<p>I’ve tried to watch it because my husband loves it so (he’s from Spain). But what’s with that infernal droning horn noise in the background of all the games? It’s like a buzzing bee sound constantly in your ear! I have to leave the room when I hear it. :eek:</p>
<p>HORNS…
I hate the noise too but then somehow I block it out after a while. Then again, I’ve only watched about a half hour of soccer all of my life so far…the last half of the US game on Saturday.
Oh…and I like that you can actually see the guys. No ugly helmets or pads…:)</p>
<p>How can anyone sit through a sport that in all probability is going to end in a tie? I do now know why there is so much soccer hooliganism. The fans beat each other up just to keep things interesting.</p>
<p>Patsmom, there is talk of banning air horns at soccer games, but I don’t think it will happen. I hate the sound as well, although I have gotten somewhat used to it.</p>
<p>Soccer, like baseball, is a game that is much more fun to watch if you understand the strategy involved than as a casual observer. I find watching baseball games to be tedious but I enjoy soccer, after years of watching my son play and after seeing professional soccer games in the US and Europe. </p>
<p>I had the privilege of going to a World Cup game in 2006 and had a blast, even though I didn’t have a particular interest in who won. The energy in the city and the stadium was incredible.</p>
<p>I hate all sports. Can’t stand to watch or discuss any of them, including the Olympics, with the possible exception of figure skating, which many don’t consider to be a sport.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my foreign husband adores soccer and can’t understand how Americans watch boring sports like football and baseball.</p>
<p>In my work group, we have a Brazilian, a Brit, two Mexicans, an avid soccer player (who plays on the company team with my husband), and a guy who’s never here… and then, me. There’s really no way I can avoid hearing about it constantly.</p>
<p>(And if the Houston Dynamo stadium ever gets off the ground, I’ve been informed that our work group is going to have first dibs on designing it, so then I’ll NEVER escape soccer…)</p>
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<p>Somehow, I doubt if Plainsman is a native American.</p>
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<p>If a team goes up 2-0 in the first half, the game is over, that’s why. There is absolutely no reason to watch the second half because the team ahead simply plays lock-down defense, taking no risks about further scoring. The game is over. Catching up is practically unheard of in pro soccer. </p>
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<p>LOL! Funniest comment I’ve read in a long time on this site. </p>
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<p>That’s why I deliberately used a small “n” instead of a capital.</p>
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<p>Are you kidding me? BASEBALL is your idea of excitement? Baseball is as slow as molasses. It’s one notch above watching golf and curling for action and excitement, and worse really because of all the records broken by steroid freaks.</p>
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<p>It seems to matter to a lot of people. Why else would the media predict, about every five years or so, that soccer will become the rage in the U.S. that it is elsewhere in the world? And every five years they are wrong. Obviously, it must matter to a lot of people what the “Big Dawg” thinks about soccer.</p>
<p>I really do think it’s catching on. Just not as quickly as predicted. FIFA online games have helped. My son, who is 22, and didn’t play soccer in school, has LOTS of friends who love it. I have none (no need to divulge my age) 
And hey, they probably think: “finally, a sport that doesn’t appeal to geezers”.</p>
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<p>A bit like a >2 TD lead in football… hmm</p>
<p>I asked my 17 year old who first said he didn’t care about the World Cup and then about two minutes later expressed his disgust that Japan had beaten Cameroon. It turns out many of his friends are watching and have opinions. He also admitted that if we turned the game on, he would certainly watch and enjoy watching. We used to go watch our local professional soccer team.</p>
<p>I love the World Cup and have watched most of the games so far this week.</p>
<p>Germany beating Australia 4-0 did veer from most of the wins so far in terms of scoring. </p>
<p>I have watched hundreds of soccer games, since both of my kids played club soccer as well as school soccer. Therefore I can appreciate the skill required as well as the speed of these World Cup athletes. I really enjoy watching these great teams play.</p>
<p>"JOHANNESBURG — The loud trumpets called vuvuzelas will continue to be allowed for the time being at the World Cup, despite complaints from some international broadcasters, players and fans, the tournament’s organizing committee said Monday.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Danny Jordaan, the chief World Cup organizer, told the British Broadcasting Corporation that use of the trumpets was “something we are evaluating on an ongoing basis.” He said he would consider banning the horns “if there are grounds to do so.”</p>
<p>Some broadcasters have been complaining since last June’s Confederations Cup here that the vuvuzelas are too disruptive to the international television feeds, subduing announcers’ voices and irritating viewers. "</p>
<p>[World</a> Cup?s Incessant Drone Will Stay for Now - NYTimes.com](<a href=“World Cup’s Incessant Drone Will Stay for Now - The New York Times”>World Cup’s Incessant Drone Will Stay for Now - The New York Times)</p>
<p>I coached youth soccer for many years, but unless my kids are playing, I do not find it very exciting. “The beautiful game” is a misnomer–a reference to the great teams of Brazil which played a far more interesting style than Brazil or anyone else plays now. </p>
<p>Because soccer is so low scoring–and a huge percentage of goals are scored off free kicks and penalty kicks awarded because of fouls–players constantly fake being fouled, which is boring and annoying, not beautiful. It is also not beautiful watching a team play a purely defensive game to win 1-0.</p>
<p>I am not a big fan of baseball, but find basketball far more of a beautiful game than soccer. Although hockey is hard to follow on tv, it is far more exciting than soccer, where the ball spends too much time being kicked backwards, sideways or out of bounds. I wish football had shorter pauses between plays, but still prefer it to soccer. NASCAR, with its endless driving in a circle, is lost on me.</p>
<p>I do appreciate that soccer players can succeed while being under 6 feet tall.</p>
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<p>I do have to admit I agree with this. I’m getting really sick of seeing all of these grown men falling down and grabbing their shins every five minutes. Enough already.</p>
<p>Touchdowns count for 6 points. Make them earn the 6 points by having to score inside the goalposts or it doesn’t count. I’m not thrilled with the extra point either since it’s almost automatic now. </p>
<p>If high scoring is what you like, then every goal in soccer should count for six points, and a penalty kick after the goal counts for another point. Earn three more points for every time you kick it over the net and inside it’s two posts (that’s all a field goal really is). Make a touchdown in football count as only one point. Pretty soon scores would be Galaxy 27, Red Bulls 20…Rams 2 Cowboys 1. </p>
<p>I love how commercials are aired before soccer matches, at halftime, and then after the game is over. You don’t get two dozen commercials in the final two minutes of a World Cup match like you do with the NBA Finals.</p>
<p>My H sat down on the sofa yesterday afternoon and said, “I’m really tired, I think I’ll put the World Cup on so I can take a nap.”</p>
<p>^Spoken like a true American…LOL!</p>
<p>Fifa.com has a video recap of each of the games, showing the goals and near goals, and then playing them back in slow motion again and again. And still the video recap lasts only 2 minutes. So plenty of time to catch up on your ZZZs during the rest of the game.</p>
<p>I haven’t read all the posts, but I just don’t see how professional soccer is boring and baseball and football aren’t. OMG…</p>
<p>Watching soccer is about watching the players maneuver the ball, watching them make decisions about what to do, watching how each decision leads to another. None of this “playbook” stuff. Football minutes take FOREVER. </p>
<p>I lke basketball though.</p>
<p>The MLS keeps adding franchises… I don’t know of any of the other professional leagues that are expanding.</p>