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So, I Understand There’s Some Sort Of Soccer Thing Going On?

Written By : John Hawkins

I initially became aware there was some sort of soccer series, bowl, contest, kick-off — whatever they call it — going on because when I was scanning for links for Linkiest, I kept running across pictures of soccer hotties:

Soccer hottie
Viva la socialism ball hotties!

While I did peruse several of these “articles” (does a post full of nothing but pictures of hot women who like soccer really count as an article?), I didn’t take the time to find out what event inspired the posts.

Nothing against soccer, but if I wanted to be bored to sleep, I’d still be working for someone else and falling asleep in meetings (Yes, really). What can I say? I’m really just not cut out for handling tedium…and let’s be honest, I’m pretty sure soccer is a tedious sport.

I say pretty sure because I’ve never actually watched a game, although I vaguely remember playing one season of Boy’s Club soccer as a kid. Oddly, I can’t remember ANYTHING about the season at all; so my assumption is that it was so dull my brain has blocked it out to protect me.

So, I just sort of assume this depiction from The Simpsons, back before it jumped the shark, is a pretty accurate depiction of what goes on,

Now, you may be saying, “Ok, if soccer bores you so much, why are you writing about it at all?” Well, last night a friend of mine forwarded me a post about conservatives and soccer and suggested I write about it. So, I looked at the article, read about five lines, got bored because it was soccer, and lost interest. However, because I’m dedicated, after I started writing this piece, I cranked up some DMX to counteract the soccer boredom and went back to read the whole piece.

Long story short, there were a couple of conservatives trying to come up with political explanations for why so many Americans don’t like soccer. I have a simpler explanation: It’s really slow, really boring, and nobody knows or cares who the players are.

Is that a cop out? Should I give you socio-political explanation? Ok, here’s one: America has done so much that we don’t need to get validation as a nation from how well our team does in a sports tournament — unless it’s Mortal Kombat. If that actually existed and we weren’t making up most of the team there, I think we’d feel like we weren’t doing our part.

So, enjoy your soccer thing world — and PS, I’m assuming America has a team entered and I do hope we win. Not because I care about winning, but because it would be TRULY DELICIOUS to pull off a victory in a sport we don’t care about, while the rest of the world is frothing at the mouth over it.

PS #2: If somehow an American team does end up in the championship thing, I do promise to watch the game for 5 minutes before I get exasperated with the fact that nothing’s happening and watch a DVR’d episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force instead.

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Jymn

Quite a heady article. Points scored by your fine research, so indicative of the usual conservative dedication to facts and research.

Bthewolf

Or maybe it almost all sarcasm, and your ability to see that in John's words is representitive of liberal dedication to stupidity.

happi

The reasons are simple:
1. If we want to watch a long boring sport – we have baseball.
2. If we want action and strategy – we have football.
3. If we want overpaid, hotdogging, primping athletes, we have basketball.
4. If we want to keep turning our head left to right and then back, we have hockey.

That's enough for anybody!
the_hawk

I don't have anything against soccer so much as I do the fans. They seem to come in two varieties: the hooligan/stampeding/crazy hordes, or the snobby, we're oh so much more enlightened than you neanderthal Americans and your Neanderthal sports. I've watched some soccer and I've played some soccer, but I don't apologize for having no enthusiasm for it. If you do love soccer, how about just enjoying it and stop trying to force it down my throat. To each their own.

Mahatma

Oooooh. Have you ever seen the Brazilian women celebrating? They constitute a third variety! LOL

the_hawk

Mahatma, I cannot dispute your assertion because I do love Brazilian women for sure! I might just watch some World Cup after all…

baoxian

There are some good things about the World Cup.

The Mexican team qualified and is in South Africa, which means 11 less people trying to jump the border.

The North Korean team will lose and be executed by Kim Jong Il, so there will be less of them to worry about.

If Greece wins they can use the money to pay off some of their debt.

Diego Maradonna will probably run the Argentinian team like Scarface, must-see TV.

