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by **bunglemark2** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:00 pm

Big Niall wrote:jesus, watching the Ireland team is dire. I am trying to stab my eyes out.

only highlight is John O'shea getting busted open

Only downside to that was that it wasn't McShane who got his head split. Maybe then they would've taken him off....what a bleedin' donkey....

by **Emerald Red** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:11 pm

Fowler_E7 wrote:Joe Terp, whats Lacrosse like, id love to play. Saw them playing on 90210 the other and it look pretty good everytime i watch american tv and they kids at high school sports games or college games they have stadiums with decent crowds and great equipment, is this a true reflection of kids sport over there or is just made for TV/Movie lies? coz in England its nothing like that

To put it simple: lacrosse is just a daft version of hurley in Ireland. Far less skill involved in it than it's counterpart, where in hurley you actually have to balance the slither on a stick when running with it and have to either flick it every few steps as you can't carry the ball, and passing it takes skill too. Oh, and hurley is far more frantic and rough. Youtube some of the scraps that break out during those games. Madness. It's a native American sport, I believe. But why the head gear and all the protection is needed for it is beyond me.

I played Lacross when I was in the states. And they call our sport sissy sports. The cheek.

by **JoeTerp** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:14 pm

I watch hurling on occasion. Its more like gaelic football or aussie rules but with sticks than it is like lacrosse. And btw the goal in lacrosse is about a third the size as in hurling and there are no points for shooting a mile over the goal.

greatest player I have ever seen check out the move at 2:05

I would say it probably is a fair reflection. High school and especially college sports are pretty big community events. We don't have academies or lower league teams and at most only 30 cities in the whole country will have a professional team in a given sport, and we have 5 times as many people over here. The professional teams get their talent from the universities which are supported with great fervor by the student bodies and alumni, and local community and they get their talent from the high schools which are attended by the students, parents of the students, and the local community. The main sports of football and basketball are the only ones where a lot of people would show up and at the university level there is big money to be made. However, the students have to keep amateur status so all the money generated goes to fund all the other "minor" sports programs like womens athletics and softball, and the coaches salary (sometimes as much as 3-4 million dollars a year to coach players playing for free! )

Actually, college football draws bigger crowds than the NFL. the 10 biggest will draw 100,000+ for home games, while the biggest NFL stadium, used to be my local teams stadium was 93,000.

Also we have a rule called title IX. This means that the proportion of womens sports programs to mens sports programs has to equal the proportion of female students to male students.

by **MoyVilla9** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:06 pm

JoeTerp wrote:
Bam wrote:
JoeTerp wrote:I think its a pleasant surprise how many people watched Fernando Torres goal over here.

Sorry Joe but I dont know what you are tyring to achieve with this.

It just confirms that Amercians think sport ends at their borders, not to metion the world.

Its not a very good stat to show off IMO.

Cue the Right Wing comments

personally, I thought it would have been lower. It took place mid day during the summer. Terrible time for tv, and it did double what basketball or baseball games normally get.

Are there any numbers for for who watched the finals of the Copa Del Rey or Copa Italia in England?

Yeah i was in new york for that and missed it all because it was on at a terrible time

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