The Gayness

In reflection of yesterdays post, I realized how much I dislike soccer. All of my brothers and sisters played soccer and thought they were glorious all stars. I look at soccer and see a game where about one or two people are actively moving or running. Everyone else is just standing around waiting for the action to come to them. How is that such a great time? Even when a person is on the field, they can spend most of it standing around and doing very little. They also have half times, which are a reason to laze around for however long half time is. Not in a race. You run as fast as you can until you finish. Its you against the clock.

Because of my dissatisfaction with soccer, I had to come up with a stance that allowed me to hate on soccer and be in support of my sport, cross country. I came up with a distinguishment between game and sport. In order for something to be a true sport, you can't play that activity. This meant that the only real sports were track &field, and cross country. All other so called activities were therefore things that were played, and not really a sport. I compared them to a board game at this point. I had to include basketball in this category. This was worth it though. I got to laugh at my brothers and sisters for thinking soccer was the greatest thing around.

This is part of the problem with our soccer as a whole. I want to see a competitive game where the action is really back and forth. Soccer games are very low scoring and can end in ties. What kind of game is there where a tie is a satisfactory end to a contest? That is hardly what anyone wants to see. How is that type of game enjoyable?

Running and cross country are so much better. Everyone is competing to do their best. You are racing against the guy ahead of you. You determine your level of success. Don't want to try as hard? You lose. Didn't do as well as you had hoped? You have yourself to blame. Try harder. Train more. Learn how to perform better. If a soccer team has a bad game, to much of the blame can be on any of the 11 players on the field at any time.

This post came across as a rambling mess. I very much dislike soccer and think the only true sport is something you don't play.

I tried watching observe and report tonight, but it was very unfocused and not as funny as I hoped it would be. Some of Seth Rogens movies I like, but some of them are not that great. This was one of the not so great ones that I didn't much care for.