[fkabuckeyesrule]

A nice witty column from Coulter.

[TigerClaws]

I’ve been enjoying watching the U.S. games. American pride and nice to see a sport where the players ‘look like America.’

Affirmative Action lawsuit needs to be filed against the NBA. Racis’ y’know to hire people based on excellence.

[JudyinCanada]

lol - I’ve always hated soccer! It was like an invasion by a foreign sport.

Baseball, any day. The only highlight of the World Cup is when the Italians lose.

[Beowulf9]

She’s right you know.

[pallis]

I’ve never watched a soccer game.

[Vigilanteman]

The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.

A very funny column. I have to disagree with Anne, however, here.

I enjoy women's basketball for two reasons:

1. Something other than giants dunking baskets.
   
2. There are more interesting things which bounce than the ball.

[tumblindice]

I’ve been seeing a few columns here on soccer lately. Is something going on, a tournament or something?

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

I HATE soccer! Miles and miles of aimless running after a ball: NO HANDS ALLOWED!!!! LOL!!

[Mount Athos]

What about pretending to get hit hard to win fouls?

[Balding_Eagle]

Soccer, sports version of the traffic roundabout.

[rcrngroup]

Actually a great article by Ann Coulter. She articulated every single reason as to why I hate soccer. Most of all it is.... BORRRRRIIINNNGGG! I would love to see liberals and especially liberal soccer moms sputter & fume about Ann putting down their mononotous boring sport! Tied game USA vs Portugal after 3 excruciating boring hours! At least they should put a sudden death tie breaker into the rules!

[SunTzuWu]

(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks. In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."

My feelings exactly.

[hinckley buzzard]

I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade

Longer than that Ann. This is really so 1990s.

[fortheDeclaration]

Excellent article!

[21twelve]

“(6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer.”

A couple of years ago the Seattle Sounders had a record attendance of 67,385. Although I bet lots of people were pissed getting rousted off their couches by the soccer authorities and loaded onto the cattle cars.

[Proud2BeRight]

At one of the World Cup games they forgot to set up the goals. They discovered the oversight the next day when they were reviewing the game film.

[Milton Miteybad]

Soccer would be much more interesting if the players carried swords and spears on the field. That way, they could stab the opposing players instead of having to bite them.

[willk]

Bravo Ann! Watching soccer is like watching grass grow and how I hate the metric system.

[aposiopetic]

As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.

Baroness Thatcher did have a way with words.

[Ironfocus]

“After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.”

I laughed out loud at that one.

And rugby is a real sport.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Ann’s right. But.

The first soccer match I ever watched was US vs. Portugal. It was exciting.