RE: Football or Football or Futbol or Soccer or..
September 11, 2013 at 8:10 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2013 at 8:13 pm by Tonus.)
(July 10, 2013 at 11:34 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Is american "football" also infected with that disgusting disease called hooliganism?
On the part of the players, yes. Fans are noisy and occasionally do dangerous and stupid things, but it's usually notable when they do. Although the fans in some of our northeastern cities (Philly, Boston, New York) pride themselves in being particularly obnoxious, they don't really hold a candle to some of the crazy shit I've seen soccer fans do.
If Alex Rodriguez was a soccer player, they'd probably have fished his corpse out of a lake years ago.
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