OK, I am a dumb American, but this soccer final seems damn boring to me.....

[KansasVoter]

I know I am in a minority......

But 90 minutes and no score.

Too slow for me.

Now a shootout is something I can get excited about!!!! :-)

[SB37]

1. You're not kidding!

I've really tried. That has got to be the most boring damn thing ever!

I'd rather watch golf - at least there's no horns to keep me awake!

[AnArmyVeteran]

42. If soccer was the only thing on TV I'd put an axe through the screen.

[DJ13]

2. zzzzzzzz

[EmilyKent]

3. Hard-fought game with the teams

evenly matched. Great so far!

[KansasVoter]

4. I don't get it but honestly glad you are enjoying it.

[sandnsea]

5. Never watched a no-hitter?

Is that boring?

[KansasVoter]

8. Are you kidding me.......

That logic is not even close......

See how exciting one would be if they happened all the damn time.

There are many 0-0 and 1-1 games in soccer.

A no-hitter is exciting because it is unique.

[sandnsea]

26. I would think the talent makes it exciting n/t

[rucky]

62. almost. last night.

:(

[Warpy]

6. Boring is US football with those endless time outs

and what is so exciting about having a two lines of grotesquely oversized men run into each other in the middle of a cow pasture, anyway?

What you're supposed to be keeping your eye on in soccer is how the ball is moved down the field and what the goalkeeper does to avoid having those scores mount up.

They sell beer and cars during the half time break, not every 5 minutes. Perhaps that's where the boredom comes in.

[KansasVoter]

9. Well, you are of course wrong in the USA based on ratings.

[Warpy]

12. There's no accounting for poor taste

Britney Spears was popular, too.

[KansasVoter]

15. Wow, defensive are we? Move to Europe.

[fishwax]

36. speaking of defensive n/t

[11 Bravo]

70. And who gave us the Spice Girls?

[demosincebirth]

14. ...and those "two minute Warnings."

[swilton]

59. The timeouts have a function you know!

Promoting endless consumerism.....

I wasn't fascinated by the goalies as much as I was fascinated by the intricate dribbling....

I say long live soccer - I would rather watch sleek athletes run down the field in intricate maneuvers than those endless comercials and as you put it grotesquely oversized men in their padded suits any day.

[Telly Savalas]

76. With the excpetion of Barcelona is there a major soccer club

that doesn't have the logo of a corporate sponsor on the front of their jersey?

The promotion of endless consumerism is hardly unique to American sport.

I love soccer, but American football also requires a tremendous amount of athleticism and is extremely sophisticated strategically. Both sports are great so I don't see why fans of one feel the need to shit on the other.

[texanwitch]

7. Certain people are watching the game here,

I am not into sports.

[BR_Parkway]

10. It's like basketball in reverse - always thought they only needed to play

the final 3 minutes of that game, could eliminate all the back and forth before that ;)

[KansasVoter]

11. Good point!

[southernyankeebelle]

13. OK, I dare you to run up and down a field for 45 mins without stopping then taking a 6 min break and

then run up and down the field again. All without handling the ball with your hands.

[KansasVoter]

16. Shit, I can't do lots of sports well, does not mean they are exciting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Finals are either very good

or very dirty.

Since this been dirty... the triangulation et al has not come to be.

Yesterday's game was far better... and with flow.

This may still go to the shoot out...

[quinnox]

18. Soccer is boring, always has been

And so are most team sports, to me anyway. Whenever I see people going crazy over soccer in the stands on tv or running around like a fool after scoring a goal it makes me roll my eyes and gaze in wonder at why they think it is so exciting.

[Arugula Latte]

34. Me too. I don't get why sports are such a big deal.

My son plays baseball and basketball, and I have to admit I am a bad, bad mommy inside my head. Five minutes into a game, inevitably my thought is "when is this going to be over?"

[Book Lover]

19. What is exciting to you then, sport-wise? (nm)

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

20. Then you must not like sports, period.

I love American football. Love the NBA. Hockey is very nice.

You must be able to see the glaring paradox here: the low-scoring game actually creates excitement; it doesn't eliminate it. 0-0 means that the next goal is huge. Every drive to the goal is edge-of-the-seat stuff. I'd argue that a 0-0 game is far more exciting than a 2-0 game or a 7-3 game. It's simply a low-scoring sport. But I'm not so sure that low-scoring equals "boring." I loved game 7 of the NBA finals, and I can't remember a sloppier game. Baskets were at a premium. I also love NFL games which end 10-7 or 7-3 (provided they are well played).

It's simply a matter of whether or not the game is played well. I think this game has been played exceptionally well on both sides. Nederlands has been lucky. They should be down at least 2-0.

Go Greece.

[malaise]

21. This is anything but boring

The fouls are annoying but it is not boring - it's very tense.

[liquid diamond]

22. That'll do it. Soccer sucks.

[fascisthunter]

53. for you it does... not most of the World

[liquid diamond]

68. I guess the rest of the world likes being bored for 2 hours.

To each their own.

