I'm done writing tab stories! YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

I understand football being bigger than soccer in your area but that's not the case everywhere.

I'm just sick of the knee-jerk reactions of "soccer is bad" and "if girls are playing a sport, it's torture to watch."

 

Fuck tabs.

 

I'll take football and even basketball over spring sports in a heartbeat.

Football games are once a week, volleyball is easy to cover, and we get e-mailed XC results in the fall. Basketball and soccer are the only things going for the whole month of January locally (powerlifting doesn't count).

But in the spring, it's balls-to-the-wall starting with National Signing Day and continuing all the way until the last baseball or softball team is ousted in the playoffs.

You have basketball playoffs in February, then in March, you get soccer playoffs and softball and baseball tournaments where teams could play six games in a weekend. You get settled into a Tuesday-Friday routine for a few weeks, then you get hit with district golf and tennis tournaments, and district track is right behind that. Invariably, we have teams go to region and state in all those sports.

Fall rules and spring drools. (Note lack of smiley.)

 

If I'm doing game coverage, I'd rather watch a softball game than baseball. Prep baseball is basically T-ball on a bigger field. My disbelief wasn't that spnited had to put out a girls soccer tab, but that the boys and girls soccer tabs weren't incorporated into one tab. A separate tab for each?

I'm curious, though. Where would soccer be a bigger deal than football?

 

Football_Bat, you cut to the core of me.

 

That's what I figured.

 

If you're talking U.S., though, there would be very few places. Research Triangle, maybe? Perhaps the Rio Grande Valley, but football is still very popular there, even though the teams there mostly suck.

 

Soccer will be big at schools that don't have the enrollment/money to support football, if both are fall sports in the state. I've also heard rumors of East Coast areas where soccer is the big sport played under the lights on Fridays.

Different things are big in different areas. West Texas? Of course you're doing a football tab. Washington? Of course you're doing a wrestling tab. SoCal? Of course you're giving water polo a lot of play. Maryland? Ditto lacrosse.

 

The Valley sucks, indeed.

They have high school water polo in Cali? That's frightening.

 

Why is it frightening? They have high school badminton in Illinois.

 

The bigger the paper, the less people care about soccer. Boys and girls both.