Comments on: Look out futbol, here comes football

By: Sunburst

Sunburst — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:25:35 +0000

This article obviously didn’t take much thought! It is short on fact with lots of boorishness!
Notwithstanding the complete lack of understanding of football you clearly do not understand anything about BP either!
Cast your mind back to 1998, if your brain has that ability and you will remember a merger between two oil giants – British Petroleum (BP) and American Oil Corporation (Amoco) formerly Standard Oil COmpany of Indiana.. The merged company – BP Amoco eventually became BP Global, but no longer was it British Petroleum!
So ease up on the jingoism and spend more time getting your facts straight. You might even find you win more friends!

By: Nick Lincoln

Nick Lincoln — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:07:07 +0000

Ryan T said:
“If it makes you feel any better my all time favorite band is Def Leppard.
They hail from Sheffield, England.
I’m not a “xenophobe” or a “racist” like you claim.
If I hated English people than why would my favorite band be English?”
Maybe it’s because Def Leppard are the Devil’s creation of US bland rock (Boston, Journey etc) spawned in a Mutt Lange test-tube, dimwit?
I’ve read your (or should it be “you’re”) posts in this particular feed. From here to Granada, or Grenada. Do yourself a favour and resist the urge to express yourself via a keyboard. You do NOT come out of it well.
Neurons etc. Love and kisses from the homeland.

By: Bdrunk

Bdrunk — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:51:18 +0000

On TV soccer, nascar, golf and bowling are all just weekend nap fodder.

By: This is not news

This is not news — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:43:40 +0000

Florio doesn’t like soccer. Florio doesn’t understand why people like soccer. Florio doesn’t like ESPN. Florio writes about stuff he doesn’t understand. When it comes to stuff you don’t understand, my advice to you Florio is to “PLUG UP THAT DAMN HOLE”. Stick to your post baiting, Favre-watching, NFL-player-tampering conspiracy theory stories. They are what generates the rare gems and (sometimes) hilarious, oftentimes pathetic commentary that most people really come here for.

By: Klytus

Klytus — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:11:26 +0000

Mr. Florio, for once, you and I are in agreement. The only thing worse than watching soccer is watching the PGA. At least, soccer isn’t nearly as pretentious as men’s professional golf. What’s all the hoopla about the World Cup?
Brazil is going to win it all, anyway.
And for all those Rugby fans who think American football is for wimps. I wish there was a way to bring the Rugby players to the U.S., suit em up and let them play American football with the Pittsburgh Steelers just once. We’ll see if the rugby players have a day’s work ahead of them.
GO STEELERS!

By: Ihateannouncers

Ihateannouncers — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:03:21 +0000

Forio, this is so lame……even for you…..Bashing ESPN, Football, and BP just to make your nbc masters happy??? Really, really LAME!!!

By: NitshkesGhost@1265

NitshkesGhost@1265 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:54:58 +0000

robert ethen says:
June 13, 2010 2:11 PM
It’s the beautiful game. Your ancestors will be turning over in their graves. Finish scratching your ass, sit back on that plaid couch, and shut up. The rest of us are trying to watch the World Cup.
Then what the hell are you doing commenting on this site. If you lawn ferries are so busy watching this over blown specticle, I would figure you should not have time to comment or even read this thread. It’s not like we spend Super bowl sunday logging in to http://www.lawnferry.com
P.S. I love my plaid couch. I probably beats the $hi+ out of the plastic 5 gal. bucket your sitting on. You 3rd world dirt farmer.

By: CleanSlaton

CleanSlaton — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:25:02 +0000

It’s possible to like both sports, you dumbass.
Reporting what you think instead of reporting important information about the NFL– is exactly why I’m jumping ship from this site at the first opportunity. There will be a copycat soon enough, with a similar format, but without you & your merry band of idiots.
What you don’t understand is that SOCCER CAME FIRST AND THAT’S WHY THE REST OF THE WORLD LOVES IT. It’s the sport that they knew first, and they’re having as tough a time adjusting to our sport as we are to theirs. However, I don’t see FIFA cramming soccer down Americans’ throats the way Goodell is trying to ruin the NFL regular season with games outside of the States.
That doesn’t make soccer ‘better’ than football, it just makes it better established.
Hell, I live in Texas; to mention soccer in the same sentence as football is sacrilege. I love football more than I love air.
Our country began as a colony and evolved its own sports culture apart from the rest of the world, with little outside influence, in conjunction with our own evolving American badass attitudes, hence the awesomely violent sport of football.
Americans should at least learn to respect the sport of soccer, even if it’s less entertaining. If you can’t get on board with rooting for our country, even if it’s because it’s the only sport we’re never favored in, then just shut up in front of the people that care about it. You’re losing us, Florio.
USA! USA! USA!
Go Texans!