[fascisthunter]

69. no they aren't bored.... does that bother you?

try not to be so ego-centric... it really isn't about you.

[nadinbrzezinski]

75. You are annoyed that 700 m + were not bored?

That is, for the record, a bigger audience than so called American oh World Series...

To each his own... and yes THIS particular game was not exactly the best... but that is another matter.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

23. I hope you saw that goal.

[liquid diamond]

24. Over 100 minutes of back and forth and there's only one score.

This is such a lame sport. I'm sorry I wasted my time on this.

[hlthe2b]

25. Who did the octopus pick?

(I'll take his word for it, I think)

[CTyankee]

27. octopus picked spain.

i think this octopus business is extremely funny...

[rainbow4321]

30. Someone in the DU lounge said that he always picked the one on the right

side of him..and, as with the others he picked "correctly", he picked Spain, which was on his right side.

[rainbow4321]

28. The movie theater my daughter works at had it in 3D

$20/ticket. Crazy.
I told her before I had found this out that at least the theater would not be as busy today since it was World Cup's final game. Oh no, she told me, we are having it live on our 3D screen.
Imagine someone taking their family of, say, 3 or 4...and that total wouldn't even include refreshments. I think that I could spend the $100+ another way.

[Fuzz]

29. I love soccer, but this game was boring.

:(

Sad.

[liquid diamond]

32. Yeah. I tried watching the game with an open mind, but after this I'll

never sit through another whole soccer match. What a waste of time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Yesterday's game was MUCH BETTER

[Fuzz]

43. Most of them were much better then today's game.

Which sucks, because Americans probably watched the final and now they will bitch even more about soccer.

Edit:

It was a great tourney.

[tularetom]

31. Would you rather watch baseball? Now THERE'S a joke sport

In fact all American professional sports pretty much suck.

College sports (which are really semi-professional) are a bit better but the presentation of the games (filled with endless commercial breaks) makes them hard to watch on TV.

Go watch your local high school play basketball or football. It's far better than watching a bunch of millionaires make money for a few billionaires. And don't even get me started on the spectacle of financially strapped cities running up debt to build stadia for the fat cat owners. And wasn't that LaBron James special riveting?

The finances of international football are just as fucked up as American professional sports and the players are just as overpaid and spoiled. But the games are far more interesting to watrch - even low scoring affairs like the WC final.

We are out of step with the rest of the world in many ways folks. Sports is just one of them.

[CTyankee]

39. Here in New Haven, we love our Ivy League sports, particularly (but not only) football.

The Yale-Harvard football game is legend and it's played alternate years in NH and Boston. The Yale Bowl is not far from my house and I really love the feel of these Ivy League games. It's kinda cool cuz Ivy schools don't even have sports scholarships...so you know the players have to have some smarts to even be there...

[Fuzz]

45. The tailgates at the Yale-Harvard game are fun, unless it's 20 below zero

and your beer freezes. ;)

Don't live in CT anymore.

[CTyankee]

47. It is NEVER 20 below the weekend before Thanksgiving in New Haven.

It can be cold, yes, but we are not in Lambeau Field in January...

The last Ivy game is Harvard-Yale the 3rd Saturday in November, way before the snow falls. Most games are so much earlier that they are too warm, rather than too cold.

Altho I have been to some Harvard-Yale games that are pretty cold, it's nothing compared to what my husband describes about football games in WI when he was growing up.

[Fuzz]

56. Must have been another Yale game.

Was a long time ago. ;) I just remember nearly losing limbs.

[CTyankee]

58. Betcha it was in Ithaca, at a Cornell game.

That Ithaca stadium is brutal. Winter comes in early October and doesn't leave til the end of April. My sister in law lived there and I remember one BAD Cornell-Harvard game (I was married to a Harvard man then...don't ask...). I still don't understand how Cornell students can manage...

[Fuzz]

60. Heh, no. Was at Yale when I lived in the area. ;)

Used to love New Haven back in the 80's.

[CTyankee]

61. Well, it did get cold at the Harvard game, I must admit.

Did you go to Yale?

[Fuzz]

65. No graduated from Rutgers.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

40. Hey, don't pick on baseball!

:) It's been around since before the Civil War. If you fail 7 out of ten times as a hitter you are better than the average player. It has a lot, and I mean a lot of strategy going for it. It's not easy to hit a ball to begin with, then hit it in fair territory, then hit it where it's not caught.
Anyhow, it's apples and oranges.
With baseball each team gets an equal chance to score. In soccer,basketball, hockey, football and whatever, the possession thing changes so fast it requires a different approach to the game........

[AnArmyVeteran]

35. I'd rather have all my teeth pulled without pain killers than watch soccer!

It is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo B O R I N G !!!!!

They need to make the net four times bigger so scores would be like NBA scores. I'd like to see a soccer game with a score of 99-93, but not 90 minutes of torture without even a score. Gimme root canal without pain killers, but don't gimme soccer. It's just too painful to watch.

