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All-In [10862]
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1 Billion people
Dec 18, 2022, 8:17 AM
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Across the globe a Billion, with a capital B, people will watch today's World Cup final. We love our sports but we are not even close to the soccer fans around the world.
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Re: They have nothing else...***
Dec 18, 2022, 8:32 AM
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Hall of Famer [8226]
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Re: They have nothing else...***
Dec 18, 2022, 9:57 AM
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^^^^^^Wins “most arrogant statement of the year”
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Paw Master [16128]
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Just stating a fact***
Dec 18, 2022, 10:18 AM
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Re: Just stating a fact***
Dec 18, 2022, 10:26 AM
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They have literally everything except American football…
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Orange Blooded [2596]
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Re: I.E.Nothing else******
Dec 18, 2022, 11:54 AM
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Freshman [-95]
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Arrogant statement of the year?
Dec 18, 2022, 10:27 AM
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Somebody put a stick up your ###, sweetheart?
You doing OK? You need an ice pack? P****
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Freshman [-95]
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Re: They have nothing else...***
Dec 18, 2022, 10:26 AM
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Very true.
America started (US) football, baseball, basketball. There have been lots of choices for kids over the years.
In Latin America, SA and Europe, soccer dominates as it's somewhat of an international language for nations that neighbor each other.
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Re: They have nothing else...***
Dec 18, 2022, 10:30 AM
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They also have baseball, basketball, etc. This idea that there’s just nothing else for other countries to participate in is just wrong.
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Paw Master [16128]
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The point is the best athletes in the US play football...
Dec 18, 2022, 11:04 AM
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baseball, basketball, and even hockey. Then soccer comes in after that.
Italy's best athletes aren't playing baseball.
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Re: The point is the best athletes in the US play football...
Dec 18, 2022, 11:13 AM
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You need to define “best athlete”. Most of the best and dedicated athletes I’ve worked with are soccer players. The laziest are football players.
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Paw Master [16128]
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Regardless of your experience the best athletes in the US...
Dec 18, 2022, 11:19 AM
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play football, baseball and basketball. Have you ever watched the NFL?
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Re: Regardless of your experience the best athletes in the US...
Dec 18, 2022, 11:46 AM
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Its all just opinion and I’m not trying to pick a fight. It’s just comical to me how people discount soccer athletes in the US.
What makes a great athlete? Ability to catch a ball? Throw a ball? Is it speed? Agility? Stamina? Skill? Strength? Jumping ability?
Half the NFL is morbidly obese and couldn’t run a mile if you gave them all day…but they can bench press a house and run for 8 seconds at a time, then take a rest for a minute. Is that the definition of great athlete?
Personally I believe the “best athletes” are found doing the decathlon/pentathlon.
It’s irritating to see people discount soccer just because the don’t like the game.
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Fan [32]
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Re: Regardless of your experience the best athletes in the US...
Dec 20, 2022, 7:12 PM
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Would be nice to see them score every once in awhile.
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Re: Regardless of your experience the best athletes in the US...
Dec 20, 2022, 7:52 PM
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You have no choice but to be an athlete when playing soccer. It does not stop for timeouts or commercials. I played and in high school I would say soccer, basketball and tennis were the most athletic. Football had athletes but most were big and overweight and would have dropped dead if you had told them to sprint to the other end line and back.
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Game Changer [2045]
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Re: Regardless of your experience the best athletes in the US...
Dec 20, 2022, 11:43 PM
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What soccer player could play American football? Dang only the goalies could attempt to be receivers because no other players know how to use their hands.
My kids don’t stop for timeouts or commercials either but they are not top notch athletes.
When a soccer player runs full speed they attempt to kick a ball. When a football player runs full speed they are trying to kick the ever living crud out of another human being.
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Paw Master [16128]
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Listen...I like soccer. I played in high school and watch..
Dec 18, 2022, 11:22 AM
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the Premiership (and gone to matches) and World Cup. I'm a big fan.
Even though I like soccer, I know that a lot of the US does not and it is arguably the 4th or 5th most popular sport in the US. Those are just facts.
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Re: The point is the best athletes in the US play football...
Dec 18, 2022, 1:17 PM
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You need to define “best athlete”. Most of the best and dedicated athletes I’ve worked with are soccer players. The laziest are football players.
