Pele' and the Brazilians will be hard to beat. That dude is good.

I’ve watched maybe 5 minutes of soccer my entire life. I don’t understand the hype

I started to watch a soccer match last night, but instead decided to watch a quilting bee that was on.

Another classic one liner from Dustin.

World Cup soccer is for those places in the world that don't have College Football.

You're right....let's watch college football instead of the WC. Out of curiosity, which college football games are taking place over the next 4 weeks?

#DumbPostIsDumb

I believe he’s referring to the fact that soccer is like watching paint dry compared to sports with more action. I realize it’s the most popular sport in the world for various reasons, but Good Lord it’s boring to watch.

There is ONE reason it's the most popular sport in the world....because it takes little to no money to play it. You need a ball, and a field. That's about it. No special weather required, either. Poor countries eat that crap up because they can't afford anything else.

The CFL season just started, so there's that....

Cornhole Championship is on ESPN now

I started to watch it, but opted to just spray pepper spray in my eyeballs instead.

Soccer, or futbol outside of America, is not just for poor people although yes, it's easy for poor kids anywhere to play because they just need a ball and open space.

Sorta like how poor kids played stickball back in the day with a broom handle and bottle caps, or a busted ball with tape. It's all relative to the times and locations.

As for all those "poor" countries, soccer is their national sport. Portgual vs. Spain isn't just a match, it's their SuperBowl-Daytona500-WorldSeries-BCSwithBama Championship times a brazillion. Brazil v. Argentina, England v. Germany. The African and MidEast countries have their issues but thrive on sports as a national source of pride, be it soccer, cricket or whatever.

The reason it's the most popular sport in the world is because more people in the world play it - in part thanks to the low expense to get started - than any other sport.

I don't understand the rules, didn't play, our kids didn't play and I don't get it. But I understand passion and intensity and national pride, and that's fun to watch.

Ya'll have mentioned Cricket, I've tried to watch it a time or two and the rules dang sure didn't make sense to me. I know there has to be a lot more to it than what I saw.

Try explaining American football rules to someone who is unfamiliar. Talk about complicated...

I've been working for years in places that football/soccer is pretty much ALL thats available. I really tried to get into it but just never could. If you enjoy it, knock yourself out. I'd rather watch reruns of the SEC spring games or better yet the CWS.

The list of things I would rather do than watch soccer is too lengthy to list here. It starts with rearranging my sock drawer...

I can't imagine watching spring football games. I'd rather gouge out my eyes with butter knives.

Which is what's great about sports and today's opportunities on TV and the web. We can all watch our stuff.

passion. that's the key word here. y'all bloody well understand the passion of the iron bowl, auburn/georgia, alabama/lsu. that's the way is with national and international futbol. if you don't want to take the time to understand what you're seeing, fine and dandy. for those who have made the effort to understand the rules, and appreciate the skill involved, it is great entertainment.
ronaldo makes something like $121 million a year. one can understand why, after watching his performance friday night. that's futbol.
messi is paid $90 million plus. he had 10 shots on goal saturday morning, and couldn't buy one with his millions and trememdous skills. it just was not his match. that's futbol.

it's entertainment, y'all, sporting entertainment. basketball is paint drying to me, as is baseball. i played both. playing is 50 tons more fun than watching either one.
college football: it is still my second favorite, near about equal with world class futbol.
another thing about futbol: match is over in two hours, period. might go 15 minutes long with a shootout, but that's it. no commercials. no times-out. nothing but action, accept for 15-minute half-time ...

I had rather watch grass grow but my time I’ve spent in Germany and surrounding areas there it’s what they know and like just like our football to them. The ones I spend time with from Germany really like our football but when there is big soccer event they have big parties and act like it’s Armageddon while I just shake my head like what the heck this is soo boring. I know there is skill involved but it seems to be so low scoring that I lose interest after about 5 min.