[Soccer:] The Anti-American Pastime

National Review ^ | July 8, 2014 | Bernard Goldberg

[Objective Scrutator]

Liberalism and a cosmopolitan outlook go together like a gunshot wound to the brain and death, so Goldberg has a valid point. However, some people may be interested in soccer because they are trying to differentiate themselves from Obama's America. That's a defeatist attitude which helps the Democrats stay in power, but it's still a natural reaction.

[1rudeboy]

LOL—The author wrote a book about “bias.”

[FatherofFive]

Soccer is for Satan

[al_c]

But it’s not just because it’s so dull that I don’t like soccer. Another reason I don’t like it is because of the Americans who do like it. Most of these sports fans — a term I use with no regard for either word, “sports” or “fans” — wouldn’t know a fumble from a first down, a hit-and-run from a double play. But every four years they show up at bars and go wild when the American team ties the Tunisians zero-zero, or nil-nil, as they call it.

That's just stupid right there. I doubt HE wouldn't know an offside from a throw in, a yellow card from a red card, or a defender from a striker. Yet he thinks he knows enough about soccer to ridicule those that do like it. THAT is a sure sign of a liberal, IMO.

[1rudeboy]

What surprises me the most about that line-of-argument is the assumption that a person can be a fan of one sport but not others. It’s “sports fan,” not “sport fan.”

[DisorderOnBorder]

Kinda funny how it seems the biggest critics of soccer seems to be liberal internationalist GOP

I am quite conservative and enjoy soccer. My nieces and nephews all play the sport...and their parents are even more conservative

I enjoy the World Cup because I like to see the US and our allies beat the bad guys on the pitch...of course...this may be what really bugs the one worlder internationalist soccer hater in this country

[expat2]

What gives, that these people have to denigrate a popular sport? Do others feel a need to write pieces denigrating basketball or baseball, say? Seems to me that these folk feel some kind of inferiority complex re the most popular sport on the globe....

[4everontheRight]

As a woman, I appreciate the" fitness" of the players but not as much as I do a football...REAL FOOTBALL tight end. 😄 That being said, as a woman, I would rather suffer the scurrilous monthly visit than watch a "shoved down my throat like women's basketball" event that is soccer. And I could not agree with Bernie Goldberg's assessment more!

[ken5050]

Our game of football has been under attack of late because of concern about concussions..and their long term effects. We've all seen the stories about former NFL and college players saying they won't let their kids play Pop Warner football let alone HS football..Soccer grows here as a supposedly safer alternative.

Yet recent studies have shown that the cumulative effects of heading a soccer ball thousands of times..may be even MORE dangerous to the human brain. And when two players collide..skull to skull..well, at least in American football...we're smart enough to wear helmets..

[1rudeboy]

Who is forcing you to watch women’s basketball?

[Objective Scrutator]

Unfortunately, Billy Bob Neck was a Kerry supporter. I'm still not sure how he thinks he's making fun of conservatives, though.

[mavfin]

Don’t conservatives have better issues to cover than pronouncing soccer Anti-American? I mean, personally, I don’t care to watch soccer, or even about the World Cup, but, really, who cares what sport people want to watch or care about?

[Ransomed]

“But it’s not just because it’s so dull that I don’t like soccer. Another reason I don’t like it is because of the Americans who do like it.”

If the determining factor of me digging something or not depends on what other folks think or don’t think about it, it is time to throw in the towel.

Freegards

[Doctor 2Brains]

This is almost word for word exactly and precisely what I’ve been saying—soccer may be good or bad, but SOCCER IS A TOOL OF THE LEFT BECAUSE THE LEFT HATES AMERICA.

[safeasthebanks]

"I don’t care to watch soccer, or even about the World Cup, but, really, who cares what sport people want to watch or care about?"

Hey now, don't be bringing common sense into this! Or let me put it in "soccer basher" talk - "Hey you liberal, stop shoving your common-sense logic down my throat!"

[Huskrrrr]

“I don’t care to watch soccer, or even about the World Cup, but, really, who cares what sport people want to watch or care about?”

Exactly! I’ve started watching soccer with my mother, who immigrated from Germany. Not my cup of tea but it does fill the sports void while I’m waiting for the football season to begin (sorry baseball fans).

[LucianOfSamasota]

Don’t conservatives have better issues to cover than pronouncing soccer Anti-American?

With the fate of the Republic hanging in the balance, a hair's breadth from a one-Party Chavez style despotic oligarchy, I don't really care about the electorate's sports proclivities.

Last time I checked, conservatives were FOR the individual's right to make these decisions for themselves, without assistance.

[1rudeboy]

Help me follow: you can’t cheer for the US National Team every four years because the Left hates America?

[Doctor 2Brains]

Who said that?

[DoodleDawg]

In soccer, they spend hours frantically trying to score. That’s not sport.

Isn't trying to score points the purpose of any sport?