Canada together with Finland are the two countries where ice-hockey is easily the most popular spectator sport. In most European countries soccer is easily the most popular sport. Then there are countries such as Australia and New Zealand where rugby is very popular.
Why do you think ice-hockey appeals to people in countries like Finland and Canada as the most popular sport? In Sweden and Russia ice-hockey is also a popular spectator sport but in those countries soccer is more popular.
Do you think soccer is a girl sport?
Started by -TSS-, Mar 24 2012 01:32 PM
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:16 PM
Canada together with Finland are the two countries where ice-hockey is easily the most popular spectator sport. In most European countries soccer is easily the most popular sport. Then there are countries such as Australia and New Zealand where rugby is very popular.
Why do you think ice-hockey appeals to people in countries like Finland and Canada as the most popular sport? In Sweden and Russia ice-hockey is also a popular spectator sport but in those countries soccer is more popular.
Not at all, both my son and daughter play…….My son just finished a spring break mini camp…..And though we would have liked to have gone to South Africa for ‘10, we still got
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:21 PM
No one can convince me that Messi plays like a girl. 
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:26 PM
No it's a sport for Euro's with Greasy Mullets.
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:27 PM
No one can convince me that Messi plays like a girl.
He's 5'6, he certainly looks like a girl.
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:28 PM
No it's a sport for Euro's with Greasy Mullets.
The game is played and watched all over the planet………
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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-Barry Goldwater-
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:31 PM
No one can convince me that Messi plays like a girl.
Exactly........It's apples and lawn chairs when trying to compare with more popular North American sports........My boy plays soccer to keep fit and have fun……Now Rugby, that’s his religion.....
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan-
-Barry Goldwater-
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
-Winston Churchill-
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:32 PM
Soccer is a great sport to play.. just not to watch
Don't ban me bro. Oh behave, I'll behave. I'll be a good little boy.
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:39 PM
He's 5'6, he certainly looks like a girl.
I think it is mostly his hair though.
Soccer is a great sport to play.. just not to watch
I've never played organized soccer but I love watching it. Although I only end up watching international play.
I'm a MASSIVE hockey fan and I think it is the best sport in the world (I don't care if the popular vote says otherwise) but if I had to pick I would say Messi is the best athlete in the world. He dominates a sport that isn't easy to dominate and he actually makes it look easy.
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:40 PM
I must say that I'm a typical Finn in that sense that I really enjoy watching ice-hockey and have never understood the fascination some people have for the sport where a ball of pig skin is kicked around.
Ice hockey any day for me over that comatose sport called soccer but obviously the rest of the world disagrees with me.
Ice hockey any day for me over that comatose sport called soccer but obviously the rest of the world disagrees with me.
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 02:59 PM
I must say that I'm a typical Finn in that sense that I really enjoy watching ice-hockey and have never understood the fascination some people have for the sport where a ball of pig skin is kicked around.
Ice hockey any day for me over that comatose sport called soccer but obviously the rest of the world disagrees with me.
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 05:40 PM
The game is played and watched all over the planet………
I'm pleased as punch that soccer is popular in Burkina Faso....
Basically,I look at it like this...
We,in North America seem to be the only literates in an otherwise illiterate sporting world.
We get it!!!Soccer sucks!!!
I don't deny the athleticism to play the sport at a professional level,but,one has to be a great athelete to be a synchronized swimmer and most people don't give a rats hind quarters about that either...
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 05:41 PM
I must say that I'm a typical Finn in that sense that I really enjoy watching ice-hockey and have never understood the fascination some people have for the sport where a ball of pig skin is kicked around.
Ice hockey any day for me over that comatose sport called soccer but obviously the rest of the world disagrees with me.
Kickee ball sucks....REAL football rules!!!!
The beatings will continue until morale improves!!!
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 06:22 PM
Kickee ball sucks....REAL football rules!!!!
What exactly is that? Care to to enlightening me?
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Posted 24 March 2012 - 06:36 PM
What exactly is that? Care to to enlightening me?
Gridiron football...
The most viscious defender EVER!!!
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