Simple to fix.
Import hooliganism.
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Posted on 03/11/2009 8:56:05 AM PDT by AreaMan
He pretty much covers it, the left pushed soccer on America and they always hated high school football.
With the exception of Leave it to Beaver almost every TV and movie image of high school football players has been negative for the last 40 years, while soccer was seen as just a healthful sport.
Interesting that he speaks of baseball and not the abomination of T-Ball. As for the broader concept of “ruining” sport, the Left (his term) has done a fine job of it even in the absence of soccer. He’s blaming the symptom he identifies for the disease.
Any sport that keeps kids from being couch potatoes is fine by me. But when they start having “Monday Night Soccer” on ABC / ESPN, I might watch it then.
Soccer sux
Oh, my....where to begin...
In short...soccer is just another sport, among many. Love by many, hated by many just like any other sport.
If you hate it - there’s no convincing...if you have a slight interest in sports in general and are willing to spend some time watching somewhere to 5 to 10 good games...you will pick up the nuances and intricacies of the game.
If you want to be intitiated in the sport, I recommend not wasting anytime now, but wait until next year’s World Cup in South Africa. The best will be on display, and you can cheer for the good ole’ USA.
If you still hate hate it after that, then that’s just it...no need to try and convince you otherwise. I’ve tried and tried to enjoy baseball, but just can’t get there...too boring. Football - I like, but can only stand watching it on TV. At a real game, it’s 10 minutes of actual play time stretched out into 3 1/2 hours. Basketball, my favorite sport...Hockey - only the playoffs interest me. Cricket.....
In the rest of the world, soccer is only about winning and losing. If my team loses (and I get up at 4 a.m. to watch a crappy internet stream to watch them), the rest of my day is ruined. It’s the approach to *anything* by the left that is wrong, not just sports.
Simple to fix.
Import hooliganism.
http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=soccer+hooligan&FORM=BIRE
Highlight shows covering soccer are OK. You actually get to see scoring. It’s the games themselves that are a challenge to watch. It’s incredible that a sport has been designed to make sure little to nothing ever happens.
Soccer rose with the feminization of America...everyone plays....boys and girls and little Ned doesn’t get hurt
and then the third world came...
I don’t think enough Americans watch soccer for it to be doing anything to us. It’s popular as a kids sport because it’s cheap, you can make a soccer field with any 8 objects that stand at least 18” tall (4 for the corners of the field, 4 more for the boundaries of the goals) and the ball. No pads needed for the players, no expensive sticks or helmets, no particularly difficult weather needs, and at 11 players a side you get to use a lot of kids. 1 $20 ball and 4 chairs stolen from the classroom and you’ve got PE for the whole class.
But while soccer has been the most popular sport for kids to play for a long time none of them seem to watch the game when they grow up. Ratings for MLS are still in the toilet, attendance at MLS games still makes the WNBA point and laugh. All that youthful soccer seems to be quickly discarded.
Yeah right - the lefties introduced soccer to america.
Trust me - there is no soccer in the USA - just some guys from high school trying to touch the ball during international tournaments. Iran has a better team.
I went to a prep school in the Cleveland area. In the fall, gym class was either football or soccer. Too skinny for football, I chose the insane sport of soccer!. First day I watched everyone running around like maniacs, and decided that I wanted to be a goalie. So,,, I just stood around the goal, and once every 5 to 10 minutes, someone would try to score. Easy gig, and I was good at it. But watch a game from the sidelines? As boring as watchin’ the grass grow!
Soccer fans wouldn’t want to hear what I call soccer.
What is it about soccer that the author is trying to equivalate? Is it the no contact? No hands? No stoppage? Floating offsides line? Clock counting up? Penalty cards?
-PJ
Soccer isn’t even a sport. There’s no there “there”!
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