The 12 Days of Christmas, Canucks style
by nucksandpucks on Dec 15, 2009 12:51 PM PST
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'Tis the season, as they say. To which I say "Thanks Captain Obvious. The season runs from October until at least April, so of course 'tis the season." Anyway, in the spirit of "the season," please enjoy a Canucks rendition of the classic song The 12 Days of Christmas.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
An all-star starting goalie.
On the second day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the third day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the fourth day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Four wins for Raycroft,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the fifth day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Five Olympic Rings,
Four wins for Raycroft,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the sixth day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Six defensemen a-hitting,
Five Olympic Rings,
Four wins for Raycroft,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the seventh day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Seven 7th Man banners (um... what a dud gift MG, thanks a lot),
Six defensemen a-hitting,
Five Olympic Rings,
Four wins for Raycroft,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the eighth day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Eight Rypiens a-rippin',
Seven 7th Man banners,
Six defensemen a-hitting,
Five Olympic Rings,
Four wins for Raycroft,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the ninth day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Nine Orcas a-leaping,
Eight Rypiens a-rippin',
Seven 7th Man banners,
Six defensemen a-hitting,
Five Olympic Rings,
Four wins for Raycroft,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the tenth day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Ten Keslords a-grinding,
Nine Orcas a-leaping,
Eight Rypiens a-rippin',
Seven 7th Man banners,
Six defensemen a-hitting,
Five Olympic Rings,
Four wins for Raycroft,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the eleventh day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Eleven (separate) injuries for Salo,
Ten Keslords a-grinding,
Nine Orcas a-leaping,
Eight Rypiens a-rippin',
Seven 7th Man banners,,
Six defensemen a-hitting,
Five Olympic Rings,
Four wins for Raycroft,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
On the twelfth day of Christmas Mike Gillis gave to me,
Twelve forwards a-scoring,
Eleven (separate) injuries for Salo,
Ten Keslords a-grinding,
Nine Orcas a-leaping,
Eight Rypper's a-rippin',
Seven 7th Man banners,
Six defensemen a-hitting,
Five Olympic Rings,
Four wins for Raycroft,
Three goals for Mitchell,
Two Swedish twins,
And an all-star starting goalie.
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Technical note
Yes, I am aware that it was Nonis, not Gillis, who actually acquired Luongo. I took a little artistic license there, being as it worked for syntax and rhyming.
Manchester United supporters, like me, sing 12 Days of Cantona song. It’s the same except everything is Cantona.
I wish there was more singing, chanting, etc. in NHL hockey. Hockey chants are so mundane.
by nucksandpucks on Dec 15, 2009 1:11 PM PST up reply actions
Though I prefer this one myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7xvegPH_Lw&feature=related
Sorry 312. Least we got the Canucks to agree on, right
by nucksandpucks on Dec 15, 2009 1:14 PM PST up reply actions
Yes we can agree on the Canucks. I am sure deep down we can also agree that your lot stole that song from Celtic supporters who sang it first. :)
The shitty part is I dislike Liverpool so much that I can’t listen to that song anymore. Ruined it for me.
And we can agree that Man United are the Yankees, AKA the Evil Empire, of football!
Haha, I’ve only been following Liverpool for a couple years now (got into Premier/Champions League soccer when I spent 3 months living in Tanzania) so I don’t have that deep down hatred built up yet. Give it a few more years and I’ll hopefully be right there hating on MU, Chelsea and the lot.
by nucksandpucks on Dec 15, 2009 1:32 PM PST up reply actions
I think my favourite all time is “Giggs will tear you apart” to the tune of “Love Will Tear You Apart” by the great Manchester Band Joy Division.
But right now I am loving the one about Owen Hargreaves. “Oh Owen Hargreaves”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuG0mJC2k4Y
We need to write some for Canucks fans to sing when they go to games.