The United States and England get to pound on the one Islamic country that qualified (Algeria).
Fiza

If you are bored with soccer, or any othe sport on TV, or even FOX Pravda news, you can always get the movie “invictus” and pop it into your DVD player. If you haven't heard about or seen the movie, Morgan Freeman does a fantastic job playing (comrade) Mandella during his first term as president of South Africa, where all this boring soccer stuff is now taking place. You might even learn something about South Africa and Rugby.

PS, I bet some of you are pissed off at Kowalski, er, I meant Clint Eastwood for being “brainwashed” to make that movie.

TheDickNixon

Can you provide some examples of Fox lying in it's news coverage? Thanks.

Soccer is for punks. Rugby is for men. They are two differing sports Kowalski, or at least that was the name you used on the RWN forums when they were up.

Fiza

I said FOX Pravda, Tricky Dicky! Didn't I define previously what “pravda” means. To review, it means “right” or “true” in Polish, Russian, or most other slavic languages. So here I give FOX news a complement and you claim I say that FOX news was lying? Yup, you are definitely like President Nixon, that is, suspicious of everything and everyone. Pravda? Do you check under you bed every night for liberals?

Getting back to business here, the classic FOX news lie was it's inflamatory report that Obama was educated in an Islamic Madrass in Indonesia. What did FOX say when the story was proven to be wrong? I already quoted FOX's reponse recently in a previous thread. FOX claims they merely repated a story in a Washington Times magazine. Sure! Now the majority of FOX regulars, including you, still believe Obama was educated in a Madrass. Pravda?

TheDickNixon

Pravda was the mouthpiece of the old USSR, one of your favorite country's. Flagged for threadjack regarding Obama's islamic background, which the Clinton 2008 team publicized.

Fiza

Clintoon 2008 team? Sure, FOX news gets caught for falsely labeling a public school Obama attended in Indonesia as a Madrass. First FOX claim they merely repeated the story first published in a “Washington Times” magazine. Then FOX blames Clinton for the false story.
Dick_Nixon, of course, still believes the school is a Madrass, and that Obama was “brainwashed” into an communist Islamic terrorist. Dick_Nixon actually believes that Obama intends to convert America into a non secular, communist Islamic country under Sharia law.

Pravda, Dick_Nixon?

Trench_Raider

Off topic trolling by a known troll and serial liar flagged.

TR

Mahatma

Rugby is for Faux Men. Curling is for real men.

UFKA_Smithwick

A lot of hate for foxnews. You guys have the other 99% of the media in your hands, why begrudge us the remaining 1%?

Do you really need an absolute monopoly to feel secure?
Trench_Raider

The likelyhood of you learning anything about South African history from a movie that lionizes a terrorist is pretty damned low, troll boy. And yes, Mandella was a terrorist.

Actually I'm suprised that there has not been more violence at this world cup given the horrific state of the country now (thanks ANC) and the crime ridden cess pit a city that Johannesburg is in recent years.

Oh yes, and just to help out the newer members who don't know this clown. Fiza is a known troll and serial liar. (one only has to look at the snarky tone of his posts in this very thread to see that he's just trying to disrupt) He's also not a legitimate member of this forum as he is not registered.
Just so you know, Fiza. You can be banned and blocked from the Disqus system even if you do not register. I'm still confirming it, but it recently happened to two of your fellow trolls here. Just so you know.

TR

Mahatma

Are you allowed to call posters names? If so why can you?

Trench_Raider

It's not name calling to point out the fact that you are a troll (your actions confrim that) and that you are not a legitimate member of this forum.

TR

Mahatma

I was talking about calling Fiza a serial liar. Who died and left you in charge?
Trench_Raider

Aw how cute! The trolls are standing up for each other!

Fiza IS serial liar as he's been caught in many lies here, including at least one by me. The dude has zero credibility. Once again it's not “name calling” if it's true.

Who died and left you in charge?

Fortunately for you, no one. If I were running something you would be gone by now.

TR
Mahatma

Don't like entertaining different opinions, do we?
Trench_Raider

Nope.
I have no troubles with oppsing views. There are a number of well behaved leftists I get along with. (You know that as you are a sock puppet who has posted here before) I just hate trolls, idiots, and sock puppets. You are all three.

