Soccer ladies, Kicked us out of the game Options

[Nine_14]

Congratulations to the US Team.....

Hope they get the World Championship Bowl. Great Team, Great Match, Great Fight.

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[Perry Kiehl Clone]

Great game! I get a chuckle out of the soccer haters. There's non stop action, no time outs, and the game officials aren't involved in every single play of the game. Argue with the Referee too much, you get sent off and your team plays a man down. The "American Pastime" is boring to me, as well as teaching our youth to bad mouth authority, but I'm not going to bag on it.

[Tom_T]

The "American Pastime" is boring to me, as well as teaching our youth to bad mouth authority, but I'm not going to bag on it.

Then Perry Clone, try the "other UK Football" - Rugby Football - in it's various flavors: Union (15 a side), League (11 a side) or Sevens (7 a side - going to Olympics where the USA is the 2x defending Gold Medalists in 15s from 1920 & 24)!

It's as much a contact a sport as our Football, but as non-stop as Soccer, & you mouth off to a Ref & you're off (the Soccer Refs put up with too much crap), & requires smarter players who can play offense & defense immediately & continuously!

Good Sportsmanship is expected & demanded in Rugby, & in college & club play it is the tradition for the home team to host the visitors at the Pub for food & beer & camaraderie & a bawdy songfest at "the 3rd half" - rather than going off on a destruction binge like soccer hooligans, or going off hating the opponents until next game/year in American Football.

As the Brits say/said: Soccer/Football is a gentlemen's game played by hooligans, but Rugby is a hooligans game played by Gentlemen!!

I played all 3 sports over he years since youth, but much prefer the Rugby over Soccer & Football, although I do like to watch them too for key games of my alma maters & hometown teams.

The Rugby World Cup is the 3rd most watched event worldwide - behind the men's soccer Football World Cup & the Olympics - & the RFC is coming up this Sept./Oct. from jolly ole England, with the USA ranked 12th - but at least we're now ranked above & beat the Canadians .... finally! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Give it a watch too, you might like it once you get how it's played (the announcers & teams do some good explanations during breaks). It will be on NBC & their cable/satellite NBC sports network.

The Soccer Gals did great! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)
... they had a big LA area celebration for them yesterday! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drunk.gif)

Tom
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