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  • #1

    Objectively speaking, soccer is an inferior spectator sport...

    What I've always wanted to know is how the Brits can fit all of their pint-drinking and pie-eating into a mere 2 hour timeframe at a soccer match.

    Football is more like 3.5 hours, a much more suitable timeframe for the same. And then you have tailgating for the remainder.
    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, 1891
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    americans just don't get it when it comes to football.
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    • #3
      I think the Brits must have compensated for this inferiority by rioting for the remainder of their hellraising needs.
      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, 1891

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      • #4
        Thread #2 just confirms what I thought about #1. You're in a trolling mood.

        Carry on.
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        • #5
          Of course, soccer is the world's number one in terms of number of people watching and playing, so objectively it pwns gridiron.
          One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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          • #6
            Actually, this one isn't a troll. Or at least, there is a kernel of interest wrapped in a good thread title. College football games sometimes last 4, 4.5 hours. Baseball lasts 2.5 - 4 hours. NFL games last 3.5 hours, etc. Even a basketball game takes 2.5 hours.

            Soccer lasts no more than 2 hours. So it would seem that the copius amounts of British alcohol consumption are either done elsewhere, or at a blindingly fast rate at the match. Compare to the leisurely consumption at a cricket match.
            Last edited by DanS; October 30, 2005, 16:00.
            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, 1891

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            • #7
              In terms of 'action time' a soccer match is about 55-60 mins, which is the same as American Football. High pace games tend to be shorter.
              One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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              • #8
                I bring this up because it's tough to drink more than two or three beers at a baseball game before the 7th inning (last call), so I wondered how all of the soccer fans managed.

                Think of this discussion as an extension of the good parts/bad parts of Rugby Union football versus Rugby League (?) discussion that AH started.
                Last edited by DanS; October 30, 2005, 16:10.
                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, 1891

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                • #9
                  Not that many people drink during a FOOTBALL MATCH (note, not Soccer game), anyway, because the half-time pint is too expensive at all the grounds I've ever been to. Ergo, you drink before, and/or after, and make a day of it!

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                  • #10
                    down the pub. pint before the game starts, pint in the first half, pint at half time, pint for the second half, pint afterwards to celebrate victory/drown your sorrows. sorted.

                    going to the the match, get pissed beforehand.
                    "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 Botton

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                    • #11
                      Selling alcohol at football matches is often banned, so it may be a moot point.
                      One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Dauphin
                        Selling alcohol at football matches is banned, so its a moot point.
                        Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! You can't be serious! Even beer?

                        (It is banned at most college football games, but you have huge tailgating to compensate.)
                        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, 1891

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by DanS
                          Actually, this one isn't a troll. Or at least, there is a kernel of interest wrapped in a good thread title. College football games sometimes last 4, 4.5 hours. Baseball lasts 2.5 - 4 hours. NFL games last 3.5 hours, etc. Even a basketball game takes 2.5 hours.
                          Short attention spans. Less time watching the sport, more time in the pub.
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                          • #14
                            Then again, soccer is so boring to watch that you needn't ever stop drinking to follow any of the "action".
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                            • #15
                              I never got what straight guys get out of American football. If they spend the actual game drinking, I suppose the answer is "nothing".

                              Newsflash: You don't need an excuse to get sloshed.

                              Drink your head off, and then go watch a real sport when you've sobered up.
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