TR
Fiza

Anybody who doesn't hold your views is a liar. Did I ever make a mistake? Probably, along with most of the posters here. But did I lie? Only in your warped, FOX news (and other conservative news sites) brainwashed mind.
Trench_Raider

Hah.
Anyone who does nto hold my views is a liar? My wife is a liberal (although not a moonbat like you). I don't consider her a liar. That's yet another lie on your part.
You are a liar because you have been caught repeatedly in lies. You also troll and disrupt. You also are not a legitimate member of the forum.

Oh yes…..
“fox news!! fox news!! sqwaaaawwwkk!!!”
Get some new lines, child.

TR

D-Vega

Mandella was a terrorist?

Trench_Raider

Umm yes he was.

The ANC and it's millitant (read terrorist) arm Umkhonto we Sizwe were marxist backed terrorist organizations that were reasonsible for many many acts of terrorism and murders of innocent non-combatants. Despite what you might think of their cause or the goverment they opposed, there is no disputing this.

Look, apartheid was bad policy and should have been dismantled long before it was. I'm not defending it by any means. But I don't think the undeniably opressive policies of the pre-'94 South African goverment excuses the acts of brutal murder and terrorism on the part of the ANC.

Sorry Vega, but I have no respect for Mandella. As leader of the ANC he was complicit in their excesses. There is really no difference between Mandella and Mugabe other than the fact that eventually the world came around to what kind of thug Mugabe is and that for some god awful reason they gave a Nobel Peace Prize to Mandella.

TR

D-Vega

You are correct, TR. The ANC was guerilla military engaged in armed resistance, but their tactics are comparable now, as they were then, with what we would describe as terrorism.

It has to be looked at in context, but killing civilians to make your point is terrorism.
Trench_Raider

gg
Trench_Raider

Damn it. I hit the “post” button too fast and now Disqus won't let me edit this. I do like the new system, but it can be whonky at times.

Anyway….
So if you agree with my point, then why did you even bother to ask the question “Mandella was a terrorist”? Sometimes I think you engage in reflex contrarianism, Vega.

TR
D-Vega

No, TR. I had to read more about the ANC is all.
Trench_Raider

I figured it might be something like that. You probably saw my intial post calling Mandella a terrorist and took knee-jerk offence to it. But then you took time to actually google it and saw that I was correct.

I don't blame you for it and I won't crow about being right. Sadly most Americans are pretty ignorant about South Africa and the nature of the ANC because of the extremely one sided news coverage that occured pre-'94 which universally depicted the ANC as poor put upon “freedom fighters” and the goverment as evil monsters. Most Americans have never even heard of Umkhonto we Sizwe for example. Then there is the sad phemonenon in that many people completely shut down any objectivity or rational thought the moment you mention pre-'94 South Africa. We saw this in action in a recent thread were I mentioned the old South African Defence Forces.

My last word on the subject (for now) is this: Mandella was a terrorist. The South African goverment put him in prison for a reason and it was not just for being a disident opposed to aparthied. (most disident leaders in fact were NOT imprisioned) Likewise he was on the US terorist watch list for a reason. Given our opposition to the apartheid goverment do you REALLY think that he would be on that list were he just a harmless political prisoner?

TR
Fiza

Sorry you feel the way you against Mandela. I guess you don't like Morgan Freeman or Clint Eastwood anymore for their portrail of Nelson Mandela.
For an unbiased view of Mandela, why don't you look up PBS Frintline's special omn Mandela. Frontline has a nice timeline. You will find that Mandela was first arrested after organized a campaign of mass organized resistance in 1952. The Frontline special may clear your mind of right wing propaganda.
I wonder what you think of Menachem Begin, who was at one time was labeled a “terrorist” by the British government. Begin's militia blew up the King David hotel in 1946, killing 91 people.
Trench_Raider

“Frontline” is NOT an unbiased source.

Mandella was head of the ANC. The ANC was a terrorist organization. Mandella never distanced himself from that organization. Ergo he's as guilty as they are even though most of their terrorism was commited while he was in prison. It's simple really.

