Soccer, browning up America one game at a time.
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Can we give these people their own planet and kick them off this one? 
So let me get it straight what Conservatives stand for:
Support BP over the people in the Gulf
Support banks over reasonable fiscal regulation
Hate soccer because the rest of the world likes it
Gotcha. Should be a great platform to run on in 2010.
Support BP over the people in the Gulf
Support banks over reasonable fiscal regulation
Hate soccer because the rest of the world likes it
Gotcha. Should be a great platform to run on in 2010.
see my thread on beck's dropping ratings...
something i'd like to point out here... world cup soccer is arguably more of an international to-do with more fans, more media coverage, and better ratings than the olympics.
anyone else catch Liddy essentially calling soccer players a bunch of head choppers?
re: becks comment about baseball riots. He obviously doesn't remember the 2007 World Series
anyone else catch Liddy essentially calling soccer players a bunch of head choppers?
re: becks comment about baseball riots. He obviously doesn't remember the 2007 World Series
well....you have to admit there are more riots in soccer than in baseball.
oh absolutely. I just wanted to highlight becks selective memory.
I did think of the big difference between soccer and the big two American sports: football/baseball: socialism vs ownership.
In football, your goal is to gain yards on the way to a score. Even if you are unable to score, if you gain enough yards, it makes it very hard for the other team since they have to take back their yards before they can they are in your side of the field.
In baseball, the resource you are protecting is your pitcher's arm. The more pitchers he throws, the more worthless he becomes. So the better pitcher and his defense, the fewer pitches he throws, and the longer he lasts.
In both cases, you attempt to earn something, which is ownership.
But in soccer, with low scores and the capability of launching the ball across the field at any time, there are no possessions. No matter what you do, you can lose everything you've earned with one kick. That's socialism.
In football, your goal is to gain yards on the way to a score. Even if you are unable to score, if you gain enough yards, it makes it very hard for the other team since they have to take back their yards before they can they are in your side of the field.
In baseball, the resource you are protecting is your pitcher's arm. The more pitchers he throws, the more worthless he becomes. So the better pitcher and his defense, the fewer pitches he throws, and the longer he lasts.
In both cases, you attempt to earn something, which is ownership.
But in soccer, with low scores and the capability of launching the ball across the field at any time, there are no possessions. No matter what you do, you can lose everything you've earned with one kick. That's socialism.
I see what your saying and realize its tounge in cheek, my question is do you think most of these wingnuts are even capable of thinking that deeply about it, or is this simply just another case of made up outrage?
Oh no, I believe that the outrage is very real. It's an outrage any ANYTHING different, anything that might smack of internationalism, anything that might disturb "real Americans". Just remember the amount of vitriol when it became apparent that Obama ate "arugula". Americans didn't eat arugula, they eat iceberg lettuce if they eat salad at all. They don't eat fancy-pants European food, they eat ribs, and McDonalds. They don't watch "soccer", they watch football and baseball, and grunt and spit while they do it.
It's 'merican, and if you don't like, leave.
Haters want to hate. The problem with soccer is that it is the world's game and these fools hate what the world likes.
I didn't like rugby until I saw Invictus. Mandela and Pienaar made it into a country-unifying sport.
BTW, I might not make a comparison of American sports to capitalism and soccer to socialism, but I have noticed there is less strategy in soccer compared to football and baseball.
Ding ding ding! Winnar!
I've come to belive quite firmly that a lot of this Right wing anger is about the loss of white entitlement. Old, fat, white guys are losing there grip on the world, aren't in charge anymore and goddamnit, there not going to take it anymore!
soccer fan.....same knuckle dragger....different ball.
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you should see all the topics about this on 4chan
Sorry, Cons, but ~17m people watched the game on Saturday, which was more than the NBA finals on Saturday night. Looks like it might be just another thing you're completely out of touch with?
Nah. Who wants to watch a bunch of genetically stupid porchmonkeys jump around? No Jesus loving red blooded real American patriot, that's for sure.
what's the venn diagram of americans who follow nba -vs- soccer look like? tangent?
and since you brought up demographics, apply that to above. i would also dare to suggest the ratio of jesus lovers is higher among nba fans vice soccer
if you want to be on the nose, you might try for college football, which i believe is over-represented by fundies, esp since the 2nd coming of tebow
Where does hockey fit into all this? Am I supposed to hate hockey? It seems kinda like soccer on ice to me?
Hockey's ok. It's like the Republican party...mostly white, with one or two black guys.
i thought for sure you were going to throw in missing teeth & mullets. do i have to copy edit everything?
Thanks for the advice Silver, but I'm still not sold. After all, Russians love that game.
The strangest thing about soccer in the US is that almost every kid who is into after school sports plays soccer as their first sport but very few people stick with it. Soccer moms and mini vans were just after apple pie in American-ness last time I checked. So why the sudden hate?
The strangest thing about soccer in the US is that almost every kid who is into after school sports plays soccer as their first sport but very few people stick with it. Soccer moms and mini vans were just after apple pie in American-ness last time I checked. So why the sudden hate?
Cuz the rest of the world is into it so we, the USA must hate on it and throw our support into another sport, strangely called football which is not "world" football.
Oh the irony
Those are the good capitalist Russians. Besides the US beat them in hockey 30 years ago, and so the US is a better hockey nation anyways. No Russian blacks either, which is a huge net positive in the eyes of your average mouth breathing GOP racist...I mean voter.
when did college/pro football/basketball/baseball become all white?
The new porchmonkey is not African-American, but Latino or African.
Get it straight, you fvcking racist!
Americans don't like Soccer for a couple of reasons. Reason #1 is that it sucks and is stupid. Reason #2 is that, since our best athletes actually participate in sports which don't suck, we get all these losers who couldn't make their highschool football team representing our country...and so we lose. Who in their right mind would want to watch that?
And yet...just in the past few years has Roger Goodell reached out to foreign countries about the NFL...
Wierd, no?
i think even a subpar soccer player is more physically fit than any football player.
It is apples and oranges.
Football players are built for explosive sprints and heavy hitting. Soccer players are leaner for the constant running and fancy footwork.
Your typical wide receiver/db could play soccer if they avoided the weights, but no soccer player could be a linebacker.
....or maybe Becky is all butt hurt because the world cup is getting better rating than he EVER has...
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991933_1991952,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991933_1991952,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
I don't think you realize how big some of the soccer guys are. Watching the Greece Nigeria game today they mentioned the weights of some of the players, several of them were 220+ lbs. More weight-room and twinkies and they would be right there with a linebacker.
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^^^^ Still pisses me off that Groundskeeper Willy refers to it as a "Soccer riot" at the end of that scene...