You would be an expert, yes? No one cares about soccer here - get over it.
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Re: The point is the best athletes in the US play football...
Dec 18, 2022, 2:08 PM
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20+ years in sports rehab and performance training. Maybe not an expert but have rehabbed and trained hundreds of athletes.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [102421]
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Two sticks and a ball is all it takes to play soccer.
Dec 18, 2022, 8:38 AM
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They don't need helmets, pads or anything else if they play shirts and skins. Well, they need shirts but USCe sends thousand a year to third world countries after the 5th game of the season when they realize they aren't playing for another SECCCG for the 1000th time in a row.
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110%er [3805]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 18, 2022, 8:41 AM
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I don't know if they counted on me to watch today, but if so the number of viewers will be 1 billion minus one. If America was good enough to make the final, I'd watch. I'd also watch if they'd change the rules to disallow the goalkeeper from touching the ball with his hands, implement a rule that the team with the ball can't backtrack across the midfield line once crossed, and get rid of the offsides penalty. As an American, I want to see scoring, and a lot if it.
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Paw Master [17581]
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1 billion minus 2***
Dec 18, 2022, 9:05 AM
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110%er [3670]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 18, 2022, 9:38 AM
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I'll paint something and watch it dry. Soccer is about as exciting.
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Clemson Conqueror [11399]
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Not allowing goalie to use his hands...that's a great idea..
Dec 21, 2022, 7:24 AM
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My approach was to make the goal two feet taller and five feet wider, but your idea would work too!
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Paw Master [17203]
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World Cup…distracting from oppression since 1930***
Dec 18, 2022, 8:46 AM
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Clemson Icon [27026]
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Re: World Cup…distracting from oppression since 1930***
Dec 18, 2022, 8:53 AM
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Yep. Bet they wish they had tnet, too.
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Freshman [-74]
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Most of the world has bigger gripes than...
Dec 18, 2022, 11:11 AM
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...Cade Klubnik not playing against USuC ?
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Ultimate Tiger [33663]
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seems to me 1 Billion people waisted their time***
Dec 18, 2022, 9:06 AM
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Offensive Star [349]
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Re: seems to me 1 Billion people waisted their time***
Dec 18, 2022, 10:54 AM
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Boring game and the USA has been throwing money and effort into the sport. Kids starting at 4 years old and we never get better at it. Solution???
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Re: seems to me 1 Billion people waisted their time***
Dec 18, 2022, 11:02 AM
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We’re #13 in the world in mens soccer. We’re #1 in women’s. Is that bad?
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Orange Immortal [65617]
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I'm neither humbled nor impressed.
Dec 18, 2022, 9:35 AM
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But to each his own.
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CU Medallion [20897]
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Comparing apples to oranges...***
Dec 18, 2022, 9:46 AM
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Top TigerNet [32196]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 18, 2022, 9:47 AM
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...and I thot this was gonna be about Jenna Ortega's "Wednesday Dance" on Tik-Tok
meh
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National Champion [7178]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 18, 2022, 9:48 AM
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Go Tigers! ?
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Dynasty Maker [3463]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 18, 2022, 9:48 AM
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Can’t watch grown men get bumped into and roll on the ground for 5 mins like they were hit by a truck .
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 18, 2022, 9:50 AM
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The hate for soccer on TNet is strange. I’m definitely watching the match…
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Tiger Titan [50729]
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They ain’t gon watch no sissy communist sport.
Dec 18, 2022, 10:11 AM
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They like manly sports like football and baseball where you get to wear protective equipment and rest between plays.
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Top TigerNet [30059]
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It used to be a lot worse
Dec 18, 2022, 10:50 AM
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I remember I spent a day defending soccer on here back in like 2010 during that World Cup. And my tigerpulse took a beating that took YEARS to recover from
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Associate AD [831]
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LOL - I want to tell those knuckleheads...
Dec 18, 2022, 11:12 AM
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They better start liking soccer, because before many more decades pass, Memorial Stadium is going to host soccer not American football.
'Muricans have also been oblivious to Formula 1 until recent years, preferring to watch bubbas drive around in circles in NASCAR.
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Orange Immortal [65617]
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I'm old - that's admittedly part of the problem.
