Hilarious Guardian article on US 'soccer'!

Ha, liked it the approach was nice. A good change from the usual.
Thanks for the link.

 

What a bunch of BS!

Not a week goes by that a school doesn't drop gridiron for soccer?!?!? Maybe there are a few small schools that don't have the enrollment for football, but this statement is absurd! Football is what allow$ schools to play other sports like soccer.

Communities are actually trying to raise taxes to build soccer pitches?!?!? While there have been a couple of SSS built off the community dollar, this nut would have his readers believe it's more widespread. Somebody should ask this guy, "Do you know the way to San Jose?"

To top it off, he makes his little political comments about Bush. What, did he learn all this soccer info while he was visiting Ohio while delivering the messages from Guardian readers who were asked to persuade Ohio folks to vote for Kerry (how did that work out for them anyway? )?

As much as I would like to see the growth of American soccer, it won't be ushered in by Godless commies wearing hot pink spandex kits as this idiot would like his readers to believe.

 

American sports are FAR more socialist than World Soccer. World Soccer is a highly indepent free market with very few guidelines as compared to American sports. I think it's a reason why more American businessmen are trying to get into the market.

America won't become successful at soccer following the euro-socialist least common denominator ideals, it'll become successful following our American exceptionalism ideals. It'll become successful doing things differently and better than anyone ever has in the sport. It'll become successful using the "steroid fed overgrown athletes" that are just far superior to anything anyone else has.

 

You might want to get your humor detector tuned up. When you bring it in, tell the mechanic that you're having particular problems with the characteristically dry style of English humor. That may help him/her spot the problem.

 

Interesting article. Why waste time with research when you can just make the whole thing up. Of course, if it was posted in a BS forum, people would be saying "Link? Link?"

 

How does the article apply to DC United, and specifically, our chances this weekend? I'll admit, I'm lazy and didn't click the link, but just curious if there is a reason to follow through to read about DC.

Tim

 

Jesus....people!

 

Reminds me of some of Ian's articles! Btw, the chasm that he doesn't understand and frankly most people in the world can't fathom is the difference between soccer players and soccer fans. Communities DO raise money for soccer pitches (but not soccer stadiums to watch the game), other sports are lacking athletes due to soccer's following (but other sports aren't losing their viewers to rabid MLS or EPL fans), etc. It's very different.

 

The Guardian is a sociailst, hysterically anti-American rag.

 

MLS is run as a socialist league, no one can deny that, even if we don't like it its the way it works for now, the only way.

If one comes to visit America, will be able to see soccer fields over soccer fields all over our land. We all know youth soccer has been growing and growing, the only sad fact is that the youth does not follow professional soccer or the world soccer for that matter, maybe a very small precentage eventualy become spectators and fans but the process is very LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

i do wish he was right when he said that soccer is a plague and eating America from inside out eventualy sports like baseball, basketball and gridiron are all doomed to extinction.


and this thread should be moved to Soccer in USA

 

i think that the part about schools dropping grids in favor of soccer is true. i have attended 2 colleges in my search for a degree (which i hope i will one get). at my 1st college, university of north carolina at greensboro, they didnt have a football team because of lack of support and the big donors to the school said no, they favored soccer more. in fact our homecoming was a soccer match, and it was huge! at my next college, georgia state university, there is no football either. soccer is the main sport there too. since georgia state is in the heart of downtown there is no place to put a soccer field, the panthers have began to play at the a-league's atlanta silverbacks stadium. so i think that soccer will start to replace soccer at many schools but only the smaller colleges and universities, as for the big ones, i doubt it will ever happen because of the ncaa and their conferences.

 

Here's a link decrying the decrease in High School football. SF Cron

Here's a link concerning raising taxes for more soccer fields (amoung other things) Myrtle Beach

 

Don't give up on us all, my friend ... that was a great laugh in spite of the stuck piggies. This link is going into my bookmarks ...

http://www.playlouder.com/feature/+swells/

 

As a former Republican for 20 years whose had enough of the fear mongering, isolationism, general US cluelessness about anything outside their borders, and especially the religous freaks (yes, in other countries we call people who are religous, censor driven, control minded, small minded and who want family values, terrorists and radicals - we just lump them in with the nuts) while here we praise them. It's different here of course. Our religous nuts are right! Not like theirs.

I had no faith in Kerry, but two more years of the puppet who has failed at everything in his life, partied, was a bad parent, was weak because he had everything handed to him and then found God, and is trying to tell me how to live (a-hole) because he couldn't handle it, along with Rep Congress means bad things for us.

Sad days ahead. Angry, fat, rich, white clueless a-holes run our country. Of course the rest of the world can't stand us. BTW - I am a white business man who has cash and I see the stupidity in Bush.

Religion and guns in cohoots. Censorship. Stop abortion and stem cell research. Gays aren't people.
The fat spoiled Yank in fear because their lives are so easy vote for a moron with absolutely no track record or ability or success. From the outside looking in, it isn't pretty. It's actually pathetic at this point.

Rememeber family values were the main reason people voted for Bush. Terror two.

The vote is religous clueless nuts here, called radicals and terrorists anywhere else, and fear because or lives are so isolated and cushy.

The country is going backward. Unfreaking believable.

 

huh? that's weird


I'm not a Gaurdian reader, so maybe that's why I'm confused. Interesting piece, a little different. Is it meant to be informative or is it just for comedy? Was it making fun of soccer (by saying it's a gay sport), or was it aiming more for a political view?

 

This tail paragraph literally had me rolling around the office (I'm the only Democrat here) howling with laughter. Of course, when I showed it to my co-workers, none of them laughed. Then again, that made me laugh even more

--kravi

 

Response to T Nitty:

It was a tongue in cheek approach to what is quite obvious to most, that the "majority" of sports fans in the USA do not think of soccer as a real sprt and that a portion of people in the US consider the borders of the US as "the ends of the earth" I think the bit about calling Red Sox world champions says it all. Plain and simple although many on these BS baords think of soccer/football as the best sport in the world, most of the US population thinks of it as a boring/girlie/stupid/ sport. Long story short, for those with a broken sarcasm antennae. The sport most US citizens ignore is creeping up on them. Anyhow...back to the matter at hand



Seeing as there more important issues for DC right now this thread should be moved to the Soccer in a America thread me thinks. show of hands?......

 

Georgia State has never had football. They do, however, have a great radio station. Sure warped my musical perspective.

 

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