“Oh Daniel Sedin, you are the love of my life
Oh Daniel Sedin, I’d let you f*ck my wife
Oh Daniel Sedin
I want a ginger twin too”
Hahaha! Somehow I don’t think they’d let the GM Place folks swear like English football fans!
by nucksandpucks on Dec 15, 2009 1:29 PM PST up reply actions
Section…as a fellow Red Devil supporter, I have to agree that Liverpool song is kind of silly.
As for the hatred…we can all agree that Chelsea and Arsenal are SHITE!
Just once in my life, I have to get over there and attend a match at Old Trafford…
The earliest use of the word with the spelling we recognize today is found in "L'Acadie: or Seven Years' Exploration in British America" by James Edward Alexander, published in 1849:
We also met a lusty fellow in a forest road with a keg of whisky slung round him who called to us 'Come boys and have some grog, I'm what you call a canuck"
I actually don’t dislike Chelsea that much. I mean they have only won the league 3 times so they aren’t really much of a threat to us in terms of being the most winningest team in English history. And we are close to being that if you count League Cups, FA Cups, League Championships and European Trophies. Plus I would include the world Club Championship. Arsenal I like the way they play at times but hate Wenger. Liverpool and City are the two teams I loathe the most.
One of the great moments of my life happened back in 2003 I think it was when I had a University class with a Pool supporter who was talking all kinds of trash leading up to the big game between us and them. We won 4-0 I believe it was and the guy never came to class again. Our team forced a guy to drop out of a class after the cutoff to be re-reimbursed. What a great moment. I hope that guy is homeless now.
Oh and of course you have to go to Old Trafford. I was there in 2001 when we beat Coventry City 4-2 with two goals from Dwight Yorke, a beauty header from my favourite, and the all time greatest player ever, Ryan Giggs and Scholes rounded out the scoring. We won the title later that day when Arsenal lost. What a great time to be in Manchester.
by Section 312 on Dec 16, 2009 10:32 AM PST up reply actions
Ohhhhhh…Y man…its the most popular sport in the world. Everyone is entitled to their opinion though…
It is gayer than …hockey…rugby…etc.
Still an enjoyable sport to watch though…
BTW Section…I share your disdain for the arrogant Frenchman that runs the Gunners.
The earliest use of the word with the spelling we recognize today is found in "L'Acadie: or Seven Years' Exploration in British America" by James Edward Alexander, published in 1849:
We also met a lusty fellow in a forest road with a keg of whisky slung round him who called to us 'Come boys and have some grog, I'm what you call a canuck"
heh
actually I used to love playing when I was a kid, but watching it is painful, and then there’s all the flopping around like they’ve been bayonetted every time someone touches them, just can’t handle it as a spectator sport.
You must hate watching Burrows then if you hate floppers. Just saying.
I get that some people don’t get soccer but to me it is by far the most enjoyable sport to watch. First of all, it is continuous halves. Once the first half starts you watch them play until the half is over. No stopping every other play to show me a beer commercial. It allows you to fully immerse yourself in the game. The other thing is the passion. Maybe it has to be passed on from your father or something but when someone tells me they are a Liverpool supporter my blood starts to boil. I mean it is borderline actual hate. I want Manchester United to win so bad that when they lose on a Saturday morning I go back to bed and don’t come out until dinner time. The other thing I love about it is the fact that the league winner is decided based on points. There are no playoffs. So EVERY league game has so much importance. Every draw or loss puts you one step closer to not winning the title. So you feel each of those losses even more.
Plus the amount of skill it takes to do what they do, with their feet, is incredible. And they run like 12 kms during a game. The diving sucks which is why some of the smaller leagues, like the Dutch and Scottish leagues are so enjoyable. But when my team needs a goal and Rooney goes down in the box, dive or no dive, I am screaming at the TV for the ref to give the penalty.
by Section 312 on Dec 17, 2009 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
E very few years I try to watch soccer. Every time I give up for the same reason: it’s all decided by the refs.
They decide it on either offside calls (horridly nebulous) or on the penalty kicks they award (also horridly nebulous). The diving follows from that. To me, it’s become the quintessential shmoo sport; just shut up and let the authorities decide the outcome.
It’s a shame, cuz the game itself and the players are all quite good. Played it a little as a kid, too, lotta fun.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
Seems a pretty simplistic viewpoint from someone like you casual. You could argue that with all of the holding and hooking calls and the inconsistency of the way the NHL game is called that the refs play a large role in who wins and who loses in hockey too. But we know that isn’t the case. Good teams win and bad teams win.
I watch 4 or 5 matches every weekend and have done since I was about 18 and sportsnet started showing footy on Saturday’s and I will say that the offside gets called correctly about 98 percent of the time. And the standard of reffing at times can be a little sub par but for the most part they get decisions correct.
Earlier this year Manchester United played our closest geographical rival Manchester City. We won it in the 6th minute of added time and there was huge controversy. But BBC went back and broke down the time added on based on the rules of the game and found the ref was within 1 second of timing it perfectly. There are bad games and boring games and games where the ref screws up. But there are also 8 goal thrillers and amazing coming from behind late game heroics that are unrivaled in other sports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g90i2tlUip4&feature=related
They have a channel on satellite where you can watch the game with fans doing the commentary. This is what the passion is all about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0VhD1YDNSM&feature=related
Listen to that crowd and look at them celebrate. Wish fans at GM Place were that loud.
The offside calls are usually tight calls, so you can’t really say the ref was right or was wrong, but by letting one pass go and whistling down another, he can easily decide the game and often does. And in soccer, goals don’t come as easily as in hockey, so it matters even more.
Moreover, a penalty shot in soccer is almost an automatic score, esp as compared to a PK in hockey where maybe 1 in 5 results in a score. So in hockey, a ref’s call, even a bad one, can be dealt with by a good PK , and there are enough penalties in a game for them to even out. In soccer, a lone penalty kick call often decides the game.
They’d have a better chance of winning me over as a fan if they could “fix up” the offside rule (yeah, like that’s gonna happen!), and maybe move the penalty kicker a little further out, somewhere where his odds of scoring are at least down to 50% and preferably more like 25.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
Now you are showing your ignorance. The whole point of a penalty is to be just that a penalty. They are supposed to score. The goal keeper has a shot to stop the ball but not much of a shot. That’s the point. The reason being that if you foul someone in the penalty box you are taking away a scoring chance. Wouldn’t it be nice in the NHL that when a clear cut scoring chance is illegally taken away that the team had a better chance to score? You shouldn’t be allowed to violate the rules to take away a good chance to score and get away with it roughly 80% of the time. Should you? Plus there are very few penalties called in any given season. For instance, in 2007-2008 Everton Football Club we awarded 1 penalty in 38 matches. The better teams get more penalties but that is because they are attacking more often and have possession in the box more often. Penalties can decide a game but VERY rarely do decide a game and even more rarely does a bad decision to give a penalty decide a game.
The offside rule can be a little bit confusing at times and applied inconsistently at times as well but in my experience of watching games they get it right most of the time. There are mistakes made but considering the fact that the offside rule in hockey has a line painted on the ice to make it easy and they still get it wrong occasionally you have to understand that a much more fluid, necessarily so for the sport, off side rule will be called incorrectly from time to time. It’s like the strike zone in baseball. You have to adjust sometimes to a different strike zone, or linesman in the case of soccer, but for the most part they are remarkably consistent.
And to be honest I don’t think the most popular sport in the world, by a wide wide margin, needs to change any rules to pander to North American sports fans who are for the most part less passionate and knowledgeable than sports fans in other parts of the world. And I say this as a North American sports fan. I mean other than the NHL, NFL, NBA, Nascar and MLB can you tell me much about any other sport?
The penalty kicks I see awarded do not replace a “sure goal” scoring chance and thereby right the universe; they award an almost-sure goal on a borderline infraction that may or may not have needed to have been called, that just as often is not called, and that, in most cases, was on a play that was no more dangerous than most.
No, I don’t expect the game to chg its offside rule for me, which is kinda why I said “yeah, like that’s gonna happen!” in the first place.
As for other sports, yes, I am knowledgeable in some others, such as the individual sports (boxing, tennis, golf etc). But other than to justify an ad hominem I don’t see why you’d bring that up?
p.s. you do know what a “shmoo” is, don’t you? L’il Abner? Did you not know the reference and that’s why you popped off so hard?
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
I didn’t pop off hard. I pointed out that you are criticizing a sport for it’s rules and you don’t really know what you are talking about. You clearly watched 5 or 6 games and 3 or 4 of them had a bad call in it and then you figured that’s the whole sport and how it works. The penalty kick doesn’t fix a sure goal situation and I didn’t say it does. I said it is a PENALTY, in other words it penalizes the team, for stopping a goal scoring chance. It is there so that defenders don’t take liberties with forwards who are trying to score. That’s why you see a lot of great tackles in the box because defenders concentrate and know they have to defend perfectly to avoid a penalty.
I brought up the part about not changing the rules to pander to North American sports fans for the same reason you and I would lose our rag if an American came on here telling us hockey would be better with a glowing puck, or smaller nets and no goalie. It’s annoying to have people think that the most popular sport in the world needs “fixing”. That’s why I got, and am still, angry.
You say things like “a lone penalty kick often decides the game” yet admit that you haven’t watched a lot of games. So where does this info come from? I have watched over 700 football games in my life and only rarely do I remember a penalty deciding a game.
I didn’t say soccer should change. I said “here’s what it would take to get me to watch.” And I fully acknowledged that that wasn’t gonna happen.
Look, if I don’t fall in love w/soccer – based on direct firsthand viewing, whether you consider it representative or not – then that’s that way it is. If an American (or a Chilean or Nigerian or whomever) came along and said “I don’t watch hockey because I don’t like ice” that’s no skin off my nose. He has his opinion, fairly stated, and I have mine.
You from a small family?
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
I am from a small family. Got me figured out now?
I would rather you say I watched soccer and don’t like it so I don’t watch it. I would be OK with that, no skin off my nose.
How would you feel if a Norwegian told you he would watch hockey if they got rid of the lines on the ice, had a ball instead of a puck and awarded 5 points for kicking the ball onto the roof of the net?
I wouldn’t mind if you said you watched soccer and don’t like it. But why feel the need to tell me what’s wrong with the game and what it would take to get you to watch it? Football is my favourite thing in the entire world and the thing I am the most passionate about other than my career. So I take it a little personally when people tell me what’s wrong with it. I have been watching hockey for 20 years and have seen thousands of games but still wouldn’t feel like I would be in a good position to suggest rule changes. So why would you offer suggestions for changing football? Like I said if you don’t like it fine don’t watch it and even tell me you don’t like it. But don’t tell me why it sucks and what is wrong with people who like it.
Got me figured out now?
No, just curious. I’m from a large family and to express a simple opinion – or hear one expressed by another person – is less likely to bother a large-family critter as it might a small-family one.
It’s neither right nor wrong, just an observation and my purpose in asking is to learn why you took such offense (believe me, none was being offered) so that I won’t cause a repeat in the future when we talk.
In the case of hockey, for example, if a non-hockey person came along, watched a few games, then said something like, “I’d prefer this game more if they made the goalie pads narrower,” I might agree or disagree but I wouldn’t be offended. I guess my own hot buttons are different from yours; takes all kinds of people to make the world go round.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
In the case of hockey, for example, if a non-hockey person came along, watched a few games, then said something like, "I’d prefer this game more if they made the goalie pads narrower," I might agree or disagree but I wouldn’t be offended. I guess my own hot buttons are different from yours; takes all kinds of people to make the world go round.
