Because it's the vanilla ice cream of sports. People asked themselves what the blandest, most boring sport possible was, and the obvious answer was soccer. I give credit to my countrymen for resisting its wiles.
cricket couldnt get any more bland... a large number of guys standing around not doing a lot while the action such as it is takes place on a tiny pitch in the middle well away from the spectators... and it takes multiple days for it to complete... the only reason to willingly watch cricket is if there's no paint drying to offer greater excitement
OED adjective: bland; comparative adjective: blander; superlative adjective: blandest lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting. "bland, mass-produced pop music" Synonyms: uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, drab
@ BSM I agree and also disagree. I enjoy watching the limited over's version of the game, especially when the team is on a huge run chase. I watched many a 'nail-biting' finish over the years. Now, test cricket, IMO, is a snorefest!
They're different words though, with different emphases. Boring is like *yawn* which I'm not disputing may be the case with cricket, but it seems to have plenty of strong features and characteristics.
I can name far more soccer players than I can other sports people. I happily disappoint you in this regard. I love soccer, and I will always love it. The World Cup is one of my favorite things. Uruguay for life. Followed by the US, and then Mexico. Diego Forlan is my favorite player, Tim Howard and Landon Donovan close behind. When I play, I usually play with people who don't actually know the rules, but we do have our own sections we play in. I've been bulldozed by one of my best best friends who sent me ass over head into the goal, but I blocked his shot. He bruised the hell out of me. Then when I was moved onto the field, I ran screaming like a banshee at him and he was so startled, I easily stole the ball. What a frickin' rush, man. Pardon me, I got excited. I should say that I can name just about every single player on the late 90s early 00s roster of the New York Yankees, but that credit goes to my dad who is the biggest fanboy of the Yankees. Although not lately. He's more fond of the Nationals nowadays. And that's my little ramble for the night.
Or American football. Well they have, obviously, but the fact they enjoy it.... that’s the real mystery.
interesting way to look at a year. I can understand it only if I watch a movie like Moneyball. People's lives tied to the sport. The sport itself is only sporadically interesting to me.
Tmw your city decides to test (i HOPE it was a test) the emergency air raid horns outside of the scheduled testing days and hours, and everyone in the building starts freaking out.... No alerts on the weather website,no alerts on the city's website... So im just going to assume it was a test
Apparently we do. I'd never heard them before until this afternoon And was told they test them on Sundays and Tuesdays around noon.
The sport of cricket is a sore in my heart. I grew up watching it. I had stats memorized and followed every series across the globe. Only a handful of countries play it, granted. Yet it was big for me personally. And then the commercialization of the sport killed it. A new exhibitionistic format emerged and dominated the sport. Heartbreaking. Really.
Sweden also has regularly tested air raid sirens. You don't want to be in the wrong place at 15:00 on the first Monday of a month or you might not hear for the rest of the day. Prague, Czech Republic, has an interesting system. When they test their air raid sirens they first play a really loud "we're going to test the sirens" message in both Czech and English, so that everyone knows what's going on. In Sweden we just blast the sirens, so if someone actually wanted to raid us they can just do it during a test.