Dec 18, 2022, 11:06 AM
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There was no soccer around me when I was growing up. My high school had no soccer team. It was all football, basketball, and baseball. We had track, golf, and tennis as well. No soccer. My first interest in soccer was when I.M. Ibrahim brought championship soccer to Clemson, and Obed Ariri and Donald Igwebuike kicked for Clemson Football. All of that was great. Here's the thing about soccer in America ...
In many, perhaps most parts of the world, soccer is the biggest, most popular, most culturally ingrained sport. That is not the case in America. I know that hurts a lot of people's feelings, but it's the truth. Nothing to explain or apologize for. As demographics and attitudes change, that could (and probably will) change as well, but for the foreseable future, soccer will remain down the list. That doesn't make the U.S. ignorant or out of touch or "wrong" in any way; we just have a different history and culture. That seems to bother some people.
Soccer means a lot in most parts of the world. It does not mean as much in the U.S.A.. That's not wrong, it's the reality. It's not hate. It may change over time. Nothing needs explaining or correcting.
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Top TigerNet [30059]
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What you say about soccer in the past in the USA is correct .
Dec 18, 2022, 11:27 AM
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But I think it’s changing faster than you think now. I can see the difference already from even just 5 years ago or so to now.
Soccer is way more available to Americans to watch. MLS is expanding every year, every major European league is available to be fully streamed. Can watch every game of the Premier league, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and more if you wanted to.
It’s more popular on social media among young people as well. Soccer is one of the only sports with an average fan age that is getting younger.
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Paw Master [16128]
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I remember when Lacrosse was the fastest growing sport...
Dec 18, 2022, 11:31 AM
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in the USA. It's easy to grow fast when you are small. I'm not comparing soccer to lacrosse but soccer will never surpass the big 3 in the US in our lifetimes or even the lives of our grandchildren.
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Orange Immortal [65617]
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I get where you are coming from, but not sure what you
Dec 18, 2022, 12:02 PM
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are disagreeing with, regarding my post.
I acknowledge that soccer is growing in popularity in the U.S.. My daughters played soccer. I know there are soccer channels available 24/7. I get it. But still, culturally, and in overall popularity, soccer remains behind the big three. Only in the last decade do we have the first widely based generation of adults who grew up playing soccer, and of course interest and ratings will reflect that, now and going forward. Massive illegal immmigration will continue to be an impact as the culture changes due to those factors. It's generational, and it's happeneing, we just aren't there yet.
Football, baseball, and basketball still rule, because they are much, much more ingrained in our culture. Sure it's changing, and that's fine. That's no mystery, it's not complicated or controversial. Soccer just means less in America than it does in most other parts of the world, where soccer is everything.
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Associate AD [831]
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Re: I'm old - that's admittedly part of the problem.
Dec 18, 2022, 11:54 AM
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Well said! Except, the "soccer is boring" comments reflect some obtuseness.
Anyone who thinks this game is boring is beyond help!
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Orange Immortal [65617]
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???
Dec 18, 2022, 12:06 PM
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Well said! Except, the "soccer is boring" comments reflect some obtuseness.
I didn't say that.
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Heisman Winner [86021]
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All I can tell you is it will never be unanimously worldwide
Dec 18, 2022, 9:52 AM
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beloved until at least after I croak, which could be sooner than later with this Covid. I have tried to like soccer, all the way back to when I was at Clemson and Coach Ibrahim had nationally highly ranked teams. It is just too dang boring for me. And, as I always say, the fact that the game purposely prohibits you from using the most useful appendages God gave you, as a rule, is a big time turnoff.
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Ultimate Tiger [33888]
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Re: All I can tell you is it will never be unanimously worldwide
Dec 18, 2022, 10:11 AM
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I’ve never been a fan of soccer. No real reason, just never got interested but maybe 76 just hit on it. +1 for the logic and hope you feel better!
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Clemson Conqueror [11399]
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Yeah...unanimous would be a tall order!***
Dec 21, 2022, 7:32 AM
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Walk-On [76]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 18, 2022, 10:06 AM
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While I rarely watch soccer, great to see both teams’ players and fans so proud to sing their national anthems and represent their countries.
