Unfortunately, I find it about as interesting to watch as a haircut. They would probably have to offer free beer for me to attend a game.
Sorry Ruff, to me soccer is a game I think this country has grown out of.
Wow. You just spoke on behalf of the ENTIRE country... geez.
Free beer?.... Here ya go...
http://www.thefreebeermovement.com/If anything, soccer is becoming more and more popular in this country, year over year. People who've grown up playing youth soccer are now better able to connect with the professional sport, both domestically and internationally, in ways not possible two or three decades ago. You and Heir's insults do not change those facts.
I find watching a baseball game about as much fun as watching grass grow... yet we didn't seem to have a problem building
them a stadium downtown.
If what keeps you from watching outdoor soccer is the lack of scoring, Adam Meillor is re-starting an indoor team to play downtown at the convention center for 2013-14.
http://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/tulsa-revolution-2013.1947913/Major League Soccer finds itself more popular than the Roughnecks were in Tulsa in the late70s/early 80s.
League-wide average attendance is at 18,807 fans per game.
MLS finished seventh in global average attendance among soccer leagues.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/10/30/mls-sets-new-attendance-marks-second-straight-yearCompare those figures to the hey-day of the NASL (1979, 1980, 1981) when the league never averaged more than 14,500 fans per game.
MLS doesn't need Tulsa as a market, and a team here may never happen.
But there is a really solid competitive youth soccer system of clubs here.
That is the legacy left by people like Victor Moreland, Charlie Mitchell, Keith Eddy, etc etc etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2m7GdEP_ig&playnext=1&list=PLE6F1F016F00F7665&feature=results_videoThe University of Tulsa has a nationally ranked men's soccer team more often than not.
IMHO, those people deserve better, and really shouldn't be subject to condescending insults hurled by domestic sports jingoists...
I think thousands of
these Tulsans would like to have a word with you before you drone on about how boring you (and this country?) think soccer is...
My reasons for wanting pro soccer in Tulsa revolve around the grassroots support the sport enjoys here. And I believe, if we were given the chance, our fans would support a high level pro soccer team far better than Arena Football or the WNBA.
Meanwhile, back on topic.... The Onion's having a field day with our gun-obsessed counterculture....
http://www.theonion.com/video/nra-fights-legislation-that-would-ban-gun-sales-to,30927/This one, eerily prophetic from last May...
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nra-sets-1000-killed-in-school-shooting-as-amount,28352/ And these...
http://www.theonion.com/articles/frustrated-wayne-lapierre-thought-murder-of-20-chi,30813/http://www.theonion.com/articles/wayne-lapierre-goes-on-harpooning-spree-to-prove-s,30947/FAIRFAX, VA—In what sources said was most likely an attempt to prove some kind of point about something, a harpoon-wielding Wayne LaPierre went on a vicious, indiscriminate skewering rampage through the greater Fairfax area this morning. "As you can see, the question of what object a mentally ill person uses to harm another human being is not the issue, but rather a distraction designed to curtail the American people's constitutionally protected right to bear firearms," said the National Rifle Association vice president as he stabbed an innocent bystander in the chest with an 8-foot whaling harpoon in order to, reportedly, illustrate a thesis of sorts.