FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[EastCoastStag]

Bingo Bob!
I always had this burning desire to hit people hard and just kicking the ball around seemed pointless. So once I talked my parents into football, they became addicts as well. Thanksgiving morning senior year of HS, my mother kicked me out of the house and to the gym.
I'll do my best to keep my kids from playing soccer. Field hockey for the girls and football for the boys.... in a good 10-15 years I hope.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Bingo Bob!
I always had this burning desire to hit people hard and just kicking the ball around seemed pointless. So once I talked my parents into football, they became addicts as well. Thanksgiving morning senior year of HS, my mother kicked me out of the house and to the gym.
I'll do my best to keep my kids from playing soccer. Field hockey for the girls and football for the boys.... in a good 10-15 years I hope.

You know, if my son continues to prefer karate and soccer over football and rugby, I'm cool with that . . . my kid isn't me.

[scandihoovian]

I am fully aware there's a bit of good natured nose tweaking going on here, but I'll still throw in my own 2 cents in support of Tooth.

I played some soccer as a kid, and it was OK.  Moved on to baseball, and then basketball in High School.   My change in attitude started with the 1994 World Cup, where I saw the US beat Colombia 2-1 at the Rose Bowl.  I have been all over the country watching "big-time" athletic events, and with the sole exception of watching Bobby Welch strike out Reggie Jackson in game 2 of the 1978 World Series, that soccer game was the most electric atmosphere I have ever experienced at an athletic event.

Coaching my sons' soccer teams has been a blast, and my appreciation for the subtleties of the game has grown immensely in recent years.

[tmerton]

I always enjoyed soccer - AYSO when we were in Pasadena.  #1 son even got to play (and win!) on the sacred turf of the Rose Bowl.  And we never had 0-0 games, even at the beginner level (more often we had crappy defenders and would see 5 or more goals in a game ).  #1 son eventually gravitated to lacrosse and #2 to football, which pleased me in both cases, but I don't regret their days playing soccer - and neither do they.  Indeed, #2 got into some pick-up games this past summer with some of the international students on campus.

[CalCat]

Now there was this one place down in Chino I think had this great sign. (Saw it when I was on my way to get my thesis bound) 100 hot chicks and 3 ugly ones (paraphrasing, but it was something to that degree). Couldn't help but laugh out loud.

DEJAVU

[RFB]

I believe soccer is a great starter sport for kids. It's great for kids to learn and develop motor movement. It's also a good sport to get kids exposed to teamwork and working together. Also, kids are moving and running a ton. I will try to expose my daughter to multiple sports and hopefully one will take with her, if soccer is the one then great. My one hope is that she will like golf as it is a sport I'm obsessed with. I wish my parents had put a club in my hands at an early age. She will be forced to know and love football though. It will be non-negotiable in my household.

[tmerton]

My change in attitude started with the 1994 World Cup, where I saw the US beat Colombia 2-1 at the Rose Bowl.  I have been all over the country watching "big-time" athletic events, and with the sole exception of watching Bobby Welch strike out Reggie Jackson in game 2 of the 1978 World Series, that soccer game was the most electric atmosphere I have ever experienced at an athletic event.

We saw four of the games at Stanford Stadium, including the US against Brazil.  Now for excitement I'm not sure I've seen anything as exciting as a 4th grade CYO baskeball playoff game that went to OT that #2 son played in  , but the World Cup was a lot of fun.  As for that game against Columbia, I'll bet the atmosphere was especially electric for Andres Escobar, the Columbian player who scored the own goal (he was shot and killed shortly after returning home in retaliation for his error - the gunman reportedly screaming "goal" each time he fired a shot into him).

[snoop dawg]

Yeah, soccer is fun when you are watching your young son or daughter play.  My son began playing tackle football at age 7.  He was happy that he could finally really...tackle ....someone without having the ref card him.  That was a fun time.

[DuffMan]

Can't we talk about the 40 points that SJU is gonna drop on this "stellar" Bulldog defense instead of soccer...sheesh

[TC]

Can't we talk about the 40 points that SJU is gonna drop on this "stellar" Bulldog defense instead of soccer...sheesh

Q:  Why do so many kids play soccer these days?

A:  So they don't have to watch it.



Honestly, can we stop with the soccer talk already?  At least bring it back to quiche or Paris Hilton or wildfires or something.  For the fortunate few EVERY WEEK IS JOHNNIE WEEK!!!, but for the readers of this board this is your one shot for the year.  Let's not waste it discussing the poor man's hockey, OK?

[ncdawg11]

Soccer was fun at the time, because my son couldnt start fooball until age 9,but he did get alot of practice running kids over.Cant remember Snoop, what was it a yellow and red card or both?Then the real fun started,getting to watch him run over kids with pads on!Nothing like football,the ultimate team game.

40 points?

[DuffMan]

40 points?

You haven't seen a "midwest" offense out in LaLa Land.

[Gray Fox]

As for that game against Columbia, I'll bet the atmosphere was especially electric for Andres Escobar, the Columbian player who scored the own goal (he was shot and killed shortly after returning home in retaliation for his error - the gunman reportedly screaming "goal" each time he fired a shot into him).

And to think that some of us get upset when we get smote.

[Tom Brady]

Wait, some of you guys have kids

[TC]

40 points?

Yeah, let's start the discussion at 40 and see where it leads.

I'll admit, the Johnnies have had some scares this year--namely, UW-River Falls, Carleton and, of course, the loss to Bethel.  The common denominator in those three games?  All on the road.  

In Collegeville, the Johnnies have put up 55 points against OAC foe Marietta, 62 against Augsburg (including 49 before pulling the starters at the half), 52 against the typically more-than-competitive Concordia-Moorhead Cobbers, 30 against St. Olaf, and 51 against rival St. Thomas.

That's a total of 250 points--50 per game.  Check out my earlier post over on the MIAC page or at www.JohnnieFootball.com--our quarterback, Alex Kofoed, is legit at home (and decidedly less so on the road).  

So let's hear it--how are the Pups going to stop the Johnnies from moving the ball up and down the Clemens Stadium SprinTurf?