I'm personally really sold on the F.A. Premier, which for all you local types, means English soccer. I know, I've got zero loyalty to america, right? Well, here's why I don't care about football. It's all about the money, and there isn't excitement like there is in some real futbol. Here's what I mean: pull up a video on youtube about a NFL game, and it will generally be something like this:
Not bad per se, but the crowd only gets excited when something big happens. You've seen it happen before, if a game is a shutout, the crowd goes home at halftime, and that's only because they paid good money to watch a game. If it was cheap, they'd leave even earlier.
Now, here's a FA game:
And all that cheering is happening at the END of the game, when most people would have gone home already. A crowd at a NFL game has nothing on a crowd at a soccer game in the UK. Plain & simple.
And this year is crazy, which is another thing I like about it. Case in point: Up until a month ago, the #1 team was completely unstoppable basically. They were playing great and hardly ever losing, being way up in the points for the leader board. (quick lesson on leader boards: in FA, you get 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss. so if you have a lot of points, you are doing really good) So, Arsenal, the power that be for the year, is just dominating the heck out of people, until about a month ago, when they lost 1 game, and tied 2, and now they're #3 in the rankings. I love that the game can change so quickly just like that. It's so great. Makes it so much more exciting. And really, most people outside the U.S. call soccer "the beautiful game," and it's pretty phenomenal really. It's a great thing to watch and be part of. Great stuff to watch. Oh, and yes, I'm already counting the days to the next World Cup if you're wondering. 798 days and counting. . .
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