World Cup 2006

[Gen. Volkov]

YAY! Too bad you don't like ND, then you'd be my new best friend. *laughs*.

[The Beatles]

Exactly, American football and basketball have so many dang interruptions, advertising has plenty of time to steal in -- and the players rest, like pansies.

[Kraken]

WHATEVER Beatle head!
your just jealous cause you cant even run a mile without your inhaler

[Freenhult]

*Gasps*

[Gen. Volkov]

Soccer players rest too. I watched one, and I used to play soccer when I was young. They/we spend alot of the time just standing around. Basketball players actually move more than soccer players. So I still maintain that soccer players are pansies. And in football, the time spent resting between plays is good, because during the plays, they give it everything they have. It's alot like war, alot of time waiting around, and then 10 seconds of tremendous exertion.

[The Beatles]

I run a kilometer in 5 mins and 30 secs.

[Gen. Volkov]

So you run a mile in 8 minutes?

[Nuclear Raunch]

Futbol players don't rest, however they don't run fast most of the time either. It's a stretch to call it jogging. I equate it more to futbol is more for marathon and football is more for sprint. Basketball I also find to be the most tiring, especially if you play a team with a wide-open offense.

Anytime football players may rest, but you will never see a player standing on the sidelines getting some bandaids applied when he's supposed to be in the game. When futbol players do it their teammates don't even notice the difference either. Football if a player is 3 feet away from where he's supposed to be he's gonna be leaving the game so his coach can yell at him for it. Futbol the guy's 40 yards from where he's supposed to be, and the cut's below the eye and insignificant.

BTW I'd have to watch 10 episodes of M*A*S*H* nto see all the stretchers I see in one game of futbol. And miraculously evry time they're fine 30 seconds after being hauled off the field.[/sarcasm] It's funny how football only does a stretcher in cases where it's needed because they don't want to get negative publicity about it being too rough of a sport, and to the untrained eye futbol seems to revel in it.

[Gen. Volkov]

What about the many many penalty shots, thrown ins, corner kicks and whatnot where they all just stand around for awhile until the ball is back in play? And the defensive players stand around quite a bit as well.

[The Beatles]

Yes, but the point is, no ads. Can't beat that. Anyways, even with those, it is a sport that does require more endurance, since association football players have to sprint a lot too, besides kicks, headers, balls on chest etc. And of course, there's the jogging too. But it's not all jogging, there's a lot of sprinting.

[Gen. Volkov]

They do to have ads Beatles! I've watched games, not only are there commercial breaks, but there are big logos all over the place, especially on the players themselves. The only place I've seen more advertising is on the back wall of a baseball stadium. And of the major American sports, the only logos you see are one the ball, and the uniforms, and that's because that's who MADE the stuff.

[The Beatles]

In a pro match, there are no ads on players. You must be thinking of something else.

There are logos over the sidelines in most matches I know. But the only single break in a football match is at half time. Otherwise, it's two uninterrupted 45-minute intervals. What are you on about? For normal programming, e.g. sitcoms and whatnot, ads come every 10 minutes, for movies it's similar.

And you gotta be kidding. I just attended a basketball match a month ago, as we received free tickets, and it wouldn't have been good form for my Mum to go alone. It was absolutely terrible, very loud, but anyways, there were ads all over the place, on the sidelines and the screens. Plus breaks every 10 minutes, which a broadcast would make use of.

[Gen. Volkov]

And I saw ads all over the place when I watched Brazil's match against.. someone. Brazil's first match. Ads and logos on the players, ads and logos on the sidelines. And the breaks "every ten minutes" in the basketball match are called timeouts. They make strategic use of them in order to gain advantage. And I notice plenty of play stoppage in soccer matches.

[Devari]

According to you it is... my info may be inaccurate in that regard, but it is a fact that a higher percentage of the American population plays soccer than in the Canadian population. I think hockey is Canada's most popular sport though.

Something interesting I've noticed in the past few days - people in Canada are getting excited by the World Cup! So, maybe football is on the rise in Canada...

Actually, where I live, the order for playing preference is about Hockey>Football=Baseball>Rugby>Pigskin. Of course, for spectating preference, football and baseball can't touch Hockey or Pigskin (American Football) - but that is only because of the NHL and CFL.

But football trumps all here for a game that people can just pick up and play casually.

But we have good weather all year 'round on the West Coast, so that may contribute to the popularity of Football over Pigskin. And is also the reason that pick-up hockey is non-existant.

[Tarnak Vishu]

I miss hockey already. I want to see Luongo play for the Canucks.

I notice people in Canada are getting excited as well. When Italy was playing, everyone had big Italian flags on their cars and they were honkin' their horns.

Go Germany.