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Ann Coulter destroys soccer in article (from MSB)
Posted on 6/26/14 at 6:18 am
Posted on 6/26/14 at 6:18 am
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I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average soccer game -- so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
(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."
Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.
(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.
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(9) Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear -- again -- about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."
The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)
Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.
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If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. 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.
I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average soccer game -- so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
(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."
Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.
(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.
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(9) Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear -- again -- about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."
The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)
Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.
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If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. 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.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 6:22 am to mizzoukills
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I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer.
One great great grandfather was born here along with my other great grandfather. She is a fricking hack. Always has been.
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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.
Roberto Baggio and Gyan say.. "Hi Anne, you vapid count".
Posted on 6/26/14 at 6:22 am to mizzoukills
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destroys soccer
Nope
Posted on 6/26/14 at 6:41 am to mizzoukills
The frick is this? Onion article?
Posted on 6/26/14 at 6:52 am to mizzoukills
Posted on 6/26/14 at 6:59 am to mizzoukills
Wow. She just hit a new level of dumb. What a desperate little attention whore.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 7:00 am to mizzoukills
Never heard of anyone so god damn stupid in all my life. Is she really trying to make soccer have a political side? Jesus christ my eyes are burning out of my skull. If soccer is boring to you, and fricking baseball is exciting, then you're clueless and not athletic.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 7:04 am to mizzoukills
Typically I'd agree with her but she fails to connect on like...every point here.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 7:04 am to mizzoukills
Why y'all letting her troll you?
Posted on 6/26/14 at 7:05 am to mizzoukills
She should abort herself.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 7:09 am to mizzoukills
Miami heat fan Ann Coulter?
Posted on 6/26/14 at 7:50 am to mizzoukills
Ann Coulter always has and always will need the D with that kind of thought process.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 8:14 am to mizzoukills
She sure does hate the metric system.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 8:15 am to mizzoukills
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Ann Coulter
Nobody listens to her anymore. Also her points are just wrong. Fail.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 8:17 am to mizzoukills
I like soccer, but I recognize it is the sport of Occupy protestors and hipsters.
Nothing wrong with a little honesty.
Nothing wrong with a little honesty.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 9:26 am to mizzoukills
Ann Coulter is psychopath, so I don't really care about anything she says
Posted on 6/26/14 at 9:44 am to mizzoukills
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I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average soccer game
And yet I bet she loves baseball
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:18 am to mizzoukills
I like Ann Coulter, and generally agree with what she writes. Often not to the same degree, but general agreement nonetheless. That article, however, misses a ton of points.
1. There's a difference between world cup soccer, and regular soccer. I don't get into soccer on an annual basis. I don't get into track and field, or curling on an annual basis. Every four years though, when a team playing that sport is representing us against the rest of the world, it's as exciting, emotionally charged, and attention worthy of a sporting even as I've ever watched.
2. The fact that the WORLD likely sees soccer as the most important sport played is reason enough to get emotionally invested in this sport come world cup time.
3. As for her assessment that the sport lacks individually talented players, that's just patently bullshite. There's a reason all NFL/College kickers kick the ball "soccer style". It's because folks that play soccer at high levels can launch kickable objects with their feet more precisely and further than those that play any other sport. Kicking a soccer ball, and making it spin, dip, dive, or curve is, IMO, an art that's very similar to the art and craft that pitchers apply to baseballs.
After the world cup is over, I probably won't watch a bunch of soccer for 4 more years. I'm an American College Football fan. That's what gets me going. I can still recognize though that soccer is "the" world game, has incredibly talented players, and requires a ton of skill to play it at the highest level. I certainly wouldn't write an article putting down a game that, for some reason, the entire world views as attention worthy.
1. There's a difference between world cup soccer, and regular soccer. I don't get into soccer on an annual basis. I don't get into track and field, or curling on an annual basis. Every four years though, when a team playing that sport is representing us against the rest of the world, it's as exciting, emotionally charged, and attention worthy of a sporting even as I've ever watched.
2. The fact that the WORLD likely sees soccer as the most important sport played is reason enough to get emotionally invested in this sport come world cup time.
3. As for her assessment that the sport lacks individually talented players, that's just patently bullshite. There's a reason all NFL/College kickers kick the ball "soccer style". It's because folks that play soccer at high levels can launch kickable objects with their feet more precisely and further than those that play any other sport. Kicking a soccer ball, and making it spin, dip, dive, or curve is, IMO, an art that's very similar to the art and craft that pitchers apply to baseballs.
After the world cup is over, I probably won't watch a bunch of soccer for 4 more years. I'm an American College Football fan. That's what gets me going. I can still recognize though that soccer is "the" world game, has incredibly talented players, and requires a ton of skill to play it at the highest level. I certainly wouldn't write an article putting down a game that, for some reason, the entire world views as attention worthy.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:31 am to mizzoukills
I don't have any idea who Ann Coulter is but after reading the first few lines of this I think she must be Adam Sandler's mom from The Waterboy.
Posted on 6/26/14 at 10:33 am to mizzoukills
frick Ann Coulter
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