Simple to fix.
Import hooliganism.
http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=soccer+hooligan&FORM=BIRE
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.
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 is good fun to play.
And that’s all I’ll say about that. Why should anything else matter?
This person knows nothing about soccer. Nothing at all. So what type of idiot publishes a column about something they know nothing about? I guess all journalists do that on a daily basis which is why we are where we are...
Is he being sarcastic or serious?
In any case.. there a big problem with the development system of the soccer players in US and Canada. Everyone a “winner” is a stupid idea which does not exist in European or Latin American youth systems. Soccer players have to start playing on a professional level very young, College development system just stifles this. Part of it comes from parents not taking the game seriously.. part of it is the liberal crap, there is also the attempt to use the traditional American sport system(college) for soccer, which just does not work at highest level.
Not going to go into boring not boring.. but alteast there are no stoppages and advertisement break every 2 mins. Would have loved for someone try that with soccer in europe, would have been an epic riot.
As my old coach said, football(soccer) is like life is unfair and success or failure rests on a split second decision and luck, while to stay in it you got be able to just keep at it no matter what (the whole fitness aspect of having to run for 90 mins)
This certainly seems true, given the involvement of Big Soccer--the multinational corporations that manufacture soccer balls, uniforms, and equipment along with their flunkies and political allies. However, a few years ago, Keep Our Own Kids Safe, a grassroots movement determined to stand up to Big Soccer and save American children from this dangerous sport, was organized by Rush Limbaugh.
By the way, note the acronym.
american soccer has no ties.
european soccer has tie games.
Soccer is a cheep game to play. A field, a ball, some benches and presto you have somethign to keep the peoples busy. (bread and circuses)