By: EverybodyGotAIDS

EverybodyGotAIDS — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:08:44 +0000

Soccer is crap. Mark it down.

By: iamahospital

iamahospital — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:24:08 +0000

masturbate on your own time, florio.
don’t waste ours with your overtly ignorant ejaculations.

By: noturavragepunk

noturavragepunk — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:24:58 +0000

Okay, I usually am against the idea of watching soccer, but I work with one of my best friends, who is Mexican/Columbian, and he has gotten me to watch it. I am still not a fan, but I did catch part of the England America game as I was at Buffalo Wild Wings, It was fun when America scored but outside of that, there really isn’t a lot of excitement.
To the people that compare football to soccer is crazy, As a true fan of the NFL every play is exciting. There is just so much going on on the field.
And baseball is definitely more exciting then soccer. in soccer if you are behind by one point there is a chance you will never get that point, or it will take the rest of the game to get it, but in baseball everytime someone is at bat there is a chance they will hit a homerun and tie the game, or if someone is on base when the homerun is hit suddenly the other team has the lead, it is impossible for a comeback like that to happen in soccer.

By: paranoidandroid

paranoidandroid — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:01:36 +0000

As one poster put it, it solely depends on the individual but I will say that close-minded people will never get it. Its sad that you folks won’t even give it a chance but then again you’d eat your own to have the NFL season start up tomorrow. Pathetic, unpatriotic lumps of shit you all are. You’re prolly the same idiots who think the Olympics suck too.

By: John El Way

John El Way — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:35:23 +0000

http://www.theonion.com/video/soccer-officially-announces-it-is-gay,17603/

By: phillyfinsfan

phillyfinsfan — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:12:40 +0000

I love soccer. I’ve played it my whole life. The World Cup is exciting. It’s continuous action, not like American football (or handball) where there’s eight to thirteen minutes of action and the rest is walking and talking. If you don’t like it, go watch reruns of Muder She Wrote.

By: smarterthanyou

smarterthanyou — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:44:04 +0000

Seriously people. We’re pitting apples against oranges here. I already laid into Florio for making a fool of himself for the 1000th time. Now, for everyone who is on here making personal attacks, you’ve lost sight of this whole thing. Soccer does not need new fans. Especially people who have already decided that it is not worth his/her time. I’m a huge sports fan. I’m more than likely one of the biggest Chicago Bear’s fans on this planet. I coincidentally played Division 1 soccer in college. The rest of the world is not a true statement. I have traveled a large portion of the world playing soccer, and not everyone loves it. Just like not everyone here loves the NFL. In the end it’s about respect. If you can’t respect me for what I enjoy, choose to watch, play or what ever….then leave me alone. This article and the arguments that followed were to be related to sport. Not where you’re from and the proper use of this, that, and the other. I guess it all depends on what your definition of is is.

By: pellucov

pellucov — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:42:46 +0000

Hey Greg: ¿y como está tu español?

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:04:58 +0000

Hey peruano88:
It is “your” not “you’re.” Your grammar is equivalent to that of a caveman.

By: peruano88

peruano88 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:37:46 +0000

Me Florio. Me like big men run into each other. Me like big scores. Me dumb man. Me no know better.
You’re opinion on this Florio is equivalent to that of a caveman.

By: Run Ramone Run

Run Ramone Run — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:08:44 +0000

Football is a more rational game than soccer. You draw lots of plays, and emphasize execution. There is not much room for improvisation.
Soccer is a more creative game. Scoring is hard, cannot usually be planned, and it often takes the spontaneous and technically superb cooperation of several players in order to accomplish.
While in football you can settle for FGs and win a game that way, in soccer anything less than the perfection of the full thing means nothing. Often a team comes “this” close to scoring without succeeding, building the tension up, only to have the other team score in their first reasonable attempt and take the game.
So that’s some reasons why you would like soccer, if you were to take the time to build rapport with the sport.

By: bbeer

bbeer — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:23:02 +0000

I dont like “futbol” either. But Florio, this is dumb. Just because you have freedom of typing whatever goes through your head doesn’t mean you should. Example A: this article.

By: work blocked deadspin

work blocked deadspin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:05:35 +0000

come on, somebody must have beat me to that little zing with 256 omments.

By: work blocked deadspin

work blocked deadspin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:01:03 +0000

In the NFL, soccer is known as:
Sock her

By: McDBoss

McDBoss — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:55:01 +0000

NICE NICE NICE!!! F#$K SOCCER!

By: texasPHINSfan

texasPHINSfan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:15:33 +0000

“pellucov says:
June 14, 2010 11:09 AM
Can´t we all just get along?
NFL: great sport
Soccer, football, futbol, futebol, fussball, voetbal, calcio (you know this word Florio, you should): great sport
Greatest world sport event: World Cup Final, unfortunantely happens only every four year
2nd greatest world sport event: tie between Super Bowl and Champions League final…
Will NFL one day become most popular sport worldwide? No way.
Will soccer one day be as popular as the NFL in the USA? No way.
But there is no reason why one person cannot enjoy soccer and the NFL, I lived as a teenager in the USA and at first I was lost, no soccer coverage at all, couldn’t get highlights, just barely results on the newspapers (no internet back then) so I decided to learn about american sports….basketball is truly international and it was fun to watch the Celtics (Larry Bird) Lakers (Magic, Kareem, James Worthy) or a young Michael Jordan….baseball puts me to sleep, I’m sorry….but the NFL was truly exceptional, I was lucky enough I guess to have lived in South Florida during the Marino prime years, and it was fantastic….I still consider myself a huge fan of the game, I have even set up a fantasy league to play with my friends.
Anyway, both are great sports. Go Dolphins y vamos Argentina!!!!”
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Wow, great post! (Makes sense since you’re a Dolphins fan
And I agree completely. I don’t see why people can’t enjoy both. I know I do.

By: texasPHINSfan

texasPHINSfan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:14:35 +0000

“boknowsvt says:
June 13, 2010 2:18 PM
If the guy is so ignorant, the why do you read his stuff? Why don’t you take your own advise: If you don’t like Florio, don’t read his posts.”
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I come here for the NFL news genius, not his views on soccer. That’s why I said “if you don’t like soccer, keep it off this site”.

By: Patsfan1776

Patsfan1776 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:10:21 +0000

I would also like to point out to all of those people that say Futbol, the game you Americans call soccer, that if you look up the origin of the word soccer; it is a BRITISH word!

By: Shaun Lowrie

Shaun Lowrie — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:03:21 +0000

Pellucov is spot on. No need for bitter tit-for-tat.
To be honest, the first 10 games haven’t been so great (though the Germany-Australia game was ok) as teams try desperately not to lose. It’s always a bit of an anti-climax that hots up through the rest of the competition.
I just hope that we don’t have more of this kind of bizarre crossover stuff on here again. I come here for NFL news and to be truthful, the site has gone downhill in that respect lately too. If I had to put up with odd Brit-bashing I’d probably just go elsewhere.

By: RyanT.

RyanT. — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:38:00 +0000

dmciggle,
If it makes you feel any better my all time favorite band is Def Leppard.
They hail from Sheffield, England.
I’m not a “xenophobe” or a “racist” like you claim.
If I hated English people than why would my favorite band be English?

By: RyanT.

RyanT. — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:35:21 +0000

dmciggle,
What is this hostility you soccer fans have towards official statistics?
I’ve been to Ireland a few times and many of my cousins still live there.
I cited the official government stats because that is the only scientific way to prove that GAA is more popular than soccer, by a wide margin.
I am not anti-British. I rather like the UK, but just because I hate the lousy sport of soccer, you assume I hate all British people. Fine. Make assumptions all you want to. I like Rugby. Why you English people prefer Soccer to Rugby is a bit of a mystery to me, and while I think your daft, I don’t hate you.

By: dark64

dark64 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:03:06 +0000

Florio-
Nail. Head. Bam!
Congrats on getting it 100% right.