European sports in America..

[ArenaBoy]

Well, I AM European, and i find football (soccer) beyond boring. Its tedious in the extreme (sorry, Arenaboy), the players are overpaid halfwits, although of course this could be said about the majority of premier team sports players in the world, and its just so dull and effeminate.

me, i like rugby.

No prob BFG, it's just the problem I have is that there are those who have never even watched a match once in their lives and they instantly bash it. In this country, the NFL reigns supreme when it isn't even real football. A friend of mine who came here from England actually called the NFL "a bunch of guys in oversized bicycle helmets and tight pants chasing a bad lookalike rugby ball up and down the pitch for three hours."
If you so much say you like soccer you get called all sorts of names, foot fairy being one of them by those who only know of the sport through the World Cup. And BFG, at times it can be effimate because of the godawful diving but I love it because of the tactics involved and rugby is a tough as nails sport.

[Barefootgirl]

Well, I AM European, and i find football (soccer) beyond boring. Its tedious in the extreme (sorry, Arenaboy), the players are overpaid halfwits, although of course this could be said about the majority of premier team sports players in the world, and its just so dull and effeminate.

me, i like rugby.

[AFPheonix]

I like to play soccer, watching it is not that exciting, however. I do have to say that baseball is more boring still. Gah, that game is VERY boring.

[Knightmare]

I'm sorry, but I don't like soccer. I played in a league when I was a kid; I've watched it on television; I've tried to like it. But I don't. Maybe the games I've seen were bad ones. Boring, slow, no scoring, etc. Maybe it's because you can't use your hands? I don't know. I DO know that I understand it, I appreciate it, but I just can't get into it.

Rugby is a different matter, however. I love rugby.

But what the hell is up with Cricket??

[rahmota]

Hey I'd be happy to have more sports to choose from. In my high school we had basketball, softball, track or soccer to choose from. The social pecking oder went in that order for some reason too. I don't see what the big deal about where a sport comes from to be such a horrible thing.

And from what I've seen of Rugby I doubt anyone in the NFL could do very well in that. Also much as I like NASCAR when did that become a "sport"?

[ArenaBoy]

For those that do not know, I am a huge soccer fan (football to you awesome Brits). My profile picture is the logo of my team Chelsea. Living in America, soccer is sadly not very popular especially in my area known as the midwest. A lot of people are getting into soccer nowadays but there are people in my area who just refuse to accept that it's becoming popular. The other day, I was wearing my Chelsea jersey when a gentleman asked me what the heck my jersey was about. I explained the jersey and everything only to be called a: "Fucking wannabe European." That upset me greatly because I love it and I've played it since I was 5, I was happy to play it and watch it as I got older. Most of my family, who are all about "All-American" sports would always ask me when I would start playing real sports.
What irks me is that America is a country embracing of other cultures yet we refuse to accept a lousy sport. Fellow Americans, what's your take on this? Do you think that we should be more accepting of a sport from the other side of the globe? I say yes.