Update: I said I wouldn't want to see 90 minutes of torture. But the game lasted TWO HOURS so that's more like cruel and unusual punishment. I'd rather see two blind, elderly women with shaky hands trying to thread small needles with rope for two hours than watch soccer!

[spiritual_gunfighter]

37. Soccer is boring crap

Never understood its appeal.

[AnArmyVeteran]

41. I'd rather step on a rusty nail than watch 2 hours of soccer. It'd be less painful!

I have a shot for tetanus, but I don't have a shot against absolute boredom!!!

[rufus dog]

38. I can pick up the athletic and skill part of the game

But to me Soccer and the NBA need to clean up the BS calls. Not sure about Soccer but if you pull the flop BS on the playground playing bball you would get hammered the next time, to show you what a foul really is like. IMO the NBA and soccer should review all games after the fact, if a guy flops fine/penalize him, get enough penalties and get a game suspension. Guys would then get reputations as serial floppers and be less inclined to get calls which is fine.

[AnArmyVeteran]

44. I agree with what you said.

But they should give soccer teams 10 times outs apiece and they should stop the clock in between play. That would make the games last 15 hours and even the most fanatical fan would fall on his sword, or better still, impale themselves with a buzzing vuvuzelo.

[DCBob]

46. I hate the shootouts.. it reduces a very complex team game to a very simplistic one on one.matchup.

I wish they would just go to sudden death until someone scores.

[nevergiveup]

48. Why would anyone spend time watching a sport they hate

and then bitch about it. This never ceases to amaze me. If you don't like soccer then don't watch it and please stop moaning and groaning to those of us who love the sport.

[Telly Savalas]

77. +1

[Canuckistanian]

49. Many Europeans think basketball is boring

And why? Because there's TOO MUCH scoring. A single basket in a game means almost nothing when it happens 60 or more times.

For me, I find football boring. 20 seconds of action and 3 minutes of standing around while officials wave their arms and measure the field.

At least soccer is continuous with very relatively few breaks and halts in the game.

[ZombieHorde]

50. Of course it is borring. No zombies, no ninjas, no mutants, no giant monsters, no text.

[rurallib]

51. I was once a huge baseball fan. Been years since I last watched a game.

Baseball is so slow, 5 seconds of action surrounded by minutes of standing. And then there is the commercials --------
American football is pretty boring to me any more also. Take out the damn commercials -------

I have fallen in love with soccer. Mind you I fancy myself a real sports fan and onetime player.

But Spain's approach to soccer reminds me of Dean Smith's four corner offense that nearly choked college basketball in the late 70s and early 80s. It wins, but god it can be boring.

[Synicus Maximus]

52. It only seems boring because it is boring.

[Forkboy]

54. Soccer is an aquired taste.

I like it, but I also like things like the band To Live And Shave In L.A., so take this for what it's worth. :)

[cherokeeprogressive]

74. An acquired taste like that for oysters on the half-shell or bird's nest soup! LOL n/t

[fascisthunter]

55. This game in particular was not very exciting...

soccer itself is all of the above just like all other sports. What turns me off about US citizens putting the sport down is they have very little understanding and experience with the sport and choose to shut themselves off from it because it is embraced mostly by "outsiders", "foreigners" and "immigrants".

Most of the negativity towards the sport here in the US is xenophobic.

[Bill McBlueState]

57. People's tastes vary.

Film at 11.

[tekisui]

63. I loved it. It was nail-biting excitement.

You never know when the battle will break.

Of course, I think a no-hitter and extra-inning scoreless baseball is about the best thing that can happen in sports. It is in the anticipation and building suspense.

[Better Believe It]

64. I couldn't hear it. It seems they were under attack by a huge swarm of bees!

[itsrobert]

66. You are the uncounted Majority

Most Americans and the world citizens didn't watch the game today. The soccer nazi will not tell you the truth.

[AsahinaKimi]

67. I didn't find it boring...

In fact some of those missed shots had me on the edge of my seat. When you have two exceptional teams playing its bound to be a low scoring game.

I remember sitting in Candlestick park, watching the GIANTS play a game that went 15 innings because the pitchers kept striking people out and no one was hitting a thing...


or how about one of those low scoring Hockey games, where the Goalies are exceptional. It happens in sports all the time.


I remember a Superbowl where people were predicting a high scoring game, and it wasn't.


This game and the games prior have made me pay a little more attention to Soccer. I might even watch a few more MLS games now...


Like yesterday when San Jose beat up Philadelphia!

[jeffrey_X]

71. The World Cup tourny was great and there were a lot of great games, BUT

you are right....this game sucked.

Major letdown.

[MineralMan]

72. Be glad it's not rugby. Plenty of scoring, but not a lick of sense

to the rules.

Oh, yes...Up Chelsea!

[UTUSN]

73. You gotta pay attention. n/t