Football (Soccer)! Fuck yeah!

I promised myself not to write too much about my favorite sports or sports teams, but I just have to write a bit about one of them now.

I haven't always been the football fan I am now, to be honest, Ice Hockey and Basketball respectively were bigger priorities for me until a few years back. Now though, soccer (for you americans) has become possibly my favorite-spectator sport.

People from the US would probably disagree and counter that their sports are better in this or that way, but the cold hard fact is that english football fans (hooligans aside) are probably the best supporters there are. They sing the whole time the game is being played, they sing before the match, they sing after the match and to me that just shows how passionate they are about the game. Yet they still know all the facts about their team as well, they follow the proceedings intensely, if it's player transfers or whatever, they're vigilant.

American sports fans are different. Now don't get me wrong, there are a billion things I love about america, heck, even I speak english with an american accent, but for sports their passion is a bit different.

First of all American sports fans tend to switch their loyalties easier, I'm not saying that all of them do, but it seems that they start "rooting" for teams based on hardly no good reason. It's like when they live in new york, they love the Yankees, but unless they're not hardcore fans, their loyalties might easily switch if they move to the west coast or florida or something.

I just have to mention this, but I used the word "their" and "they're" often in that last paragraph by the way, why is it that Americans who speak this language as their only language have such big problems with grammar?! Pathetic, it's an insult to english that some kid from Finland has better grammar skills than 95% of Americans.

Back to US sports fans -> Second of all! Americans get so god damn caught up with statistics. "Oh, he's such a good player" says one guy, "naaah, his 'footupyourassandlovingit-procentage' is too low, he can't be good". Man it's annoying. I mean I love stats just as much as the next guy, but gimme a break with em already. Baseball, American Football and Basketball, each has like 30 different stat categories to follow. Ice Hockey has alot too, but not so much. You know why? IT'S A CANADIAN SPORT! If he can score, he can score, if he can shoot he can shoot, if he can pass he can pass. Who care's if this one guy can pass 164545,3456 times a minute while the other can manage only a feeble 164544,396 times a minute, "I mean jeeesh! What a piece of shit!"

Thirdly, most americans can't handle sports where things are not happening every single frame that the TV is producing. This is why they don't understand sooooccer. It's so slow and they only score once or twice a game! Yeah, but there has got to be a reason why it's the most popular sport in almost every other country in the world. And guess what?! It's not because those countries havent tried baseball basketball or american football! It's because it's simple enough for everyone to understand (Ball -> Goal = YAY!), and so alot of people can think of it on the passion side of their brains, not the statistic-orientated chewing-tobacco...chewing side.

Pah!