AFANA Footy BBS

I was flipping through the channels yesterday and came across Fox Sports World showing a soccer game (what else?). One of the players ran into the other team's goal keeper. The POOR BABY collapsed to the ground like he was dead, and the game came to a stop. While he was laying there they showed several replays of the 'collision'. It didn't look half as bad as a typical footy bump, but the POOR BABY soccer player just kept laying there. I guess he was waiting for his mommy to come and kiss it and make it better. I don't know how long he laid there, because I got disgusted and changed the channel.

> I was flipping through the channels yesterday and came across Fox Sports
> World showing a soccer game (what else?). One of the players ran into the
> other team's goal keeper. The POOR BABY collapsed to the ground like he
> was dead, and the game came to a stop. While he was laying there they
> showed several replays of the 'collision'. It didn't look half as bad as a
> typical footy bump, but the POOR BABY soccer player just kept laying
> there. I guess he was waiting for his mommy to come and kiss it and make
> it better. I don't know how long he laid there, because I got disgusted
> and changed the channel.

Good on ya, mate!! Something like that just reinforces my opinion that soccer players are wimps.
Did you happen to see the Grand Final this year? I refer to the incident of Dean Wallis popping his dislocated finger back into place and then playing on.
Had it been a soccer player, the guy probably would have been screaming in agony for a medic!! And be sidelined for a month while he nursed his finger back to health.
Oh, yeah, then there was Swan Daryn Cresswell, several years ago, who did the same to a dislocated kneecap in the middle of the SCG - and played on.

Lisa
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As previously mentioned, I am both a fan of soccer and Australian Football. I think some people miss the point about games like soccer and even Australian Football. If its only a tough physical contest you desire to watch, you would not watch either of these two codes of football. If you want to watch a game of beauty and passion you can watch soccer and if you want to watch a game that combines flow, beauty, exhilleration together with physical contact, you watch Australian Football. I just hope that Americans can share not just the physical aspects of Australian Football but can appreciate so many other aspects of
the the greatest sport on earth that is Australian Football.

> As previously mentioned, I am both a fan of soccer and Australian
> Football. I think some people miss the point about games like soccer....

Even though I don't care for soccer, I normally take a "live and let live" philosophy about other people's sports preferences. However, when Deni Fettet attacks my favorite sport, I have to get back at him/her/it.

> As previously mentioned, I am both a fan of soccer and Australian
> Football. I think some people miss the point about games like soccer and
> even Australian Football. If its only a tough physical contest you desire
> to watch, you would not watch either of these two codes of football. If
> you want to watch a game of beauty and passion you can watch soccer and if
> you want to watch a game that combines flow, beauty, exhilleration
> together with physical contact, you watch Australian Football. I just hope
> that Americans can share not just the physical aspects of Australian
> Football but can appreciate so many other aspects of
> the the greatest sport on earth that is Australian Football.

I think Americans are definitely giving footy another look and try. Just look at how the game has grown here with Americans taking up the sport. There were 16 teams competing at the nationals in LA this year. The first national tournament several years ago had only 4 teams. Quite a differnce. And several Americans walked off with medals at the games this year.

Lisa
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