3kzisfootball
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One thing that comes up again and again in these 'sokkah vs. football' debates that regularly come up in these forums is the messianic beliefs of some of the mono-codal supporters of each code. It is really like religion. Both sides believe strongly that their code is so superior that if only people would really be exposed to it they would ditch what they were following at the moment and see the true light and shout 'thank you Lord! I saw the light and I am saved!' as they go to the stadium.
Let's take the Association Football ones (aka soccer).
Their argument tend to rely on the fact that because AF is the most popular football code in the world it is proof that it is better. Well that's no real argument. Mac Donald hamburgers are also probably the most popular fast food in the world, but that does not make it necessarily better either.
They also believe that because it is the most popular sport it is 'inevitable' that it will 'take over ze world!' Like a huge jaggernaut it will overcome any other code to become the true world code.
Sounds like Germany pre invasion Poland 1939.
Usually people who thinks like this have often being belittled at school etc. by AFL loving students and teachers for their love of AF. So they are waiting in the darkness of their bedrooms for the day when their game will be taken over by the world game. 'Ah ah! 'they will shout. 'What has happened to your little insignificant game now! Bwaahhhha! Revenge is sweet!'
Maybe some therapy to move on may be useful. Or perhaps a big G-E-T a L-I-F-E.
Now we come from the AFL messianics. Again they believe that Australian Rules Football (ARF) is the best code in 'The whole frigging world!' and are deeply resentful that what they believe is an inferior game gets so much attention.
They can be deeply insecure, as we see everytime AF gets some attention (A-League finals, World Cups) as they come out and tell us really original things such as 'Soccer is boring - 0-0 scoreline etc.', 'Players are weak and dive all the time', spectators riot because the game is so dull' etc. etc. I am sure you can fill the rest. We have heard it so many times.
Interestingly people that say these things are also happy to sit through five days (let alone 90 minutes) of a cricket match where not much happens and ends up in a draw (but that's for another argument).
As the soccer messianics they believe that only if people overseas would get exposed to the ARF they would all realise that they have been wasting their time on that dull weak as piss code and would rush to set up ARF clubs everywhere.
Often when someone says 'But ARF is played only in Australia' they immediately state that it is not true, it is played in many countries. But the fact remains that while some people outside Australia may play it it will remain as popular as Lacrosse it is here.
We regularly read soppy stories about how ARF is resolving the poverty of Black South Africans and resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but let's face it, it will remain an exotic curiosity outside our country. All the talk about ARF becoming popular overseas has a degree of pathos about it.
Me? Well I am hoping that Melbourne Victory makes the finals, the Association Football National team makes the World Cup and I am really looking forward to a resurgent Carlton next year.
Let's take the Association Football ones (aka soccer).
Their argument tend to rely on the fact that because AF is the most popular football code in the world it is proof that it is better. Well that's no real argument. Mac Donald hamburgers are also probably the most popular fast food in the world, but that does not make it necessarily better either.
They also believe that because it is the most popular sport it is 'inevitable' that it will 'take over ze world!' Like a huge jaggernaut it will overcome any other code to become the true world code.
Sounds like Germany pre invasion Poland 1939.
Usually people who thinks like this have often being belittled at school etc. by AFL loving students and teachers for their love of AF. So they are waiting in the darkness of their bedrooms for the day when their game will be taken over by the world game. 'Ah ah! 'they will shout. 'What has happened to your little insignificant game now! Bwaahhhha! Revenge is sweet!'
Maybe some therapy to move on may be useful. Or perhaps a big G-E-T a L-I-F-E.
Now we come from the AFL messianics. Again they believe that Australian Rules Football (ARF) is the best code in 'The whole frigging world!' and are deeply resentful that what they believe is an inferior game gets so much attention.
They can be deeply insecure, as we see everytime AF gets some attention (A-League finals, World Cups) as they come out and tell us really original things such as 'Soccer is boring - 0-0 scoreline etc.', 'Players are weak and dive all the time', spectators riot because the game is so dull' etc. etc. I am sure you can fill the rest. We have heard it so many times.
Interestingly people that say these things are also happy to sit through five days (let alone 90 minutes) of a cricket match where not much happens and ends up in a draw (but that's for another argument).
As the soccer messianics they believe that only if people overseas would get exposed to the ARF they would all realise that they have been wasting their time on that dull weak as piss code and would rush to set up ARF clubs everywhere.
Often when someone says 'But ARF is played only in Australia' they immediately state that it is not true, it is played in many countries. But the fact remains that while some people outside Australia may play it it will remain as popular as Lacrosse it is here.
We regularly read soppy stories about how ARF is resolving the poverty of Black South Africans and resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but let's face it, it will remain an exotic curiosity outside our country. All the talk about ARF becoming popular overseas has a degree of pathos about it.
Me? Well I am hoping that Melbourne Victory makes the finals, the Association Football National team makes the World Cup and I am really looking forward to a resurgent Carlton next year.
