLA winning 5 in a row before that.  No school outside those three has even been runner-up since 2004.

Definitely seems to be a California-dominated sport. Almost exclusively Californian in fact! Never knew that, very interesting.

[CTWarrior]

I would rather watch a 0-0 soccer match than just about any football game. It's painfully boring. I want to watch actual game action. Football has 11 minutes of that in a 3+ hour timespan. Soccer has 95+ minutes of action in 2 hours.

And it's worse for the players because with the offense/defense swap outs, those players are only spending about 5 minutes every 3 hours doing something (factoring a minute for special teams). How is that fun? In soccer, you're actually playing the game those 95+ minutes.

I'm amazed anyone is physically capable of sitting still for an entire football game when literally 93.9% of the time there is absolutely nothing going on.

You and I define "action" a little differently.  I find soccer really boring even though they are constantly playing because so little of it is play that will lead to something tangible, and football just as bad, because if you flip to a football game you are probably 5 or 6 times more likely to land on a commercial than live play.

But I like baseball, which most people consider the most boring sport of them all.  To each his own.  I wouldn't presume to tell anybody what they should like.  The older I get, though, the more my sports viewing habits have been reduced to MLB and NCAA hoops, which are the two sports I played through high school.  I understand the NBA is higher quality than NCAA, and I can't tell you why I like college hoops better, but I just do.

Oh, and though it is not a sport since it is judged, rhythmic gymnastics is the most underrated view in all of sports.  Its like a really good circus act.