Should we allow soccer threads in the sports section?

[trumad]

I mean after all it's just kicking a ball around with an occasional academy award performance for best spasm.

[nickgutierrez]

1. The diving in soccer...

...is no worse than the flopping in the NBA. Remember Vlade Divac? The second somebody like Shaq happened to graze his leg, Vlade went down like he'd been shot.

Oh, and what about the pathetic work done by kickers and punters in the NFL, every time a player happens to go anywhere near them?

I guess I just don't understand the criticism of soccer, especially not for crap that goes on in every other sport that we can think of.

[trumad]

4. Vlade Divac

He's a foreigner hence his tendency to flop.

And NFL kickers aren't really football players...they're mini-soccer players.

[H2O Man]

2. I'm not sure

what that has to do with boxing.

[trumad]

3. It does have some Mike Tyson type quailites....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m3TcpQTm6gM

[H2O Man]

5. That would be

more of what we should call "Evander Holyfield qualities." In the infamous fight where Mike is alleged to have licked or nibbled Evander's ear, the films do show Holyfield butted Mike several times, opening a cut. Mike did appear to have some frustration at the failure of the referee -- a man who represented the greater society -- ignoring Holyfield's illegal tactic. More, Evander was once disqualified as an amateur for biting an opponent. Also, Holyfield used steroids.

Free Mike Tyson!

[trumad]

6. alleged ?

Dude--- did your you spar with your son recently? ;-)

[H2O Man]

7. Ok .....

let's just say for sake of this discussion that Mike DID lick Evander's ear. Does that in any way change the fact that Mike was the real victim in the fight?

[trumad]

9. Let's see? Headbutt or a piece missing from my ear?

That's a tough one.

[H2O Man]

10. Clearly photoshopped.

Surely we all know Mike didn't have any tatoo on his right arm at the time of the first Holyfield fight.

[trumad]

11. snarf...

in a chain pulling mood today eh? :-)

[H2O Man]

12. Yep.

That was surely one of the ugliest incidents in all of sports history.

[northzax]

8. certainly not

all the other sports threads would be jealous of the beauty.

[bigwillq]

13. Yes

it's a sport. One that I don't really enjoy but it is a sport, imo

[trumad]

14. So is Curling

which if you think about it---moves at the same pace.