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subatai_baadur
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12 Aug 2007, 12:48 pm

I'm so sick of David Beckham. Why is this man newsworthy? He got an obscene contract so he could sit on the bench with his 'sore' ankle(Offensive Linemen Jack Youngblood once played in a conference championship game with a broken leg, yet Beckham can't get off the bench because he's sore?), he gets off the bench for 22 minutes, doesn't score at all, and I have to hear about it non-stop when I'm just looking for some football scores. Soccer is filled with players who constantly dive and cry, and there is not enough scoring. I thought we had accepted that this was the opinion of most Americans and had moved on, the same way that there is little hope that any country other than Germany would appreciate American football, or in the same way that it would do exceptionally little good to introduce curling to Malawi.


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12 Aug 2007, 12:53 pm

Also he's married to Victoria Beckham (the former Posh Spice).

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12 Aug 2007, 12:55 pm

subatai_baadur wrote:
Soccer is filled with players who constantly dive and cry, and there is not enough scoring. I thought we had accepted that this was the opinion of most Americans and had moved on

It's football, not 'soccer.'
And American sports are s**t. Football is brilliant. Go and watch some proper football.



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12 Aug 2007, 1:27 pm

subatai_baadur wrote:
I'm so sick of David Beckham. Why is this man newsworthy? He got an obscene contract so he could sit on the bench with his 'sore' ankle(Offensive Linemen Jack Youngblood once played in a conference championship game with a broken leg, yet Beckham can't get off the bench because he's sore?), he gets off the bench for 22 minutes, doesn't score at all, and I have to hear about it non-stop when I'm just looking for some football scores. Soccer is filled with players who constantly dive and cry, and there is not enough scoring. I thought we had accepted that this was the opinion of most Americans and had moved on, the same way that there is little hope that any country other than Germany would appreciate American football, or in the same way that it would do exceptionally little good to introduce curling to Malawi.


wait, wait [snark] He took off his HOODIE to show his SHAVEN CHEST and THEN put on his team JERSEY!
oh, didn't you see THAT? THAT was worth the whole money exchange, surely? [/snark]



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12 Aug 2007, 1:32 pm

yeah he needs to go back from wherever he came from bevis. soccer sucks


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12 Aug 2007, 1:45 pm

Why are you sick of David Beckham?

He's not a bad guy?


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12 Aug 2007, 1:49 pm

Football is awesome. Beckham was better when he played for Man United.



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12 Aug 2007, 1:51 pm

So, in other words, do any of you think it was not smart of Victoria to move here because she can't watch "Eastenders?"


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12 Aug 2007, 1:53 pm

Baseball sucks. :P



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12 Aug 2007, 1:57 pm

We don't like "Eastenders," we're not all about intellect and we like family-friendly entertainment.


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12 Aug 2007, 2:36 pm

Sopho wrote:
Baseball sucks. :P

Now this I can agree with you on. However, don't you dare speak of real football(not the type where people constantly dive as though they've just been shot) in such a manner. I don't get soccer anyway. Why is it that people can get payed millions of dollars, yet they'll be 20 feet away from the net and somehow manage to shoot it 10 feet over? You're payed millions to hit a massive ass net! A hockey player has a smaller target, and if he misses the net by 5 feet without some sort of deflection, there is an issue.


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12 Aug 2007, 2:42 pm

subatai_baadur wrote:
Sopho wrote:
Baseball sucks. :P

Now this I can agree with you on. However, don't you dare speak of real football(not the type where people constantly dive as though they've just been shot) in such a manner. I don't get soccer anyway. Why is it that people can get payed millions of dollars, yet they'll be 20 feet away from the net and somehow manage to shoot it 10 feet over? You're payed millions to hit a massive ass net! A hockey player has a smaller target, and if he misses the net by 5 feet without some sort of deflection, there is an issue.

"soccer" is REAL football. None of this American s**t.



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12 Aug 2007, 5:04 pm

Sopho wrote:
Baseball sucks. :P
o rly/ :P

american football rules, i guess it just matters to whatever contenent you live on.


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12 Aug 2007, 5:14 pm

Sopho wrote:
subatai_baadur wrote:
Soccer is filled with players who constantly dive and cry, and there is not enough scoring. I thought we had accepted that this was the opinion of most Americans and had moved on

It's football, not 'soccer.'
And American sports are sh**. Football is brilliant. Go and watch some proper football.


America have the best athletes in the world. Are you honestly trying to tell me that soccer players are better athletes than American football players?


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12 Aug 2007, 5:21 pm

You lost the right to claim to be real football when you started insisting on diving constantly every time you were touched. It's enough to make Manu Ginobli blush. Moreover, you can't make the claim that your athletes are better, seeing as we have kickers that can nail field goals from 64 yards(with or without prosthetic feet). Yes, they can actually aim and find the area between the goalposts. If they were ever 10 or 20 feet to the left, they'd be fired.


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12 Aug 2007, 5:25 pm

subatai_baadur wrote:
I'm so sick of David Beckham. Why is this man newsworthy? He got an obscene contract so he could sit on the bench with his 'sore' ankle(Offensive Linemen Jack Youngblood once played in a conference championship game with a broken leg, yet Beckham can't get off the bench because he's sore?), he gets off the bench for 22 minutes, doesn't score at all, and I have to hear about it non-stop when I'm just looking for some football scores. Soccer is filled with players who constantly dive and cry, and there is not enough scoring. I thought we had accepted that this was the opinion of most Americans and had moved on, the same way that there is little hope that any country other than Germany would appreciate American football, or in the same way that it would do exceptionally little good to introduce curling to Malawi.



Well now you know how some of us feel in the u.k. :roll: