[quote name="Baxter Burgundy" post="747221" timestamp="1264049215"] [quote author=The Ingredient link=topic=64999.msg746974#msg746974 date=1264015505] Whoa now. Go back and read it again without your emotions getting in the way. That's [b]MY[/b] reason why [b]I [/b] never got into soccer. Trying to give you some insight on the way many people view your sport. Obviously this view is probably more common in the U.S. than other places around the world. Most of our(the U.S.) best and most skilled athletes don't play soccer. I magine if Reggie Bush, Adrien Peterson, Barry Sanders, Walter Peyton, Alan Iverson, Lebron James,Ozzie Smith(as goalie) ect... all grew up and/or kept playing soccer. Granted their are some great athletes playing soccer but IMO they are not the top teir athletes in the U.S. Plus it's played in schools at the worst time of the year weather wise. Why??? Again, just some of the reasons why soccer isn't seen by many as what you want it to be. [/quote] i think you have no idea of what you're speaking about. in soccer they don't stop play every 6 seconds, they aren't covered head to toe in pads, and they play more than one game a week (like in American football) they run more than 100 ft (basketball) i mean, you just can't diss soccer saying that it doesn't require athleticism to play. ALSO i have no clue where you got the term "white sport" more people of Hispanic or African descent play REAL FOOTBALL (or as they say here in the u.s., "soccer") that's just what i think, sir [/quote]Baxter is right, I've played football for the past 8 years, but I started playing soccer this year and its not what I thought. It can be a physical sport really physical.