Anyone else getting sick of seeing Beckham/LA Galaxy on Sky every day?

EVERY day it's on Sky Sports News.

I DON'T CARE! (blagger) (kissmyass) /poo

 

I like thier home shirt, but can't find it without Beckham on the back!

 

LOL

I think they had all this season's shirts done with 23 Beckham on.

I'd wager that 99% of people couldn't even name another member of LAG's team.

 

Landon Donovan

Guess I'm in the 1% then

 

freak. nt

 

He's slightly famous though

So, no points for Cobi Jones, either!!

 

RE: freak. nt

Yep well I'm not asked to mediate all football arguments at work and texted all football quiz questions for no reason... I admit it is a little sad

 

I am! I wouldn't mind so much if it hadn't been tried before. Pele; Beckenbaur; George Best and lots more far better players than Beckham, have tried to bring the game to USA and all have failed. What makes him (or anyone else for that matter) think that he can succeed where they failed.

 

dont watch it..

and now i know why

 

Exactly

They both played for the national team, hence the reason they're slightly famous.

 

I know who both of them are

but because they're in/were in the USA national team

If you asked me which team they played for I'd have no idea.

 

Because the state of the game, and the league, there for the last few years has been stronger than it was in the '70's.
Now they have a grass roots level, what it needs is a system where kids who have played it in schools, and it's the biggest participation sport amongst kids, can continue at a college level - whether the media and major sponsors allow it to is another matter.
It will never rival American Football, Baseball or Basketball in mainstream popularity but it could very well challenge Ice Hockey.

 

The problem is....

that Americans excel in sports that they run. They're not really interested in sports that they can't dictate. Remember when they held the World Cup (a shocking decision IMHO) they requested that games be broken into quarters so they could have more advert breaks. Oh and the goals be made bigger too, cos Americans can't be doing with than nil-nil nonsense.

The other thing is that they don't understand promotion and relegation - a staple of pretty much every league in the whole world. In the states you can be as **** as you like cos you'll be playing the same teams the next season.

 

Try here

http://www.subsidesports.com/uk/store/product_list.jsp?id=816

Then again, you'll still be accused of jumping on the Beckham bandwagon anyway so pick a different US team instead

So I'd recommend this

http://www.subsidesports.com/uk/sto...6967&cid=810&brc=&red=product_list.jsp?id=810,

 

please tell me this is a joke

http://www.subsidesports.com/uk/store/product_list.jsp?id=1031&mid=-1

NO way. Just NO way.

 

So to start picking that apart

Firstly, they did not request games to be in quarters, or bigger goals, that was a media myth. They looked into ways, at a domestic level, that they could make the game more palatable to their own public (hence the shootout that they have since disposed of) but they never had any thoughts of imposing that on the world stage. You do quite a disservice to US fans of the sport with that, they love the game and the way it is.

Excell in sports they run - is that why the inaugural World Baseball Classic (effectively the world cup) was won by Japan last year and that the MLB has loads of non American players?

Yes they don't have promotion/relegation - but what they do have is a draft system that gives first choice to the lowest placed team, which is why you don't tend to get 1 club dominating for years, baseball has had 7 different champions over the last 7 years. For a very Capitalist country they adopt a more Socialist principle to sport than we do.

And it's not so much 0-0 that Americans can't be doing with, more the notion of a tied game, and believe me I've had this argument time and again with an American friend, it's a cultural thing.

 

In response

Why should a game that is accepted globally be made "more palatable" to Americans? Why can't they just realise that the world doesn't revolve around them?

A lot of my family are American so I'm not being xenophobic here.

 

and the draft thing

all very noble - but it doesn't get round the problem that the same teams complete every year.

Imagine if they were told that the draft was started with teams 3 divisions lower. They'd have a fit.

 

RE: In response

Again - it was at a domestic level that they were looking at ways to introduce it to a wider audience, not on a world level.

And they don't, they just basically don't give a toss about football overall - but then it's a case of damn them for not liking it and then damn them again if they get slightly interested.

 

if they don't give a toss

then quite honestly I think the footballing world should stop giving them the bloody World Cup. Let them thrive on their "world series" sports than only about 4 nations give a **** about.