As for Begin, what's your point? It's well known I'm no big fan of Israel and I'm quite aware that the Israelis were involved in an anti-British terrorism campaign in the late '40s. Was that a poorly thought out attempt to paint me as a hypocrite or some other gotcha? Well, it didn't work, son.

Ok, that's enough for right now. The troll and serial liar (not to mention illegitimate unregistered poster) Fiza has threadjacked enough.

TR

UFKA_Smithwick

I've never understood the love some people have for this sport.

I get that it has wide appeal because it's fairly simple, all you need is a ball and an open space. So the start up costs are minimal as opposed to say baseball or hockey. But other than that it's pretty dull.

And yet every year people riot and kill each other over a few people kicking a ball around a field (and on rare occasions scoring a point). We have riots here over sports results sure. But nothing in comparison to the frequency and intensity of soccer riots in the rest of the world.

Makes no sense.
Trench_Raider

The only reason at all that soccer enjoys any widespread popularity herein the US is due to the increased amount of (mostly illegal) third world immigration. prior to the last two or three decades there was not much of a market for soccer coverage here. If the immigration problem ever gets scaled back you will see a lowering in the popularity of this sport.

Me? I don't care either way about soccer. To be honest I'm not much of a fan of any professional sport. Just not my thing.

TR

Mahatma

I think you are wrong, Trenchie. Thanks to immigration to this country by people hoping to better their life we have been exposed to what the rest of the world already knew- soccer/futbal is a great, great sport. It inspires passion and pride (remember how you felt about the Miracle on Ice?). That is the passion the rest of the world feels about soccer.

Bthewolf

Passion and pride, ever seen football fans at a game? Or baseball fans?

Soccer is watered down version of rugby, removing most of the challenge and excitment for 'safety'. Sport was invented to be an extension the training people did for survival, whether it was jousting and fencing or the origianl Olympics with distance running and javelin throwing.

Mahatma

Passion and pride, ever seen football fans at a game? Or baseball fans?

Yep. And they pale in comparison with soccer fans.

“Sport was invented to be an extension the training people did for survival”

So was the wheel, but we've moved beyond that. Soccer requires
running continuously for 90 minutes. I'd say that is pretty good endurance training for battle.

Mahatma

I think the reason many conservatives pooh-pooh the sport is that the U.S. isn't the biggest, baddest country on the globe. I root for us, but accept as probably fitting that we get our come-uppance every four years.

Trench_Raider

“fitting that we get our come-uppance “

That really does sum up nicely how the left feels about this country, doesn't it? Thanks for articulating what many of your idelogical brothers think but dare not say. It doesn't make it any less disgusting or make you any less of a troll, but it is refreshingly honest.

TR

D-Vega

You are incorrect regarding illegals, TR.

Nearly all of the immigrant groups that like soccer are here legally, as most immigrants that come to the U.S. come here legally.

Trench_Raider

Ok, fair enough.
I withdraw the “illegal” part of my post. Allow me to ammend it as follows:

The increased popularity of soccer in recent years in the US is mainly due to unchecked mass third world immigration. if in the unlikely instance that the immigration trends of the last few decades are reversed you will see a similar decrease in the popularity of the game.

TR

Mahatma

unchecked mass third world immigration.

I would dare to hope you would be man enough to do the same if you had had the misfortune of being born in a third world country.

Trench_Raider

Perhaps.
If I did decide to immigrate to civilized country I would respect the laws of that country enough to follow the correct procedures rather than become a criminal.

In any event, living in the US is a privilage, it's not a right. We ashould nto be in the business of taking in every stray that comes along.

TR

RtWingNtCase

I've never understood the ranting or hatred that some have of soccer. I enjoy the game; others don't. To me, if you don't like it, then don't watch it. But some seem to go out of their way to bash it.

Yes, the pace can be slow at times(much like baseball), and I think it's the lack of scoring that most Americans can't get past, but why do you care so much? Just ignore it.

Tom_pinko_Delay

It provides an opportunity for some Americans to show how much they don't care what the rest of the world thinks.

CoolCzech

And it provides an opportunity for other so-called Americans to show how much more worldly and “sophisticated” they are than their fellow countrymen are by disdaining them for not going ga-ga over what is just a game.

mightysamurai

But some seem to go out of their way to bash it.

