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America's Growing Interest in Soccer/The World Cup a Sign of 'Moral Decay', claims Ann Coulter
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 27, 2014 | David Mccormack

Posted on 06/27/2014 7:07:40 AM PDT by sevinufnine

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To: moehoward

That’s ok, you lot stick to thoseso- macho sports of baseball (game invented in England and based on girls game called rounders) or gridiron (aka padded rugby).


141 posted on 06/28/2014 2:53:01 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: MrB

Baseball and ‘football’ aren’t American. Both are English by birth. Basketball was the idea of a Canadian, ice hockey is also Canadian, golf Scottish, tennis English. Lacrosse is Native American-French.


142 posted on 06/28/2014 2:55:27 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: NZerFromHK

Kiwis though don’t run around screaming about it being ‘un-American’ or how its a communist plot.


143 posted on 06/28/2014 2:56:42 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: oh8eleven

Soccer caqn never be as boring as baseball or ‘football’.

At least a boring soccer game is over in 90m. A boring rugby match in 80.

Baseball and football take 3-4 hrs. And its our sports that are boring?.


144 posted on 06/28/2014 2:58:32 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Steve_Seattle

And US soccer haters don’t understand the amount of tactics/strategy soccer has, so we get the silly comments about ‘its just running around.’


145 posted on 06/28/2014 2:59:51 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Vaquero

I find it ridiculous and frightening that supposedly sensible adults think a sport is somehow part of some great commie conspiracy.

BTW, if you and others knew anything about soccer, or even actually stopped to think for two secs, youd grasp that soccer is in fact THE most capitalist of sports: big money, big crowds, big TV revenue, big teams, small teams die off.

Its NORTH AMERICAN sports that are set up on a socialist basis: drafts, salary caps, no relegation........


146 posted on 06/28/2014 3:02:36 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: 1rudeboy

Real lot of OWS-types right there. /s


147 posted on 06/28/2014 3:05:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: the scotsman

To paraphrase the American Black idiom. ‘Its a black thing...’

“It’s an American thing...you wouldn’t understand” it’s a rugged individual thing, like packing a weapon and knowing how to use it... or playing NFL style football in a war like fashion(like rugby only with a more ridgid structure...btw I like rugby). Or Major League Baseball (thanks to the Brits for rounders and cricket) where there is a team, but it is the individual who can really shine.

We also say ‘counter-clockwise’. Spell ‘color ‘ without a ‘U’. And when we’re sick we go to ‘THE ‘ hospital.

PEACE (through superior firepower)


148 posted on 06/28/2014 3:58:18 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

Yes, as a Scot, I wouldn’t know what its like to come from a race of rugged individuals.....


149 posted on 06/28/2014 4:02:59 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Vaquero
Or Major League Baseball (thanks to the Brits for rounders and cricket) where there is a team, but it is the individual who can really shine.

"Team!"

150 posted on 06/28/2014 4:03:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: sevinufnine
Ann went off her rocker on this one. Clearly.

She went off her rocker some time ago with her Romney fetish, among other things.

151 posted on 06/28/2014 4:14:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: the scotsman

I truly respect your highland ruggedness(not sarcasm). But lose the skirts, would ya?(sarcasm but with love) you guys still trying to split from England?

(I mean pants. Don’t just lose the kilts....btw my Celtic niece and nephews all play the pipes and wear kilts in a marching band... Myself, I’m of mostly eye-talian descent where they also play that godawful futabol)


152 posted on 06/28/2014 4:36:50 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: dfwgator

That’s the Chicago way team. Great movie but not to heavy with facts.


153 posted on 06/28/2014 4:38:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: the scotsman
Soccer caqn never be as boring as baseball or ‘football’.
Try to defend the ridiculous all you want. Gheeze, get a life.
154 posted on 06/28/2014 5:15:44 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

Sorry, but baseball is as dull as dishwater, and is so slow, compounded by its length.

Gridiron takes 3-4 hrs to complete ‘60 minutes’ of ‘action’, and frankly why would I watch it when I can watch the REAL thing, its father, rugby. In fact I can watch THREE 80m rugby matches in the time it takes to watch a gridiron game.

Soccer is at least 90m of constant movement. By the time a soccer game is over, you are about a third the way through a baseball or NFL game. Yet apparently its soccer that boring and slow....


155 posted on 06/28/2014 5:55:30 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Vaquero

Actually I am a proud Lowlander (most Scots are Lowlanders or Borderers). Mum is of Highland descent though.

As to splitting, the UK/Britain and England are not the same thing. The UK/Britain/GB is England, Scotland, NI and Wales. We joined the UK in 1707. By choice, not by English conquest, like the irish and welsh.

I wish to remain within the UK. I am a patriot but not a Nationalist. I am proud to be both Scottish and British.


156 posted on 06/28/2014 5:59:25 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: the scotsman

just felt a picture of Gibson as Wallace was appropriate.

been watching 'the Vikings' interesting dynamic between the Scandinavians and the Brits. lots of dramatization (as opposed to hard fact) I am sure, but interesting none the less.

my 1/4 British Isle genetics(my mother's, mother being 100%) is mostly from what is now the Republic of Ireland....but was part of Britain when the forebears left more than a century ago.

157 posted on 06/28/2014 8:26:41 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: sevinufnine

I’ve come to the conclusion that this “debate” is the worst part about soccer. On the one side you’ve got a bunch of hipster Euro-wanabe idiots claiming America is stupid for not liking soccer, on the other side you’ve got a bunch of chest thumping dipsticks who clearly don’t know anything about the sport or sports in general claiming it’s un-American and evil.

The reality is, everybody who takes a side in the quad-annual soccer argument is a moron.


158 posted on 06/28/2014 8:29:20 AM PDT by discostu (Ladies and gentlemen watch Ruth!)
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To: the scotsman

Oh, we do say soccer is “un-kiwi” and doesn’t fit the rugged Kiwi outdoor rugged national characters.


159 posted on 06/28/2014 1:42:52 PM PDT by NZerFromHK
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To: sevinufnine

Something is decaying alright, it’s Annie’s brain unfortunately. Add this to her Romney fetish and her GOProud fetish.


160 posted on 06/29/2014 11:04:55 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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