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Hall of Famer [9042]
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If I had literally nothing else to do, I still wouldnt watch soccer
Dec 18, 2022, 10:25 AM
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Most boring game ever conceived of.
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A close second to pro baseball or golf...both snooze fests.
Dec 18, 2022, 10:32 AM
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Freshman [-95]
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1 Billion ppl with no sh*t else to do....
Dec 18, 2022, 10:31 AM
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...but watch grown-@** men act like abject b***** when any other player runs into them.
I played the sport for 15 years and the HS soccer players from Mauldin were tougher than these national team pansies.
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Rival Killer [2726]
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Re: 1 Billion ppl with no sh*t else to do....
Dec 18, 2022, 11:05 AM
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Y’all should watch lacrosse if you want to see contact, scoring, toughness, and non stop action. It’s the original American game.
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Clemson Conqueror [11399]
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Yes...lacrosse is way more interesting than soccer, to me!***
Dec 21, 2022, 7:34 AM
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Tiger Spirit [9940]
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Dec 18, 2022, 10:35 AM
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Paw Warrior [4891]
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Re: -5****
Dec 18, 2022, 10:41 AM
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It’s just so boring to me along with tennis, golf and baseball.
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Orange Phenom [14650]
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If I want no scoring I'll hit the bar and ask for dates.***
Dec 18, 2022, 10:50 AM
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Top TigerNet [30059]
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1 billion May be an underestimate for this final
Dec 18, 2022, 10:52 AM
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The most anticipated final in terms of storyline
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Paw Master [16128]
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Well the world is 24 times bigger than the US pop...
Dec 18, 2022, 1:08 PM
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So should that be a surprise?
There are more communists in the world than Republicans or Democrats. Should the US hop on board with that too?
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Rival Killer [2667]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 18, 2022, 12:59 PM
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Well i want be the one that makes it a billion and one. LOL
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All-TigerNet [5706]
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They can have it…
Dec 18, 2022, 1:01 PM
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This country started going down hill when soccer started to get popular… coincidence? I think not!
Just kidding, but I do hate soccer as a sport
- ties are communist
- flopping is for millennials
- stoppage time is for refs on the take
- not sure what they are doing sliding around out there, but where I come from that sure that ain’t tackling
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Orange Phenom [14589]
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That was an incredible match
Dec 18, 2022, 1:04 PM
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I'm thankful that I can enjoy great soccer instead of being on the miserable posters that seek out soccer posts to specifically voice their disdain of the sport.
I hope yall enjoyed watching your paint dry. Personally a f*cking hate painting with a fiery passion, but this was one of the best championship games/matches I've ever watched for any sport. Glad I don't have to change places with yall.
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Game Changer [1809]
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Re: That was an incredible match
Dec 18, 2022, 1:23 PM
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I'm thankful that I can enjoy great soccer instead of being on the miserable posters that seek out soccer posts to specifically voice their disdain of the sport.
I hope yall enjoyed watching your paint dry. Personally a f*cking hate painting with a fiery passion, but this was one of the best championship games/matches I've ever watched for any sport. Glad I don't have to change places with yall.
You're just better than us!
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Paw Master [16128]
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Clemson Icon [25720]
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2 Billion people lack access to safe drinking water
Dec 18, 2022, 2:14 PM
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After soccer, the most popular sports in world are cricket, field hockey and tennis. You going to go crazy posting cricket World Cup results next?
Who cares what people watch? Enjoy what you want, and I’ll care about soccer every 4 years just like I do water polo.
That being said, todays match was fun to watch. I’ll be sure to tune in again in 4 years.
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Rival Killer [2726]
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A billion people have poor taste***
Dec 18, 2022, 2:15 PM
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The Biggest Problem with Soccer
Dec 20, 2022, 7:17 PM
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No cheerleaders…
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Clemson Conqueror [11117]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 20, 2022, 11:49 PM
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Doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I'm not watching that boring ### #### but if you like it then by all means enjoy it.
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Clemson Conqueror [11311]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 21, 2022, 5:45 AM
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I'm
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Clemson Conqueror [11311]
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Re: 1 Billion people
Dec 21, 2022, 5:50 AM
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I'm not particularly concerned with what the rest of the world does. Our sports are uniquely American, and that is more then good enough for me. If you want me to watch soccer then shorten the match and widen the goal.
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