Reader comments: Real Salt Lake: Reserves down Houston in goalfest

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Utefan | 11:14 a.m. July 5, 2008
Maybe RSL should teach their players how to score.
"Team this round thing is a ball, and you have to kick it past the goalie into the goal, is that so hard?"
Jaggers | 12:44 p.m. July 5, 2008
Utefan go read a throwball article.
He never will. . . | 12:56 p.m. July 5, 2008
Instead, he will make RSL stories more popular so that the paper will print more.

Thanks Utefan!
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Re;jaggers | 1:07 p.m. July 5, 2008
All soccer fans stop calling football throwball, in fact many teams run alot in football. Unless you are Texas Tech, you use running backs.
lol | 1:39 p.m. July 5, 2008
It is throwball. That is what the rest of the world calls it. Also, "alot" is actually "a lot." English!
Re: jaggers | 11:05 a.m. July 6, 2008
And "running" backs don't actually run much either. 100 yards is considered a bangup performance. Footballers run close to 10,000.
Ryan | 7:41 a.m. July 7, 2008
Here we go again, huh?

Laaaaaammmmmmeeeee.

Apparantly this whole "futbol vs football" thing is still entertaining you morons, so you go ahead and continue on with your whizzing contest.

The more enlightened of us will just sit back and enjoy BOTH sports.
Yura.... | 9:56 a.m. July 7, 2008
...so you can score in Reserve games? Why do you stink it up so much against the real deal? Oh...'cause you are just a reserve player...gotcha.
Utefan | 5:48 p.m. July 7, 2008
In my quest to berate RSL, I have surveyed over 100 people from all over the valley with three different surveys.
Survey 1: What is your favorite sport?
Football 44%
Basketball 37%
Baseball 12%
Golf 3%
hockey 1%
Soccer 1%
Other 2%
Survey 2: Rank the sports teams in Utah (average rankings)
1. Utah Jazz
2. Utah Utes
3. BYU Cougars
4. Salt Lake Bees
5. Utah Blaze
6. RSL
7. Lightning Lacrosse
Survey 3: Questions about RsL
1. Do RSL deserve a new stadium?
NO 86%
Yes 11%
Don't Care 3%

2. What internationally famous player should RSL aquire to make them better?
Cristiano Ronaldo 38%
David Beckham 35%
Mia Hamm 24%
Ronaldhino 2%
Other 1%

3. What is your beef with RSL?
Stadium 65%
Losing 17%
Lack of scoring 10%
No beef 5%
other 3%
Survey about Utefan | 6:00 p.m. July 7, 2008
Here is a dumb survey about Utefan
1. Utefan is
a) a nerdy loner who has no life
b) a closet RSL fan
c) a Ute fan in denial
Wow Utefan... | 10:46 a.m. July 8, 2008
...that must have taken alot of time.

I wonder if there is a more productive thing you could have done with your time?
Re: Utefan | 11:13 a.m. July 8, 2008
Asking yourself the question a hundred times is not considered a survey
Re: Re: Jaggers | 11:13 a.m. July 8, 2008
So instead of throwball we should call it runball, got ya
Anonymous | 11:37 a.m. July 8, 2008
It should be throwball since only one position kicks the ball every once in a great while. Thanks, Utefan, for the survey. I'm so sure it was unbiased, as all your proclamations are!
CMcAfee | 11:55 a.m. July 8, 2008
Was that survey your sixth grade research project? Your mother should be proud.

I just did a quick survey around the office with your questions for the following results:
Question 1: Kind of a landslide.
Soccer: 95%
Other: 5%

Question 2:
RSL
Jazz
Cougers
Utes
Bees
Blaze
Lightning (Who?)

Questions 3 I am not going to report due to the number of different responses. One person named Cristiano, but nobody else on your list appeared.

Question 4:
Lack of finishing was a common response, but most people did not understand the question.

CONCLUSION:
Unscientific surveys will give you unscientific results 100% of the time.
Jaggers | 12:55 p.m. July 8, 2008
What a biased survey. Who are the Lightning Lacrosse? I am not sure you know 10 people let alone 100.
Great survey! | 4:38 p.m. July 8, 2008
It cracks me up that Utefan takes so much time to prepare these posts. I have to admit though, Utefan does make things entertaining for us soccer fans. I appreciate the laughs Utefan. Just a note, I highly doubt Utah ranks higher than BYU in this state. I like Utah, but they are not #2. SL Bees don't have a fan base, so you must have gone to the SL Bees game for this survey. I could go on and on about Utefans faulty survey, but I will let him relish in his masterpiece survey:) Utefan, do you have a job besides blogging all day?
TO UTEFAN | 8:41 p.m. July 8, 2008
Why don't you get a life. GO read a throwball article.
Re: To Utefan | 9:31 p.m. July 8, 2008
It's is not throwball it is football. Can you soccer fans get through your thick skulls. Utefan you are making all of us other Ute fans look like idiots.
Throwball | 9:39 a.m. July 9, 2008
It is more like throwball than football? Just a poll question for all you haters. Where in the heck did they come up with calling that game football? Where? How? It makes no sense?

If you look it up, American Football came from people that got football and rugby mixed up. The truth hurts. It was misnamed in the begining, back in the 1800s. So, why do you still want your sport to be misnamed? If I was an american football fan, I would call it something else that makes sense. Something like throwball, tackleball, boringball...

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