Anti Soccer Columnist Soccer fans please read the article and give this guy some feedback so he knows his view won't be taken with out a response. http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/sports/14741693.htm
Re: Anti Soccer Columnist Already being discussed as well as some excellent ways to respond: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=364180
Soccer fans, step off I'm glad to see that our journalistic future is in bright hands, what with amazing grammar skills like above. Wah, wah, wah, wah. Wah, wah, wah, wah. Mommy forgot to change his soiled diaper, so the poor baby is cranky.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060609/SPORTS05/606090392/1003/SPORTS Thanks for these invaluable contributions for the betterment of mankind.
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/060906/sports_20060609042.shtml Gee, thanks so much for the cheerful predilection! What a bright outlook about the world around us!!!
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/local/orl-whitley0906jun09,0,5840890.column?coll=orl-sports-headlines Yeah, that pretty much sums up the entire American fanbase, doesn't it?
Re: Anti Soccer Columnist """"Look, Americans are an industrious people. We use our hands. We catch footballs. We throw baseballs. We hit golf balls and tennis balls by gripping a piece of equipment. It is unnatural for us to put our hands behind our backs and try to "pass" a soccer ball to a teammate by bouncing it off our heads. We aren't circus seals, and no one is going to toss us a fish if we do it right."" The above, speically the undlined in block was funny. The rest is the usual crap.
These guys are so lame. Funny story, my brother who doesnt know or follow anything about soccer called me up today and said "I guess the world cup must be starting soon because I noticed all the bashing on sports talk radio and in the paper lately." Couldn't stop laughing. These clowns are so predictable. I'm starting to think being a member of the sports media takes about as much talent as being a window washer.
Re: Anti Soccer Columnist I was just saw this article posted on a hardcore Man United forum. All the posters there agreed, "Yanks are c-nts, we don't want them to play football anyway." Good job Mr. Powers!
No window washers require balance. The brainless bashing bobbleheads of the world would fall off the equipment.
Some funny stuff: Until then, I hope the soccer-haters can leave the soccer-lovers alone, the soccer-lovers will quit trying to push their sport on the soccer-haters and that, in the end, the entire world will unite in the one sports activity we can all get behind: Hating NASCAR.
There's a book called Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism, by Andrei S. Markovits and Steven Hellerman. In an appendix, they have a bunch of quotes from soccer-bashing articles written around the 1994 World Cup. They all sound exactly like what we're hearing now, including the one we'd assume would've died with the Cold War, that soccer = communism. Hmm, turns out there's a sample chapter from the book. Alas, it's the most boring one, but still... http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7084.html
Never understood how soccer is communist when you can (skill allowing) monopolize the ball for the entire game. Not everyone gets an equal chance.
Forgive the cross-post (from my post on a bashing thread on Soccer in the USA) but i think it's on topic. Oh, wow, what a blast from the past. I don't mean this to be condescending, but it will probably come off that way: There used to be a time when I got all wound up with self-righteous anger over [soccer-bashing columns]. Then a funny thing happened: The US made the quarters of the World Cup, and for few minutes everyone in the mainstream cared about soccer. And from that point on, I couldn't make myself care what the "bashers" thought, because it just didn't seem that important to the future of the sport. This is a bit of an unbalanced comparison, but I could write six columns a week about how I think "American Idol" is pointless. And then....?