Soccer is an an alright sport, I'll sit in on and watch maybe half a match if my friends (many of whom are obsessed with soccer and wish they were biscuit-munchers), but I do find it quite boring after watching it for approximately 20 minutes. Goals are pretty cool, but yeah everything in between, including the dives and the lollygagging that a winning team inevitably bust out to waste time on the clock is just insufferable for me. I understand that it's part of the culture of the game but it's just not for me. SHRUG oh well

tbh it pisses me off a little bit when I hear the whole "YA BUT THER WEARING PADS" schtick. Defensive players in the NFL rarely live to see 60 due to the ridiculous trauma their bodies sustain (especially to the head). Check out this article and remember that all this is going down with helmets and pads. Protective gear was introduced because players were either sustaining serious brain injury or just flat out dying on the field. I realize that this interjection is usually blurted out when somebody makes the equally childish claim that soccer is for pansies, but come on now.