And some seem to go out of their way to bash people who don't care for it. That, for those who were paying attention, is the point.

RtWingNtCase

mightysamurai,

I re-read John's post. It seemed to be more of a “I think soccer is stupid” post than a “I get bashed by people who don't care for it.” Couldn't find anything about people bashing him, just more of “soccer is boring and I don't like it.” I'm wondering if it's so boring, then why do those who purport to not like it spend so much time disparaging it? The opposite of love isn't hate – it's indifference. I would think that if he didn't care for it all that much, he simply wouldn't write about it.

Also, the post does make one glaringly false assertion – “America has done so much that we don't need to get validation as a nation from how well our team does in a sports tournament — unless it's Mortal Kombat.” If that was the case, there'd have been no Dream Team, Redeem Team, or Miracle on Ice. Americans care just as much, but only about sports which most of us care about(although, admittedly, the Baseball World Championship doesn't carry the fanfare I thought it would). That's all about the drive to be the best, which Americans care VERY much about – I even thought that was one of the driving forces behind conservatism.

Yes, it's very hard to get into soccer, especially when you don't have an emotional stake in one of the sides, but the same can be said of baseball. I can get into a football game or basketball game without needing to care about either of the teams, but can't do the same for either baseball or hockey.

It just seems that an awful lot of people are writing about something they claim to not give a shit about.

The_Fech

If it makes you feel any better, I think baseball is just as boring as soccer and will make fun of fans of both.

huckupchuck

Good point about Baseball being slow and boring to watch. It is. And what's more is that we tend to glorify baseball even more the more boring it is (i.e. a no-hitter or a “perfect” game – 27 up, 27 down). And yet it's baseball — even more so than Football or Basketball — that is defined as the quintessential American sport (Remember that ditty: “baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet”?). And even more ironic is the fact that professional baseball in the U.S. Major Leagues is dominated more and more by foreigners and Hispanic immigrants. Ever look at a baseball roster these days?
CoolCzech

But that's exactly the point, guy! Most Americans DO ignore it.

But The Left just can't stand that.

D-Vega

Soccer is a little boring and not a traditional American sport.

But the one thing that soccer is doing is growing year over year. Something that sports like hockey and basketball are not.

Soccer is growing because of immigrants, but even more so it's growing because kids are playing soccer at a much higher rate because parents don't want their kids to get hurt, and it's cheaper to have soccer in school because of the facilities/equipment and insurance.

Americans always want to poo poo soccer as not a good sport or a not a sport at all. And then we cherish things like NASCAR, which are less of a sport than soccer is (and generally as boring) or pro-wrestling, which is not a sport at all, but choreographed entertainment.

The real reason why we diss soccer so much is because we are so bad at it.

I don't really like soccer, but I don't really like basketball anymore or hockey or NASCAR.

The real American sports are Football, Baseball, Golf and Billiards.

There is plenty of room for soccer, though.

And in the future when we are all Muslim Chinese-speaking Americans who look Hispanic, then maybe it will be America's #1 sport.

mightysamurai

Americans always want to poo poo soccer as not a good sport or a not a sport at all. And then we cherish things like NASCAR, which are less of a sport than soccer is (and generally as boring) or pro-wrestling, which is not a sport at all, but choreographed entertainment.

That's your argument? Why not compare soccer to Broadway drama or television while you're at it. It'd be just as valid.

D-Vega

Pro-wrestling would be more comparable to Broadway than soccer.

Soccer is a real competitive, popular, long lasting sport.

My point is that even though we don't prefer it, or like it, doesn't mean it's not worthwhile or a good sport.

mightysamurai

Pro-wrestling would be more comparable to Broadway than soccer.

Yes. That. Is. My. Point.

Your comparison is complete nonsense. You're comparing something that isn't a sport, and which everyone knows isn't a sport, to the actual sport of soccer.

You have skedaddled past comparing apples to oranges, D-Vega. You're officially comparing apples to pipe wrenches.

