Video: 52 goals from 15 MLS games in just over five minutes
As we all know, soccer is an incredibly boring sport that no one cares about.
Video: 52 goals from 15 MLS games in just over five minutes
Jonathan Tannenwald
Filed Under: Major League Soccer
As we all know, soccer is an incredibly boring sport that no one cares about.
To confirm this belief, the wizards at Kick TV - a collaboration between Major League Soccer and YouTube - put together a useful video.
It is a compilation of the 52 goals that were scored across the 15 MLS games played this past Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. That is an average of 3.47 goals per game.
The video seems to indicate that all of those goals were witnessed by actual people, too. Even the ones scored in Chivas USA's home game.
Some of the goals may have also been witnessed on television. ESPN reported that its Portland-Seattle telecast Sunday evening drew the largest overnight rating for a MLS game on any of its channels in 11 years.
So I repeat, soccer is boring and no one cares about it. Right?
Comments (8)
Jonathan: Your headline is accurate and shows me that you have had enough of this footie-ball nonsense and want to start covering real sports. Your 1st assignment is to meet with your editors and find out why they posted the doctored footie-ball tape showing it as an exciting sport that has fan interest. Welcome back my friend to the world of real sports.
HappyBob "speaker of the truth and beacon of light on this board of a doctored tape" has spoken. :)
— HappyBob
As someone who has watched nearly every game so far in Euro 2012, I can say that I truly understand, though disagree, why someone could find soccer boring. Some teams, for instance Czech or England (a very high quality team!!!!), who played so defensively that they only mustered a couple of chances while their much better opponent, Portugal and Italy, just ran circles around them. What ends up happening is that Portugal and Italy spends most of the game on the overloaded offensive side, and you get a lot of slow picking of death, and the Czech and England counters just a couple of times, causing a game with nearly few chances. (England's poor midfielders who kept on turning the ball over didn't help.) What that means is that offense is a very slow developing process, and I can understand why someone would dislike having to wait 90 or 120 minutes for maybe a dozen real chances. With that said, it is really easy to claim that the entire sport is some extreme rush of goals that are scored when it is doctored and compiled into one video. That's not soccer. Soccer, especially at the higher levels, is much slower, and much more predicated on position, precision, decisions, and support. I find soccer hypnotizing because I find many similarities to hockey (similar to the qualities just mentioned). But just as how someone can find soccer so painfully slow and boring, someone might find baseball even slower (I do NOT want to watch another Roy Halladay vs Chris Carpenter.. talk about lack of actions), or someone might find football too schizophrenic with its constant stopping, or someone might find basketball a game that lacks any meaning until the 4th quarter (because really.. there are no pivotal moments in the first 3 quarters). Don't blame Americans. Blame the MLS for poor brand management. Hell, if Nascar can stake claim to some sort of interest despite taking left turns for 2 hours, why can't the MLS convince Americans to watch more soccer?— trungy- I don't care who is or is not interested in Soccer, as long as there are enough for the sport to thrive. I know what I know and I know it's the greatest sport out there and I know I love it. If others are too stupid to grasp the awesomeness of soccer it's of no concern to me. The sport will grow in this country in spite of the ignorant people. Those people are getting ready for the dirt nap in increasing numbers, while the young in this country seem to get it. Father Time will take his course and the slow inexorable advance of soccer will continue and there is nothing a soccer hater can do to stop it. That is the great thing. It is they who'll have to see something they loath, all around them... with increasing amounts! :)— kraftownzrevs
- League Att% Att#
NFL 95.20% 67,419
MLB 71.89% 31,085
MLS 88.56% 18,650
NHL 95.46% 17,455
NBA 90.19% 17,273
So MLS definitely belongs in the same conversation with the NHL and NBA.— Pelti - Summer shouldn't be just about MLB. MLS should definitely grow during the same void of a summer.— trungy
- PPL park would also be a great place to bring outdoor lacrosse back to Philly as another summer option.
— Pelti - Pelti -- I'm with you on that, especially since MLL is poised to double in size by the end of the decade.— BigBrain61
- Here is how I know soccer has finally arrived. In 1990 I saw another person wearing a soccer jersey once every six months. Now I see them almost every day. Heck, there was a guy wearing a Barca shirt at shooting competition at my local gun club. If soccer gear is showing up in the gun culture crowd, then the sport has definitely grown to become a major sport in the USA.— crosswiredmind
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Reach Jonathan at jtannenwald@phillynews.com or 215-854-2330.
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