That would be a very minor tweak to the game of hockey. What you suggested was a massive redesign of the entire game. It’s a little different. Look I don’t like American Football so I just don’t watch and there is really nothing that they could do to change that sport t make me interested. I would never tell an NFL fan what the sport needs to “fix it” whether for just my benefit or not.
I got so offended because Football is by far my favourite sport and I get tired of hearing how shitty it is. I get it a lot from a lot of different places in this country and I get tired of it. If people don’t like it no big deal. Don’t watch it. But why do people feel the need to tell everyone who likes soccer how shitty it is? I mean I am not religious but I don’t go into churches on Sunday’s and tell them all how stupid I think they are. I just don’t get it. I am not saying that is what you did but you are just one of a number of people who slag off soccer and don’t really know what they are talking about.
Diving is a problem in some leagues and is worse in some parts of the world than others. There are problems with every sport. I mean there are problems with some of the rules in the NHL and you would get annoyed if some Italian or Brazilian told you about them ALL the time.
Come on
you can’t compare the two, Burr takes the odd dive but he doesn’t writhe around on the ice like he’s dying for 15-30 seconds and then jump up and sprint down the field like a gazelle the way soccer players do constantly, it’s embarrassing to watch that shit.
A dive is a dive. If it’s embarrassing when it happens in Football it should be embarrassing when it happens in hockey. Especially with the rather neanderthalian outlook that most hockey players and fans have about the mythical “toughness.”
Yes
a dive is a dive, but a dive and subsequent flailing around in fake agony for half a minute and then proceeding to jump back into the game at 100% is not just a dive.
Hockey players do it all the time too. I watched a guy do it this weekend. We thought he was hurt, talked to him after the game and he said he was fine but wanted to draw a penalty cause he got elbowed. Just cause an NHL guy stays down for a while, then comes out on his next shift doesn’t mean he is tough it just means most of the time he was faking it. But soccer players don’t make line changes so it’s harder for them to disguise it.
Arrogant. Exactly right. Plus he never sees when one of his players gets a red card or dives. He NEVER sees those incidents. But if Rooney looks at a gooner funny Wenger is all over it. He has gotten a little better lately and his teams play beautiful football but as a person I find him loathsome.
by Section 312 on Dec 17, 2009 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
Total sham
of a sport, usually decided by penalty kicks, field is way too big, way too many players therefore becomes about as exciting as a game of checkers, make the field half the size, half as many players, half the net size, and call diving a penalty and you might have something. That sport is popular mainly because everybody in the world plays it as a kid so they can relate to it, but as pure entertainment, it really isn’t at all.
Watch Manchester United versus Manchester City from earlier this season. If you don’t like that match then fair play. But if you do then realize that a lot of the time us soccer fans, though we love watching every game, we do watch for those 5 or 6 times a season games that really are near perfection. I think it’s similar in hockey. We watch the Canucks for the occasional 8-1 or the occasional 4-3 where it was end to end and the Canucks scored a late winner to break Flames’ hearts.
Huh?
I watch hockey because it is by far the greatest sport on earth, fastest, requiring the most skill, constant flow, rough, finesse, action, physicality, the odd scrap, comparing hockey to soccer is like comparing; grilled MSS season tenderloin , sauteed mushrooms and onions, crab legs with garlic butter, baked potato with butter, sour cream, chives, and bacon, and caesar salad washed down with an ice-cold Newcastle Brown Ale and then chocolate-banana-nut ice cream and Tarrazu coffee for dessert…
to a stale cracker.
You watch hockey for the best games. The ones that are fast, physical, rough, constant flow etc etc etc. But those games that really are the best of what hockey has to offer don’t happen every time. In fact the are pretty rare depending on the team you follow. Every sport is like that. There are great examples of how wonderful the sport is and some games are really bad examples of what the sport is about. We sit through the bad ones because you never know when the next great one will be. I would take soccer over anything else in this world. If I was on an deserted island all I would want would be a TV and every Manchester United game I could watch. That would be heaven.
