Posted on 07/03/2014 9:41:41 AM PDT by smoothsailing
I agree...soccer sucks. However, Ms. Coulter still needs to eat more.
Shouldn't she be out floating "Romney in 2016" trial balloons at this point?
She nailed it again!! I’m really tired of being scolded for not being enamored with a game that looks like a mass track meet without a clearly defined finish line.
She’s been on Hannity quite a bit. She’ll never shed her GOPe cloak with me.
Coulter knows what kind of article pads her bank account. Her soccer schtick is doing wonders in that department.
I don’t get these articles on soccer.
It could be summed up in one sentence.
“Most Americans don’t like soccer but it is very popular in much of the world.”
Period.
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Anne really needs to get over. Yes people like this sport. And as such they would like more people to like it. And some of them are jerks about it, because some people are just jerks. Being a jerk back doesn’t fix anything, just shows you to be a shrill nasty person. We get it, she doesn’t like soccer, I really don’t either, so I watch something else. Not terribly difficult.
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This is just ridiculous. This was the first time there has been "heat rest" in soccer. Otherwise the 11 players are out running for 2 45 minutes halves with only 3 possible subs. In football, most players play 40 or so plays at most, with each play being about 10 to 15 seconds, than 25 to 40 seconds of rest, then off the field while the other parts of the team come off the field. Football is a physical brutal game to play, but because of the hits, not because they are out running all the time.
She is not being serious.....she’s poking fun at the hoopla.
Catherine Thompson sniped in Talking Points Memo: "It's worth noting that aside from the Olympics, the World Cup is really the only occasion when an American audience gets a chance to cheer on a national -- rather than a regional -- sports team. But apparently that doesn't jibe with Coulter's vision of patriotism."Uh, Ann? Those three sports are "boring," too. You have a fine head on your shoulders, but you didn't use it here.Aside from the Olympics? Yes, and aside from ABBA, Fiendens musik is the biggest Swedish rock band. Aside from that gigantic "aside from," it's still not true. Has Thompson ever heard of the Ryder Cup, the Davis Cup or the America's Cup? Apparently, those competitions don't jibe with Thompson's vision of patriotism.
LOL!
I’ve noticed a subtle shift this year. Instead of “Most Americans don’t like soccer but it is very popular in much of the world” most of the columns lean toward, “Most Americans don’t like soccer because it is becoming more popular in the United States.”
Nick Wing and Paige Lavender? Really? LOL, parents really need to be more careful.
Did you know that all players on a team run an average of 62 miles per game?
That works out to a 10K run for each player. And it takes them 90 minutes to do it. Granted it done in anaerobic spurts, but I used to run 10K in less than 45 minutes.
Football players get FAR more rest than soccer players.
-- and football players are wearing about 100 pounds of gear, not the airy frocks of soccer players.
100 pounds? What a buffoon.
:-)
I think her other point is that the left gets in a snit when Americans refuse to go whole hog for soccer. But truthfully, I think the coasty leftists would hate it if America went full in for soccer, because then if wouldn't be exclusively coastal and lefty and "sophisticated" and "international" anymore, but would carry the taint of the flyover states.
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