'I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.'
Soccer - a transplanted euroweenie non-sport, where little Sara can play with little Johnny and no one gets hurt and everyone gets a trophy.
soccer is the fluoride of the sports world ;)
What an idiot.
I’m sorry but she is just daft.
And I’m not a sports fan. They all seem pointless to me especially as spectator. But to claim one is a sign of “moral decay”. Doltish.
LMAO!! True! And soccer does suck. it's an activity for girls. Not a sport for boys.
Coulter is ignorant and jumped the shark long ago after her multiple attacks on conservatives.
Well it sounds exactly the same reasons I have heard from Other New Zealanders who don’t care for soccer. This is from John Roughan:
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11273595
“Football (still doesn’t sound right) is not a New Zealand game. It doesn’t suit us. We don’t do delicate footwork. We don’t kick the ball back to our own goal if we can help it. We don’t drop to the grass and writhe in agony at the slightest bodily contact, and we certainly don’t run about with our shirt raised to expose a sparrow chest in ecstasy that we have scored.”
Except that 1. Rough an is about as far from Ann Coulter’s politics as you get, I know a few guys who adore Obama and are Green Party supporters, 2. Rough an doesn’t like or particularly care about the Yanks, and 3. Roughan especially doesn’t care about American conservatives in particular.
Either Ann Coulter is really ranting, but more likely with my British-like habit of reading between the lines she was being tongue in cheek in writing this. The English love writing this type of stuff just to bait their political opponents. Just like John Roughan.
I think soccer is boring, but this is stupid. It’s a game. There is no actual political point to ANY sport. If you like it, you like it; If you don’t, you don’t.
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.
Something is decaying alright, it’s Annie’s brain unfortunately. Add this to her Romney fetish and her GOProud fetish.