Different strokes for different folks and as I have said I have no problem with people not liking soccer I get that you just don’t get it. Like I don’t get why anyone would like NASCAR or the NFL but I would never criticize those sports or try to suggest changes so that I would like them. That’s disrespectful, ignorant and childish.
by Section 312 on Dec 22, 2009 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
Now you
need to be insulting (don’t try and tell me saying I’m being ignorant and childish isn’t insulting) because I don’t like soccer and have valid reasons for it?
I don’t get why anyone would like NASCAR or the NFL
That’s not criticizing the sport???
You are the one being ignorant, childish and disrespectful.
And don’t tell me why I watch hockey, the very best soccer game ever would have a hard time matching the entertainment value of the worst hockey game ever, and that is for the very simple reason that:
Soccer is gay, that is all, carry on.
Ignorant isn’t an insult. And if you take it that way it’s your problem.
You are using the word “gay” in a disparaging way. That is childish. I stopped doing that in elementary school. Have some respect. If you don’t like being called childish and ignorant don’t say things like “soccer is gay” because that is exactly what you are doing.
Once again yoata because you only read what you want to read I will say again. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE NOT LIKING SOCCER. AND I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE WHO SAY SO.
Different strokes for different folks and as I have said I have no problem with people not liking soccer I get that you just don’t get it. Like I don’t get why anyone would like NASCAR or the NFL but I would never criticize those sports or try to suggest changes so that I would like them. That’s disrespectful, ignorant and childish.
I don’t get why anyone likes those sports but I wasn’t criticizing them. Just stating that I don’t get them or why people like them. So I don’t watch them and I try not to comment about them. Criticizing is obviously a word you don’t understand.
Crizitizing:
1. To find fault with:
2. To judge the merits and faults of; analyze and evaluate.
Please explain how saying I don’t get a sport is a criticism? I didn’t find any faults with the sports (NASCAR and NFL) since I don’t get the sports I don’t have any idea what the faults are. If anything I was pointing out a fault in myself in that I don’t get those sports.
And please yoata don’t generalize about the sport. If you don’t like it fine. But don’t try to justify why with vague generalizations that aren’t backed up by fact. You are smarter than that. I watch a tonne of soccer and very rarely is a game truly decided by a penalty. Penalties aren’t even that common. There aren’t enough of them to decide a game more than a couple times a season let alone usually. And when they are called right they can change a game but not in a bad way which I assume is what you were implying. If I am wrong on that I am sorry. Changes games yes, just like a call in hockey can change a game, but decides? Nope. Just like as you have said many times in the past reffing doesn’t decide games in the NHL. I would say out of 380 games a year in the English Premier League a bad decision on a penalty “decides” a game maybe 3 or 4 times if not less. A correctly called penalty deciding a game is OK because that’s the rules.
Half the players, half the field size, half the net size? We have that on ice. Do we need it on grass too?
So
what you are saying is that you can have your opinion about soccer and state it here, but others can’t state the opposite?
Sorry but there is nothing factual about your opinion either.
Often games are decided by penalty kicks, whether because of a penalty or just because NOBODY HAS SCORED FOR 90+ minutes!!! (yeah thrilling).
It’s much more of a social event than it is an entertaining sport, take out all the overhyped hysteria and hooliganism and you have an extremely tedious sport to watch, little flow, ball constantly going out of bounds, rare actual attacks on net, tons of standing around, BORING!
Then you add in all the bad acting and as I said before, soccer is gay.
That is all.
Carry on.
soccer is gay.
Nice work. You really are ignorant aren’t you?