Trench_Raider

And in the future when we are all Muslim Chinese-speaking Americans who look Hispanic, then maybe it will be America's #1 sport.

Please tell me that's a joke…

TR

D-Vega

Yes, TR.

Everyone knows that we'll be speaking Spanish, as it's much easier to learn than Chinese.

CoolCzech

But I thought you liberals wanted us to be just like the French, D-Vega!

Can you imagine the French allowing French to be supplanted by Spanish in France and not caring less?

I mean, do you have ANY emotional attachment whatsoever to your own culture, language, and nationality, D-Vega? Does the Star Spangled Banner mean anything to you? Do you get a lump in your throat when the Battle Hymn of the Republic is played? Or is it really all the same to you, as long as the welfare check gives you your “entitlement,” regardless of the denomination?

God, Wife, and Country, D-Vega, in that country. For your own sake, be wary of anyone that is completely blase about those three fundamental values.

CoolCzech

Some of us are sophisticated enough to understand that a nation is as much defined by culture as by mere geographic boundaries, D-Vega. In the future this land may be inhabited by people that only speak Chinese and are Muslim, but they will be no more “Americans” than the people that today live along the Mediterranean are “Romans.”

I suppose you & Mahatma think such people, if they force their women to wear burkas and treat them much as the Taliban treat theirs, would at least have the saving grace of not being “Ugly Americans.”

SC

I think soccer is not popular in America because of economics. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a professional soccer player but professional soccer players don't make any money! Because of the lack of “the dream” few people choose to play soccer after elementary school, which leads to few Americans understanding the sport. If you want to continue playing soccer after “rec league” you have to join an expense club. I chose to play Jr. High football (free & huge payback if successful… I wasn't). Now I love watching football because I played it through High School and I understand the sport. The same works for basketball, it is free (high school & college scholarships) and if you're really good, you'll be a millionaire by 19 yrs. old. Baseball is falling out of popularity because there are few college scholarships and if you choose to go the rout of straight to pro ball you're committing to years of low income in the hopes for major leagues by 22/23 yrs old. Therefore, few people select to play baseball. This also explains why people from lower incomes choose to play basketball and football over baseball. Often times to get your dream of being a baseball player you have to have supportive/rich parents or willing to be dirt poor.

Simonbegg

Pro soccer players don't make any money? $200k a week before endorsemnets & bonuses would do me fine.

SC

Aside from David Beckham, who makes $200k a week? And how many of those are Americans…. zero…

Son of Bob

I still remember when soccer was introduced into our schools and forced down our throats by liberal idiots because it was an “international” game, and was part of the initial force-fed entry into the “world community”. Frankly, I don't care if they play football (real football) or baseball in France or Iran…really don't care at all…it's not a prerequisite for my kids playing a sport. Here in America, we're smart enough to play sports in which we acknowledge that we actually have hands. Soccer is a stupid game, always has been, and Americans have repeatedly rejected it…thankfully.

Mahatma

And you wonder why the rest of the world despises the Ugly Americans.

mightysamurai

Yeah, how dare Americans have personal opinions! Those savages!
StanW

I don't know and MORE IMPORTANTLY I Don't CARE!

http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

Sigh. Half the people in my store have to watch socc……zzzzzzzzz.

Personally, I can't stand it because it is boring to watch (kinda like watching bowling or Texas Hold 'Em), and, have shattered my ankle and snapped my leg playing.
Simonbegg

Meant in jest – not as a troll.
Americans:
“Dental hygiene fascists and incorrigible donners of khaki trousers who have to invent abstruse games to call themselves world champions.”
And an American living in UK view
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/09/…
Simonbegg

And I must say I find the socialism tag rather ironic.
Soccer is THE free market sport. The richest clubs buy all the best players – there is no draft- and will pay the market rate for them. There is no salary cap either.
It is American sports that follow a more socialist path by allowing the weakest teams to have first choice of the new best players via the draft system and then restricting the movement of players between teams by imposing a salary cap that stops the richest team signing all the best players. That seems rather socialist to me.

Trench_Raider

Someone refresh my memory. We have so many of these guys even I loose track of all of them after a bit. Wasn't this guy a troll we had here a couple of years ago?

