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Originally posted by reds4ever
Mens rounders?
Mens rounders?
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Actually the rules are very different to rounders. Your ignorance is showing.
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but it's not concentrated effort, swing the bat three times, miss and thats you finished!Originally posted by C0ckney
bloody hell, and i thought our football season was packed. that's nearly a game every two days!Comment
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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Actually the rules are very different to rounders. Your ignorance is showing.
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..and don't even get me started on Mens Netball!!!Comment
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Womens FOOTBALL is only a big sport in America. In Europe, there might be a lot of women players, but it's not a big sport for audience. Men's football is another issue.
The Washington Freedom (Washington's womens soccer team) seems to average about 10,000 in the stands.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Muchos gracias. It looks like Real Madrid has the highest average--about 70,000. I guess that's probably average for a midling professional football team in the US. Many fewer home games, of course.Last seasons football attendance averages for what looks like every league in Europe.
Some of the European average soccer attendances are truly pathetic!I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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That's what national women's teams get in Europe, at the best. My wife thinks our 2-year old daughter will be a professional football player and I keep telling her that then she has to move to America. There's no money in womens football in Europe, as the male football is so good here.Originally posted by DanS
Womens FOOTBALL is only a big sport in America. In Europe, there might be a lot of women players, but it's not a big sport for audience. Men's football is another issue.
The Washington Freedom (Washington's womens soccer team) seems to average about 10,000 in the stands.So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
Be kind to the nerdiest guy in school. He will be your boss when you've grown up!Comment
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Dan
But Real Madrid will never be Real Barcalona, there are some things you can't put a price onComment
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that's nearly a game every two days!
Yeah, and most times teams play 3-4 games in a row, have a travel day and then play 3-4 games again in a row... until the end of the season.
Position players don't get too tired from it (they play defense and hit), but pitchers usually can't go every day (some relief pitchers who only pick an inning per game can string together a few games play though).“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Well, to be fair, there are only 8 women's pro soccer teams and 8 men's pro soccer teams.That's what national women's teams get in Europe, at the best. My wife thinks our 2-year old daughter will be a professional football player and I keep telling her that then she has to move to America. There's no money in womens football in Europe, as the male football is so good here
In college football there are 120 Division I-A teams, in pro ~30. In pro baseball there are ~30 teams, with ~120 farm pro teams plus numerous semi-pro teams.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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There's a young (male) player from the Washington area that immigrated from Ghana, who might make mens soccer more popular here. But it will probably continue to be like cycling. Limited appeal, even if your guy dominates the Tour de France.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Freddie Adu?
I think that within 50 years, soccer will reach the level of hockey, at the least. Sten, OTOH, thinks it'll be 20 years before it dominates. He's a bit too optimistic.
But it'll definetly catch on, especially with the changing demographic of America. The Latino immigrants will help the sport rise (MLS should have a soccer team in Texas, IMO).“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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freddie adu is a good little player, he'll be off to spain, italy or maybe here when he's a bit older most likely.
i know a little about the american league, it's very, very different to leagues anywhere else. the transfers are wierd (drafts and all that) and there's no promotions/relegation!"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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Yeah, it's a more American league.
About no promotions/relegation, there aren't enough teams for that right now. It might bankrupt the league if they were to form that many teams and try to have them all make money.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Yes that sucks, but it's not really possible when you only have 8 teams. There are a few european countries (really crappy ones) that don't have enough pro teams to support more than one league.Originally posted by C0ckney
there's no promotions/relegation!If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.Comment
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