I know a bunch of people like that. I don't even talk to people about soccer to people. It's always very cursory, "Oh, so who do you think will win the world cup??" "Probably Brazil, Spain, Germany watch out for Argentina yeah
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It's not even like I know a lot about soccer (even though I do know a fair bit about soccer, I've decided I'll cut myself before I ever posit a legitimate opinion on anything pertaining to soccer. Mainly because I'm not a fukking pundit, also, on the internet you're either sounding like a budget Michael Cox or you're not saying anything new or novel. I'd rather just try joke after joke to see if anything sticks at all than try to talk about whether or not Arsene should buy a striker, whether Moyes was the right choice, who gives a fukk. It's all the same posters, we all have our roles, fukk giving actual opinions.)
That's why the coli is so terrible. From trolling one of the playoffs thread I've learned that (1) people really don't know all that much about sports (2) on the coli people come to find legitimate sports dialogue when in reality they're only finding other inept mugs to talk about the same non-talking points as them. There isn't a poster worth their salt outside of this thread. I mean that.
I've perused the threads, it eerily mirrors real life. I have never meet people in real life who are breaking down NFL games into defensive schemes, strategies, it's always the most obvious things anyone can muster. And you listen to the commentary for any given game (I've actually watched my fair bit of playoff football this year) and it's so basic and full of fukkwittery that it's no coincidence.