posted on Mar, 15 2011 @ 07:47 AM
Huge fan, however, I prefer world class football and spend most of my time absorbing the Premiership. With regards to the MLS, I'm looking forward to
the Vancouver Whitecaps kicking off their inaugural season, they have a great program there and will thrive at this level of competition. Soccer is
the most universal and beautiful game on earth, played everywhere, which is shear beauty in itself. I don't understand how Americans are so into
Football..it's just soo slow and full of juiced up gangsters (Baseball is also a very drawn out and slow sport). Probably because there is a whistle
every 10 seconds giving the over sized country a chance to dip a chip and not pay that much attention. Soccer is a game of complex and technical
intelligence (the Chess of the sports world) combined with athleticism and a flare for the dramatic. I really don't think Americans can really
comprehend a sport of this caliber; I remember years ago when they began showing more televised hockey games in the states and the network had to
actually highlight the puck because Americans couldn't follow it! That is utterly hilarious! Hockey is the greatest sport on earth; it is the
fastest contact sport in the world where warriors battle in an endless medium of creativity and at stunning velocities. Baseball, Basketball, and
Football players break a nail or finger and they are out for weeks. A hockey player wouldn't dare bail on his team if this happened, they'd be out
the next shift working just as hard. It's understood in the culture of hockey that players take great pride in knowing they are the toughest
athletes in the world while maintaining high fitness standards. A guy gets cut in a Baseball game and that's it for his night; in hockey, you get
stitched up on the bench or in the locker room and head back out. But I digress...I'll surely be following the MLS this season.