On some highly popular US based internet threads, it is almost a pastime for gridiron fans and football fans to square off toe to toe. I have seen the argument used that essentially, the two sports are not mutually exclusive. The fact this debate rages on, has led me to gather up some thoughts.
It's just funny that of all the sports out there, pure gridiron football fans seem to have an almost pathological aversion to the world game. There is something there, some animosity, I can't put my finger on. It's not like the two sports competed against each other for time in high school - at least not mine - gridiron was in the Fall and high school soccer was in Spring. In fact, we had a couple of guys that played both (besides the kickers). As a side note, I am happy to admit the hot chickies in school consistently went for the soccer team over all others - hmmm, in fact, that might make for an interesting survey...there could be something there. Some high school related Freudian slap in the face that builds in to this anti soccer mentality as an adult?
Beyond that, I think it may also be just a generic sports ego thing. Clearly NFL and NCAA gridiron are the biggest "per event" spectator sports in the US and yet, once every four years, we see how the entire world unites to not only watch, but live, a single month long sporting event. It may be a bit humbling for our gridiron brethren. A knee jerk reaction, albeit mostly exhibited in primary grades, may be to lash out. That being said, it is a rather bizarre response.
Oh well, no apologies, on Sunday's this Fall while a lot of Americans will be sitting on the couch watching NFL, I'll be out on the pitch playing the world's game. To each his own I reckon.
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