Posted on 06/27/2014 7:07:40 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter believes that the country’s growing interest in soccer – fueled by Team USA’s success in the 2014 World Cup - is a sure sign of America's ‘moral decay.’
Coulter’s reasons for hating soccer include that individual achievement is not a big factor, it isn’t rough enough, and the fact that ‘it's foreign.’
As a conservative she argued that liberals only love soccer - and the metric system - because they're both 'European.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Ann lost her relevancy, and marbles, a very long time ago.”
yes and it is a shame. such comments make conservatives appear rather insane IMO. we’ll all be lumped together over such words by those who want to make us all look foolish.
I think this is for laughs…
Articles like this are good for business. They generate traffic to your website. A conservative polemicist has been writing one of these World Cup columns for as long as I can remember (back to the 80’s), when I saw one in National Review.
Whenever I’m in an Irish pub I can handle some soccer while I eat or drink. But I don’t care who wins and whenever I see an actual score it’s almost always because they are showing “highlights”.
I find some aspects of the sport interesting, but most americans just want to see more reward for your effort. That is, more actual scoring. I consider even baseball more exciting than soccer, and that’s saying something.
BTW, my daughter started out in soccer and, like all the other girls on her team, as soon as she was old enough she moved on to Basketball. My grandson did the same, only he moved on to baseball at nine.
“I think the tranny is right on that soccer is boring”
Hardly boring at all. MUCH better than American football where it takes 4 hrs. to play a 60 minute game. Or baseball where all they do is pick at their groins and spit tobacco juice everywhere.
You understand, that the American version of football, played by men who form teams of offense and defense, with downs, lines of scrimmage, tackles, passes and touchdowns, is rapidly on the road to being outlawed, because of the long-term injuries done to the players, ethnic slurs contained in the names of the teams, and various constraint of trade agreements regarding league expansions and TV coverage.
With this mainstay of sports entertainment being shuffled off the scene, there just has to be a substitute to take over as the US version disappears.
And there is one in the offing. What is called “football” in the rest of the world, but known as “Soccer” in the US, is being promoted ever more strongly, to at last wean Americans away from their reliance on the high-contact and gladiator aspect of spectator sports, for the more genteel and unisex game that involves very little body contact.
Like the way was paved for that travesty called “gay marriage”. And introduced to the US by the same devious agents.
I hope it gets all the progressive and liberal panties all tied up in knots! It’s perfect!
“Ann is an irrelevant hack. I hope the skinny bitch falls through her ass and hangs herself.”
LOL...never heard that before, but trust me I’ll use it one day when the occasion arises.
There’s two sides to that coin. Some of those people act like snobs because they know it pisses people like you off.
Soccer sucks BTW!
Why all the Ann hate? I remember when she was adored on FR.
She kind of lost me w/ the Christie and Romney lovefest, but I still admire her writing and rants.
Soccer may be good or it may be bad, but it cannot be denied that liberals hate America and love soccer and are constantly ramming it down our throats for one reason and one reason alone: France and the rest of the world love soccer and we do not. Therefore we are bad and must be made to love soccer.
Every 4 years we get silly articles touting America’s supposed new love for soccer. Mostly from the usual self-hating Americans that want so badly to pretend like they are Europeans or feel soooo ashamed that our most popular sports dwarf soccer in interest.
As if the fact that India, Australia, Ireland, Japan, and Canada also being lukewarm to the sport never crosses their mind. Nope, we are just all dumb rednecks for not seeing the wonders and sophistication of it.
Once the US is out of play, the interest in it will drop to nothing.
When do we get Cricket? A 4 day test?
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