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The repuke's new war is here. Its the War On Soccer...
AMERICA'S FAVORITE NATIONAL PASTIME: HATING SOCCER
June 25, 2014
Ann Coulter
I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade
-- or about the length of the average soccer game -- so as not to offend
anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only
be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a
real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls --
all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're
standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home
runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.
In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores
anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no
child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually
alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."
Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down
the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in.
That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.
(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which
athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with
boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.
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Its from her site if you can stand the stench.
valerief
(53,235 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)She's full of shit.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Once the talking points get out via Fox News, Limbaugh, etc. that soccer is a liberal sport for non-american communist evil doers, they will follow orders and stop watching. I will never forget the repuke couple I know who dropped their Progressive Insurance because some repuke talking head told them the word "Progressive" meant socialism and communism. Didn't bother them a bit that the new policy cost them more $$$$. They were fighting evil.
Beaverhausen
(24,475 posts)Now I know where this comes from.
Warpy
(111,437 posts)You get to post four paragraphs of swill at a time, that is enough to let people decide if they want to read the whole thing and not enough to get DU sued again.
No, I didn't read much beyond the first paragraph. Why would any of us? She's become shrill and too predictable.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)where every play begins with a guy sticking his hands in another guy's crotch and the players celebrate by slapping each other on the butt.
There's so much more I could say but I think what she needs to do is to go sit in the stands at a Premier League game at Liverpool, Manchester United or Arsenal and start voicing her goofy opinions about football.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Wicked Witch of the West strikes again.
3catwoman3
(24,109 posts)...2 opposable brain cells.
angrychair
(8,753 posts)kiss my Oranje ass!
longship
(40,416 posts)I confess to not liking soccer very much. But I abhor US football. It's utter rubbish.
If one wants football, IMHO, one should watch Aussie rules football. Like soccer, the ball is always in play -- a good thing, meaning that play does not stop every 30 seconds for commercials. And like soccer, there are no helmets, padding, etc. Unlike soccer, there is tackling, but there is also a lot of kicking. Plus, it is played on a cricket grounds, a truly oval shaped big field. And it's relatively easy to score, so you don't see any 2-1 ending scores -- more likely 162-121.
My favorite sport.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... one of these days, American football is going to cease and opt for soccer, as it is simply a safer sport. Do I love watching American football? Yes. But I cringe when they carry them off the field on a stretcher. Or when they die at a young age because they had too many concussions.
malaise
(269,278 posts)Soccer is life and while sometimes some folks win, there are a lot of draws in real life.
In a winner take all society, the notion of compromise or living to fight another day would annoy morons like Ann Coulter.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)you know she has nothing when nothing is all she whines about.