@Gelderland
Nope, I don't watch soccer, and yes, it is soccer :P. As I described it elsewhere, I think soccer is like hockey, but where every time one crosses the blue line, every person on the ice (except the goalies, of course) has to sit down and do a major corporation's business taxes, and each person has to finish before they can continue to play. The offsides rule in soccer makes about that much sense, and the amount of pointless back and forth makes watching the game about as interesting as hockey would be if most of the time was spent watching them do taxes, not actually play. Soccer is fun to play, but it's absolutely excruciatingly boring to watch. Granted, it's more interesting than golf or Nascar, but saying something is more fun to watch than those two is like saying someone is more of a humanitarian than Pol Pot. And yes, most Americans share my opinion, albeit probably in slightly less flowery language.
The film was based on the book (which I read many years before the film came out), and the book was based (and not loosely, it's pretty faithful to the real story) on the real life story of a bunch of Uruguayan rugby players (oops, I thought it was soccer, but it's been about 25 years since I read it, the book is very memorable, but the sport that they played was a pretty minor point - I just looked it up, and it was rugby) whose plane crashed in the Andes. More than a third survived, even though they spent more than two months with almost no supplies at about 12,000 feet up on a snow covered mountain in the middle of nowhere. They survived by eating the people who died, which is why I thought the bite comment was a reference to that.
I like strategy games, too, especially the board game variety. I'm generally better at the strategy portion of sports than the physical part, although not from lack of trying :P.
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@Gelderland
Nope, I don't watch soccer, and yes, it is soccer :P. As I described it elsewhere, I think soccer is like hockey, but where every time one crosses the blue line, every person on the ice (except the goalies, of course) has to sit down and do a major corporation's business taxes, and each person has to finish before they can continue to play. The offsides rule in soccer makes about that much sense, and the amount of pointless back and forth makes watching the game about as interesting as hockey would be if most of the time was spent watching them do taxes, not actually play. Soccer is fun to play, but it's absolutely excruciatingly boring to watch. Granted, it's more interesting than golf or Nascar, but saying something is more fun to watch than those two is like saying someone is more of a humanitarian than Pol Pot. And yes, most Americans share my opinion, albeit probably in slightly less flowery language.
The film was based on the book (which I read many years before the film came out), and the book was based (and not loosely, it's pretty faithful to the real story) on the real life story of a bunch of Uruguayan rugby players (oops, I thought it was soccer, but it's been about 25 years since I read it, the book is very memorable, but the sport that they played was a pretty minor point - I just looked it up, and it was rugby) whose plane crashed in the Andes. More than a third survived, even though they spent more than two months with almost no supplies at about 12,000 feet up on a snow covered mountain in the middle of nowhere. They survived by eating the people who died, which is why I thought the bite comment was a reference to that.
I like strategy games, too, especially the board game variety. I'm generally better at the strategy portion of sports than the physical part, although not from lack of trying :P.