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Soccer. This game is completely foreign to me. The rules? I couldn't tell you one of them. All those white lines on the field. Yeah I couldn't tell you what any of those a for either. The one thing I do know is that there is a goalie who tries to not let the ball get passed them.
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Decisions decisions. I'm a new student to Rowan University so I should obviously be cheering for my team. However, my best friend plays on the Rutgers soccer team. So who do I cheer for?? I decided I would cheer for both. Either way I'd be happy, if my friend won or if my school won.
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Don't get me wrong, I love sports. I've grown up with three brothers. I've grown up watching them and playing them. However, soccer just doesn't catch my attention. It's boring. I don't understand a thing about it. The entire game the refs kept blowing the whistle and I couldn't figure out why!!
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The fact that I was watching the clock the whole time shows that I really didn't want to be there. The season premiere of Law and Order SVU was coming on at 9 and I was more concerned with getting home in time for that rather then watching the game. Yeah, I guess thats whats more important to me.
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All it is, is back and forth back and forth. Kicking the ball back and forth to your teammates. Running back and forth from one side of the field to the other. No one is scoring. It's just one big old boring game.
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I expected there to be maybe 20 to 30 people at the game. My assumption was wrong. To my surprise, the bleachers were filled. One side was filled with Rowan fans, ranging from families to students to youth soccer teams. The other side was filled with Rutgers families and fans.
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If a medium size ball came flying towards my head there is no question about it, I would be ducking to get out of the way. But these girls use their heads and hit the ball. I say they are crazy because it looks like it seriously hurts. Can't you get a concussion from doing that all the time???
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Now things are starting to get a little interesting. Times is running out in the first half and the players of each team are determined to score. THey are running faster and kicking harder. One of the Rowan players breaks away with the ball, she shoots and the crowd goes crazy. But BOOM, the soccer ball hits the pole instead. I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't disappointed.
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My friends has been playing soccer all of her life. She was given the fantastic opportunity to play for a college team. Her dad has always made it to every one of her games, even when they are far away. He stood in the top corner of the bleachers with his video camera recording his little girl play, like he always does.
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There was a group of about 17 girls with their coaches and parents sitting in front of us. Their head coach kept yelling at them because they weren't paying attention. The reason they were paying attention was because there was a group of Rowan football players sitting in front of them. Hey, I cant blame them. I wouldn't want to pay attention to the game either.
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Of course I wasn't paying attention right when the first goal of the game was scored AND it was also scored by Rowan. Go Rowan!! It was my natural instinct to cheer!
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My friend and I were sitting there when all of the sudden we both started sniffing our noses. Mmmmm what was that smell? We couldn't quite figure it out but then we realized it smelled like hot dogs. However, we couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from. All i know is that it smelled delicious.
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Rowan scored 2 more times making the score 3 nothing! I don't like soccer but I'm pretty excited my school is winning.
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Soccer still isn't my thing. But I can put up with going to a few games to support my fellow classmates and my best friend.
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