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1 posted on 08/19/2012 10:47:29 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
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Yawn.

Zzzzzzzzz......


2 posted on 08/19/2012 10:49:56 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberalism: "Ex faslo quodlibet" - from falseness, anything follows)
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Bor - ing.


3 posted on 08/19/2012 10:50:15 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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We’re sports saturated. I’m flipping between the Detroit Tiger’s baseball game and the NASCAR race at MIS right now.


4 posted on 08/19/2012 10:50:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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Soccer, the Preferred Game of Queers!


5 posted on 08/19/2012 10:51:34 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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Sorry, not for me. Kick, kick- zero-zero tie after three hours. Yawn.


7 posted on 08/19/2012 10:53:16 AM PDT by richmwill
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Soccer is in fact the most popular amateur sport, as measured by numbers of participants and aside from the fact that the average age is probably 12, in America. But it’s very doubtful that a genuine professional league can succeed here on anything approaching the levels of the NFL, MLB, NBA, or NHL. As long as they’re satisfied with dwelling in the sports basement alongside Arena Football, Cage Fighting, and Pro Wrestling they’re welcome to have at it. Personally, I’ve got fresh paint on an interior wall that needs watching.


8 posted on 08/19/2012 10:54:21 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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Sorry, a game just played with feet, legs, and head and forgets the arms and hands (except for the goalie) can be played by the rest of the world. Our best athletes play sports involving feet and legs as well as hand-eye co-ordination. Makes for better pilots and marksmen....


9 posted on 08/19/2012 10:55:00 AM PDT by freebilly
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I must be the only right-winger who actually mildly likes soccer. I don’t go looking for it, since I really don’t care for athletic sports to begin with, but what little of it I’ve seen I like it better than basketball, football, etc. The ball tends to stay in play a lot longer......more suspense builds......at least that’s how I see it.


10 posted on 08/19/2012 10:56:00 AM PDT by MachIV
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Well if they give them uniforms that spark on contact, or have a built in taser that will shock an opponent, oh and a remote controlled robotic eagle that will pluck out the eyeballs of anyone who commits a foul, and some cheerleaders all armed with AR rifles.....

I might be interested.


11 posted on 08/19/2012 10:58:51 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Vote for Sarah Palin, she is the cure to the disease and infection of socialism.)
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Rugby? Maybe.

Soccer, I mean Keeekball? Not likely.
12 posted on 08/19/2012 10:59:01 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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Never... It’s downright unamerican . Let the commies have it


13 posted on 08/19/2012 10:59:11 AM PDT by Breto (The Establishment party is killing our country)
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Recently, I have noticed that media has been anti football and pro soccer. Is this just another way to “europeanize” the United States? According to several soccer moms I spoke to cuncussions are a big problenm in soccer especially among youth. Why is it we NEVER hear anything about it? Play soccer if you like, just leave football alone.


14 posted on 08/19/2012 10:59:28 AM PDT by marstegreg
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No.


15 posted on 08/19/2012 11:00:00 AM PDT by Theoria (Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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But in this shrinking world

BTW, the world isn't shrinking...That's U.N. lib speak.

Problem is the U.S. government is dumping the world in our laps...Be it legal or illegal immigration, the U.S. government is turning America into an immigration dumping ground. And they bring all their cultures with them.

And the government could care f'n less there are tens of millions of Americans out of work.

16 posted on 08/19/2012 11:00:09 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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More to the point, what are your needs for making this statement? Aren't you being defensive, just a little, in whining about the lack of popularity for your game?
18 posted on 08/19/2012 11:00:57 AM PDT by Misterioso
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None of those are good reason to embrace a sport, even if they were true, which really they aren’t. The fact of the matter is soccer just doesn’t appeal to Americans, it’s not soccer’s fault, it’s not Americans’ fault, it’s just how it is. We’re not a good couple.


20 posted on 08/19/2012 11:01:44 AM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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socker isn’t football, it’s 3rd world crap!


21 posted on 08/19/2012 11:01:44 AM PDT by dalereed
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Soccer is so gay.
22 posted on 08/19/2012 11:01:55 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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Unlike most team sports, no equipment is required to play except a ball. And I don't necessarily mean a football. The kids at my school use "paper" balls, and when I was a kid, we used sweaters for goal posts.

The same is true of American football, which i played with my friends on any old field or playground when I was kid.

24 posted on 08/19/2012 11:03:52 AM PDT by PhatHead
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I can see it now, a Friday night in a rural Texas town the air is cool on this Homecoming night. The stadium is full as the two prairie powerhouse teams take the field. The skinny players of the home team hope to avenge the nil-nil tie of last year as they stand in silence for the playing of the US and Mexican National Anthems.

If there is no football what will the fat kids play?


25 posted on 08/19/2012 11:04:38 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrats: Ticket of Dope and Chains.)
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