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Subject: Re: NASCARS : what's the thrill ? I dont get it
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Come on guys...

The subject of the first post says it all. Let's face it, they "don't get it".
They think soccer is challanging and exciting, and we are trying to talk to them
about athletes and NASCAR?  How can you explain it to people with that frame of
reference? They will never "get it". It's cultural differences. They don't
understand, because of their perspective. You'd have to be here to see it, to
understand it, and to appreciate it. Just be thankful for your own culture,
embrace it, and remeber this discussion on July 4th.... and be thankfull that the
Red Sox can't be relegated <G>....

Lou Blasi



Todd Dry wrote:

> I actually have to agree with David here (now that's different).  The most
> interesting thing to me about the World Cup was that if soccer (er, football)
> was even a remotely significant sport over here then none of the guys on our
> team would even have been on the field.  Our best athletes don't play soccer
> (er, football).  The U.S., by far, has more of the best athletes than any
> other country, probably more than all other countries combined.  But what does
> any of this have to do with the thrill of NECKCAR?
>
> In article <3679B052.DA0D52B4@tpjones.demon.co.uk>, Paul@tpjones.demon.co.uk
> wrote:
> >This is a troll isn't it, David? The number one sport in the world, bar
> >none is what we all call football and you call soccer. Ask any boy on
> >the streets of Lagos, Liverpool, Rome, Sao Paulo, Berlin etc which sport
> >he would like to be a star at, and nine times out of ten he will say
> >Football. But you don't play it. How can you field athletes in a whole
> >range of sports that we don't compete in seriously (including Athletics
> ><yawn>) and then claim to have the best athletes in the world. Field a
> >football team that can beat, wait for it, Iran <snigger>, and then I'll
> >consider your claim more seriously. (It irritates me than the North
> >American Region of football has three entries in the World Cup and one
> >one football team of merit (Mexico). Pitted against European countries,
> >the US would rank somewhere below Switzerland and would have little hope
> >of qualifying for a place in the finals. It's all down to FIFA trying to
> >get a slice of your tv advertising money and it stinks. The US should
> >have to compete for World Cup places against the real American teams
> >like Brazil and Argentina.)
> >Paul
> >
> >David G Fisher wrote:
> >
> >> Are you honestly trying to say that there is another country who has
> >> athletes who can even remotely compare to the one's in the U.S.?
> >>
> >> David G Fisher

