US vs Cuba

dutyje

kuzi16

Fourtotheflush

How was the match?

dutyje

kuzi16

dutyje

kuzi16

urbino

dutyje

They call that indoor soccer. I used to play a lot of that, but gave it up after my son was born. Change on the fly, fewer players, small field... boards to keep the ball in play. Lots more action. I only once saw a professional indoor soccer game, and I don't remember a whole lot about it. I think the American public has shown very little interest in lesser variants of established sports (Arena football, XFL... although the fighting/wrestling variants have done quite well).

kuzi16

urbino:

My theory has long been that the problem with soccer is the field (or pitch or whatever) is just too big.

the field isnt too big. the action takes place all over the fireld and you cant see it all. the same thing would happen with indoor soccer on tv. the NHL has the same problem. a play is developing off screen

urbino

kuzi16:

urbino:

My theory has long been that the problem with soccer is the field (or pitch or whatever) is just too big.

the field isnt too big. the action takes place all over the fireld and you cant see it all. the same thing would happen with indoor soccer on tv. the NHL has the same problem. a play is developing off screen

In terms of teevee marketability, that sounds to me like the very definition of a field that's too big.

kuzi16

urbino

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Luko

Fourtotheflush

urbino

I don't, and I have to admit I hate it.

kuzi16

kaspera79

Saints, Vikings, Bucs, Texans, Packers, Jaguars, Chargers, Browns, Cards, Jets, Rams, Colts. Eagles. and some other team I can't remember..

Luko

dutyje

Luko

urbino

I'd like to watch some cricket sometime. There's a guy at the office who plays on a local team (and apparently is very good). I keep saying I'm gonna go watch them play sometime, but I never have done it. I think I'd need to watch it on tv several times first, so I could kinda pick up what's happening from the commentary.

dutyje

urbino:

I'd like to watch some cricket sometime. There's a guy at the office who plays on a local team (and apparently is very good). I keep saying I'm gonna go watch them play sometime, but I never have done it. I think I'd need to watch it on tv several times first, so I could kinda pick up what's happening from the commentary.

I spent 24 hours vomiting in a hotel room in London, watching cricket the whole time. You don't really learn a whole lot when you have to take a time out every 3 minutes to dry heave.

Luko

dutyje

dutyje

Speaking of interesting ancestry, one time working at Wachovia, I was reviewing the resume of one Alexander Hamilton. After commenting to a friend about what lofty expectations he would be held to with a name like that, and that it was good the position didn't require a swift trigger finger, I came to find out that he was actually named after, and directly descended from, the Alexander Hamilton (former President and signer of the Constitution who lost his life in a duel with Aaron Burr). As if that weren't enough, the friend that I made the crack to is a direct descendant of Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. It's amazing, as the years go by, how many totally insignificant people are bred from the genes of a person of prominence.

Luko

dutyje

Luko

madurofan

dutyje:

the ones that aren't in the profession tend to be patients.

Explains why u're such a staunch democrat. lol