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Each sport has their own way of fan excitement. I dont think I have attended a sporting event where the crowd was completely boring unless the game was just terrible.
Man. How much excitement do you need? It's pretty intense at SEC football games I can tell you that much. Here's just a taste of some college and pro football stadium excitement in the U.S. mostly from this year. Oh yeah, and one more point should be made. Crowd noise in American football is actually quiet strategic. Crowds purposely get quieter when their home team has the ball to allow them to easily communicate plays to one another while getting very loud when the other team has the ball on to drown out their ability to audabilize plays and dissrupt their quarterbacks cadence. This can be extremly effective in loud stadiums.
Sensitive ears and kiddies might want to watch out. A little profanity at the end of this first one.
One thing i cant stand though, is when you've got an idiot on a megaphone telling you when to sing and when to bounce or whatever.
Atmosphere is best when its spontanius(sp). I hate it when the guy comes over the tannoy at our home ground at a volume that makes my ears bleed bellowing "MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!!!". And when they hand out those stupid paper clapper things . Just stop telling us to sit down and let us stand and get behind the team ffs. It's a football match not golf or bloody lawn bowls!
As for MLS atmosphere, I've only seen a few youtube vids so i cant really comment. But what does it matter anyway, your atmosphere is your atmosphere. Im sure there all just as passionate about there teams as everyone else. They all go to the games and back the team and thats all that matters really
Quite the opposite. American sporting events are quite superficial because they fill the games with constant crap to distract the fans for the actual game itself. Cheerleaders, stupid in-between the innings crap (which potato wins the race to first base on the big screen, spin on the bat contests), bands playing, dance teams, halftime shows, countless annoying mascots jumping around... I could go on forever. International soccer games tend to be about the sport itself and don't need those ridiculous distractions to keep the average fans attention.
Anyway... the point is American sporting events go way overboard bringing in all these distractions trying to build stadium atmosphere which, in my opinion, is not only superficial, but disrespectful to the sport itself. Take the super Bowl for example.. It has unfortunately morphed into this giant, goofy, pop culture cesspool.
Very late response, but I mean if the game/match is fun, who cares if the atmosphere is boring?
Quite the opposite. American sporting events are quite superficial because they fill the games with constant crap to distract the fans for the actual game itself. Cheerleaders, stupid in-between the innings crap (which potato wins the race to first base on the big screen, spin on the bat contests), bands playing, dance teams, halftime shows, countless annoying mascots jumping around... I could go on forever. International soccer games tend to be about the sport itself and don't need those ridiculous distractions to keep the average fans attention.
Anyway... the point is American sporting events go way overboard bringing in all these distractions trying to build stadium atmosphere which, in my opinion, is not only superficial, but disrespectful to the sport itself. Take the super Bowl for example.. It has unfortunately morphed into this giant, goofy, pop culture cesspool.
Non-americans come off as very superficial with their obsession with "atmosphere." Not to mention there arrogance of not understanding that americans have the right to have a different sport culture.
When americans watch a game they are watching the game- not singing and rioting. Notice how soccer fans rarely talk about the actual game and activity on the pitch but the atmosphere and fans???
I can't understand why people get excited over soccer.
In the USA the highest skilled athletes play baseball then those big guys who can't hit or catch a ball play football, than those real tall guys who can't hit or run real fast carrying a ball play basketball. and finally those little guys who can't hit or throw or tackle decide to be soccer players. But that's the way it is in the USA a sport made for everybody.
In all fairness not everybody understands baseball, football or basketball so you guys got soccer.
Please don't tell me how popular soccer is world wide. Easy stuff is always more popular.
Soccer haters crack me up. This is wrong IMO, but you get points for creativity and use of smilies.
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Originally Posted by TheDanishGuy
Sport or football in Europe is life.
In the US, sport is entertainment.
This might be true. But I think in Europe there is still a very rigid class structure in many countries. Spain and England for example. I think people feel constrained in their daily lives, and they probably are...more so than Americans. Even with all of our sh_t, we are still the land of the free and the home of the brave. No need to pray all night for the team to win like your life depends on it...People here do go to games and watch for fun and entertainment. What's wrong with that?
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Originally Posted by rantanamo
I hate arguing atmosphere as I don't want hooligans. Our police will kill people if they behave like that, plus our populace has many licensed gun carriers. Try that **** in Dallas, TX and it will be a massacre. Simply don't want that.
Here's a tip for the OP: College football or basketball.
LOLLL this is not meant to be funny...so why did I laugh SO LONG and HARD at this. You TELL THEM. LOL yep that's probably it. Hooliganism could get out of hand fast. And yes USA police are not a joke. They WILL shoot you. I can just see it. Some ass decides to throw a table or set off a bunch of flares in a crowded stadium. ha ha ha.
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. Just stop telling us to sit down and let us stand and get behind the team ffs. It's a football match not golf or bloody lawn bowls!
so you guys got soccer.