TR

Simonbegg

Yes trench, i've not posted for a while, but I was never a troll.

I still lurk around the site quite often to get a view of what is happening over there.I also see that you are as charming as ever.
But instead of just slandering me why don't you respond to the above post and counter my assertion? I'm not degenerating any of 'your' sports – I played american football for 14 years – just pointing out the juxtaposition of John's Socialiam ball comment in the same lighthearted context that John used. It's hardly a serious topic is it?

Mahatma

Because Trenchie has a boner for trolls and sees one in every prison cell.

Trench_Raider

Hmmm….so you posted here under a previous name then. You are a sock puppet as well as a troll.
Why don't you man up and tell us who you are? Ah don't worry. Yo post long enough and I'll figure it out. I'm pretty good at that after all.

TR
sim427

Ah, no, Trench…Simon has been here a loooong time, but hasn't posted in ages. I've only seen him post under Simon Begg

Mahatma

Okay I get it. A lot of you don't like soccer Even if you don't this is a really cool video. Animals playing soccer. Check it out:

http://tinyurl.com/2a8to5m
RtWingNtCase

Wow, over 70 comments – far and away the largest comment thread of the day. That's an awful lot of energy spent on something you folks “don't care about.”
CoolCzech

The only thing I find interesting about soccer is the compulsion people like Mahatma feel to try to pretend they like it just to impress foreigners (“Restore America's Standing in the World,” I think they call it).

Whatever happened to the glories of “Marching to The Beat of Your Own Drum,” etc.? What a bunch of feckless mansy pansy conformists Liberals have revealed themselves to be.

And regarding the way Liberals love to wallow in the tired old “Ugly American” meme…

I'm from Europe. Some Europeans are friends of mine. And THEY, Sir, can be Ugly as Sin. Vicious anti-semites, the first words out of their mouth as they step off the boat often is, “Nigg er” the first time they see a black person. WHY? Because immigrants from Europe tend to feel inferior to native Americans, and they desperately need to feel superior to somebody. They may feel lower down on the totem pole, but at least they get to drop the N-Word to pump themselves up.

So don't tell me about Ugly Americans. Ugly Americans have died all over the globe securing the freedom of others. Contemplate instead the true ugliness and utter hypocrisy of the European.

Mahatma

I'm not “pretending” anything. I truly enjoy the sport. I truly enjoy learning about other cultures. I truly enjoy talking to people from different parts of the world.

tired old “Ugly American” meme.

Yes we're tired of it and yes it is old. But unfortunately, still true.

CoolCzech

So who do you consider to be the “beautiful people,” Mahatma?

The Asians that allow zero, zip, ZILCH immigration of ANY sort?

The anti-Semitic Europeans?

The tribal genocide-indulging Africans?

The power mad Russians?

Man,have YOU got a lot to learn. Maybe you should spend less time watching soccer and read up on the rest of the world a bit.
CoolCzech

By the way: what on EARTH does liking or disliking soccer have to do with learning about other cultures?

Americans don't have TIME for soccer because they already have three great games that originated in North America: American football, baseball, and basketball. Hockey is a fourth major sport, not quite up there with the other ones in popularity. There's only so much time anyone with a job can devote to a game.

ANY game can strike you as boring if you don't understand it or didn't grow up watching it – to MY eye, baseball is a bunch of guys standing around scratching their crotches and occasionally throwing a ball. Football seems like a bunch of guys in tights with stuffed crotches patting themselves on the butt a lot – make of that what you will.

Point it: it's SILLY and sort of “reverse-ethnocentric” to absolutely DEMAND that Americans MUST learn to love soccer just to make Europeans and South Americans feel better somehow.

I've got news for you: Europeans simply DON'T CARE if Americans like soccer or not. The idea that they really give a crap is YOUR conceit.

One_Conservative

For those of you that can't stand soccer, do not fear. The sport will never have a large commercial impact in the US because the game can't be stopped every 5 minutes for commercial breaks like basketball or football and doesn't have guaranteed breaks every 1/2 inning like baseball. I happen to love watching soccer, then again, I also enjoy watching baseball and golf.

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