I already said I have no problem with people not liking soccer and I have no problem with you saying you don’t like soccer. But I have a problem with you justifying it by using made up reasons. You just made shit up about soccer after watching a couple games and not liking it. The players run on average 10-12 kms in 90 minutes. So yeah, there must be LOTS of standing around. Come on. You watch an EPL game and most of the time it is end to end attacking football. Just cause they aren’t scoring every time they attack doesn’t mean they aren’t attacking. I don’t criticize sports that I don’t know much about other than to say they don’t appeal to me and you shouldn’t either.
by Section 312 on Dec 22, 2009 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
How
the fuck would you know how many soccer games I’ve (attempted to) watch?
Don’t tell me what or how I should criticize, you are taking others opinions on this far too seriously.
There is tons of standing/milling around in the average soccer game.
I repeat, soccer is gay, that is all, carry on.
You are crititicizing a sport you don’t understand or don’t get. I already said many times, like the above comment
I already said I have no problem with people not liking soccer and I have no problem with you saying you don’t like soccer. But I have a problem with you justifying it by using made up reasons. You just made shit up about soccer after watching a couple games and not liking it.that I don’t care if people don’t like soccer. I have a problem with people criticizing the game and trying to make suggestions on how to “fix” or “change” the sport to make it better. I don’t really care how many games you have watched you don’t get the sport or you don’t understand it which is fine as I have said numerous times on this thread. That is fine.
I don’t like certain sports so I don’t watch them and I try not to talk about them and I would never criticize or make suggestions on how to change the game just to suit me.
I get it just fine
Don’t tell me what I get and what I don’t just because I disagree with you about soccer, that’s just ignorant, childish, and disrespectful, not to mention arrogant and assuming.
Mostly I get that it is boring as watching grass grow.
But also I get that it is gay.
I’m sorry you don’t understand that or don’t get it, but that’s not my fault.
Stop using “gay” as a disparaging term please. It’s ignorant, offensive and disrespectful.
You don’t get the sport. Your comments show that. Write one thing that is reasonable and well thought out and based on facts about soccer and I will concede that you get it.
LOL
BS you will.
I’ve told you plenty:
Slow
Field too big
Too many players
Too defensive
Boring
Oh and here’s a couple more:
Put up some boards around the field, just 3-4 feet would be plenty to keep the ball from going out of bounds 150 times a game, that would increase the entertainment factor by about 10000% by itself.
Plus think of all those bodychecks and guys flying over the boards.
Now there’s a sport!
Except most of the players are just too gay.and would probably whine about hangnails and such…
In the English Premiere League so far this season they are scoring an average of 3 goals per game. There has been an average of 1 penalty awarded every 3rd game.
I have no idea how many of those penalties have decided a game. How many times has a bad decision to award a penalty decided a game? Probably not that often since penalties, good or bad decision, aren’t that frequent.
by Section 312 on Dec 22, 2009 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
In tournaments. Not in league play which is all I have been talking about this whole time. League games finished tied after 90 minutes. Penalties are only used in tournament games and I wasn’t talking about tournaments. I am not being deliberately obtuse my friend you just don’t know what you are talking about.
Aren’t your lunch breaks over? ;)
Please allow me to adjust my pants, so that I may dance the good time dance, and lead the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance.
I'm a grad student
So every day is like a lunch break ;)
by nucksandpucks on Dec 15, 2009 1:30 PM PST up reply actions
well done, nucksandpucks.
my favourite version of the 12 days of christmas is bob and doug mckenzie.
warning: you only need to watch the first 3 minutes. the rest of the video is a trailer for the animated series they put on air this year.
"If Chuck Norris was up against 7 Rangers, he'd call Ryan Kesler."
GO CANUCKS GO!
How about the 12 Days In Hockey, found by Joe Pelletier?
“And a chance to play with Wayne Gretzky.” I still remember that song.
I like it
That would be a very minor tweak to the game of 646-046 hockey. What you suggested was a massive redesign of the entire game. It’s a little 646-223 different. Look I don’t like American Football so I just don’t watch and there is really nothing that they could do to change that sport t make me interested. I would never tell an NFL fan what the 646-363 sport needs to "fix it" whether for just my benefit or not.
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