I figured out why soccer will never be popular here...

[devilgrrl]

It's the commentators. They are irritating and suck every enjoyable moment out the game. Who wants that?

[jpgray]

1. Well, the "voice" and the "ex-pro" strategy is a bit rough with soccer

Because one gets the idea the "voice" has no idea what the fuck he is talking about.

[Mutley]

2. A lot of baseball commentators are like that, too.

:grr:

[GOPisEvil]

3. Yes, but no, I repeat NO vapid sideline reporters.

Dave O'Brien sucks at soccer, although he's ok at baseball.

[BuddhaGirl]

4. bad commentating exists in football, baseball, etc. as well

it's not unique to soccer :shrug:

[billyskank]

6. I was just about to say

you've never heard John Motson on BBC football coverage! That man can talk non-stop bullshit for ninety minutes without even needing to draw breath!

:rofl:

[bumblebee1]

10. Does he ever run out of saliva?

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. It's because of scores like 1-0

Mer'kins like BIG scores. Defense? Bah!

Oh, and we count time backwards, like we're gonna shoot off a fuckin' rocket or somethin'. :eyes:

[billyskank]

7. Bullshit commentary is all part of the football experience

but maybe your commentators have the wrong grade of bullshit, perhaps? :shrug:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. It's very different than most U.S. sports... not only low scores, but also

no real breaks in the game other than halftime, each half flows continuously.

I guess this would be bad for commercial breaks and "TV timeouts".

[Kajsa]

9. Oh hell no!

There are few and I mean few
thing more irritating than the droning
dribble commentators on'Monday Night
Football'.

I hit the mute button for most of the games.

Soccer commentators are much better.

Who can resist that world famous
" Gooooooooooooooooooooooalllllll"?

[HuckleB]

11. You should have watched it on Univision.

Besides, we've got no decent announcers for any sport in this country anymore.

[SoCalDem]

12. MUTE... the best way to watch soccer or any sport

and when they score..quickly tune to Mexican tv to hear GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL :)

[texanwitch]

13. Maybe if soccer had half naked cheerleaders jumping around

on the sidelines.

That might work.

[ikri]

14. It's been tried

When Sky TV (Murdoch's UK TV station) won the rights to show live football here in the UK in the early 90's they tried a few different ideas to excite the crowd.

We had mascots running around the pitch before the game. Something to entertain the kids apparently.
We had cheerleaders appear shortly before games and at half time.

Pretty much everyone thought it was a joke. It was tacky and unnecessary and demeaned the spectators who didn't need anyone else to get them excited about a game they were already likely to enjoy.

The cheerleaders vanished very quickly.

[Endangered Specie]

15. Soccer isnt designed around having many large commercial breaks...

thats another major reason IMO

[gkdmaths]

16. I have as much respect for commentators

that can hold a "gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllll, goal goal goal goooooooooaaal" for five minutes as I do for athletes who can run full-out without stopping for 90 minutes.

listening to mexican commentators is a good way to learn turbo spanish, too.

:7