I need to convince my friends that soccer is a real sport so I devised some tests to help. Will these work?

1. Begin playing a game of soccer and time how long it takes spectators to fall asleep or start doing crossword puzzles. 2. Show how the soccer method of breaking ties can be carried to other sports i.e. boxing, after the match is declared a draw each boxer gets to take one free swing at the other boxer. This continues until a winner is declared. 3. Have a group of soccer kids run up and down the field waving to their grandparents and test whether it is imperative that soccer players pay attention to the ball being kicked. 4. Test whether the upper half of a top soccer players body atrophies from lack of use.

Public Comments

1. a sport is just when you are active, the info u have doent tell a thing i play and played soccer my whole life, i am on the girls school team....IT IS A SPORT!!!
2. Wow, Jenny..... really impressive. You should be on TV.
3. I know it's a sport it's just not a popular American sport.
4. I think your veiws on soccer are a bit nieve. I hope you know that soccer is one of the most watched sports in the world and that it makes millions no sorry billions each year. I take it you are american because you call it soccer as we call it football and considering the americans havn't won jackshiz with football then you don't reall know what its about so maybe you should get into a real team like Glasgow Rangers and then you will know that it is the greatest sport in the world
5. FIRST OFF THE GAME IS CALLED FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER!!!
6. I sure hope that they work! I think that you are exactly right!!! Good luck!
7. Hey jackass. Wat do the base runners do in a 15 minute inning in baseball? Wat do Backstops do if it is called a sport ? Just sit there and shit? Look at baseball players. They're fat asses not athletes. Offensive linemen in football don't even touch the ball most of the time. Talking about real sport huh? Look at the offensive and defensive linemens. Wats their training regimen? "Gee, Lets gobble down 3 McD half pounders. No, Lets eat Burger king today."
8. Hahaha. Do you know a THING about football??? This is humorous, but first maybe you should like search youtube or something, and find out what soccer really is. But good luck anyways with your convincing friends.
9. wow what do you think is a real sport, cheerleading? or maybe ballet dancing? Soccer aka FOOTBALL is the world's sport.
10. Feck off you patronizing b**ch. Go play your retarded american sports and keep your opinions to yourself.
11. Weird and uneccesary tests. Interest has to come from the guts.....so just see or don't be. That's the acid test....but I know females who initiate their interest....not on the game but who is playing?? Beckham; Ronaldo; Rolanldino; Messi; ...need I say more?!
12. Thank you. What you have accomplished, in no small measure, my fellow American, is, once again, proving to the world-at-large, that Yanks are complete ersehats when it comes to football. May you wear your erse firmly about your shoulders and be an inspiration to others of your kind, that you too can prove without a doubt, that we Yanks can be the most ignant shiteheads about.
13. Why don't you leave her in the dark !
14. Meh. Guess it bothers most here in America that the rest of world is better at the most popular and athletically demanding of sports.
15. I think you may have hit a nerve.. It is obvious that you were kidding but I guess some soccer players can't seem to locate their sense of humor. The best weapon to use to fight humor is with humor so I am afraid you were attacking the unarmed.