Ann Coulter: "U.S Soccer fans a sign of moral decay"

excuses excuses excuses.... tsk tsk tsk

 

Mean old Ann is way off base with these comments. I'm an American, I grew up here and lived here most of my life. I went to American public schools and in all of them, up to about the 8th-Grade, during our Physical Education class (an exercise class in America), we sometimes divided up into two teams and played kick-ball.

I liked kick-ball, and I was pretty darn good at it. There's nothing wrong with kick-ball, but I can see how it doesn't adapt very well to American television, which always finds every excuse to CRAM as many commercials into every imaginable halt in most sports presentations as they possibly can! Consider how many interruptions there are in the TV presentation of an American football game, or a basketball game. Now, contrast that with how many interruptions there are in a game of kick-ball. See what I mean...?

 

You probably remember how I said "just one more Los Angeles area riot to worry about", implying there were others, and that I worried about them at some point. Riots taking place in Boston or Seattle are not as important to me, since I don't live there. I suspect the rioting in the LA area would be intense if either the US or Mexico won the world cup, due to the demographics of this area.

I hope that cleared up some of your confusion.

This post doesn't even make sense.

 

Apology accepted.

 

I suppose that makes sense, if you consider celebrations to be riots.

It does when you consider that you never responded to post #75 of this thread. I'll assume you missed it.

 

They often are.

 

Maybe Americans have soccer fever is because Team US made it out of Group G... Somehow...

 

You are probably correct. Even baseball, football, and basketball weren't so apple-pie American until capitalism figured out how to monetize them, mostly via mass media. I'm all for fueling the economic engine, but every matchup in today's NBA playoffs is a best-of-(*)(*)(*)(*)ing-seven series! Talk about boring! Professional sports in this country have been co-opted by the businessmen. I prefer capitalism to most other economic systems, but I hate it when it detracts from the beauty of the game.

 

I'd be more embarrassed if I had Nancy Pelosi and Madcow on our side. One's a complete idiot that keeps getting voted in and the other thinks liberals never do anything wrong.

 

That is true, all the new illegal immigrants are making soccer popular in the USA.

 

And all the old immigrants are playing golf.

 

Isn't soccer the most popular sport in old white Europe? And popular in non-white nations because it was brought there during colonialism?

 

Lies lies lies...

Too bad you can admit to yours. I guess you like having zero credibility.

But really I don't expect anything less from a Rightist. You are only following the lessons of you masters at Fox, Drudge, and Breitbart: lie and then never admit it even when you are called out.

 

Ann Coulter is rapidly approaching footnote status, so she has to do and say as many controversial things as possible before she's relegated to the dustbin of history, where she belongs.

 

Correct. The modern iteration of "football" (soccer) was brought to the world mostly by the British. But nobody should expect logic out of a character like Ann Coulter. She is a clown.

 

Football has many origins, and even some evidence of it being played in China around 2 or 3 BC. But there are also some classical origins in many other places, which is why football is the most popular sport all over the world...

Well, except in regions that suck at it (e.g. Africa, America, Australia, etc, etc)...

 

Shock Jock..... She is the Skip Bayless of Conservative....

 

I'm still trying to figure out what was so outrageous about what she said?

 

Wouldnt say we suck at it. I mean we are in while England, Italy, Portugal and Spain were knocked out. And we played Germany well.

Nigeria is still in. Along with Algeria both Africa countries.. Its truly a global sport. We as Americans dont usually care though unless we are one of the top teams which we are not.

 

She didn't say anything outrageous. All she did was insult football.

Plenty of blokes around the office insult football in front of me all the time. I don't get all in a tizzy about it.

 

It's popular because it's the easiest and cheapest sport to play, which is why it developed organically all throughout Eurasia. The contemporary iteration of football (association), however, was developed and spread mostly by the British. Unfortunately, they forgot to make a rule against flopping and pretending to be injured. Football fans should be embarrassed by that aspect of the game.

 

Outrageous no.. Ignorant.. yes.

 

It's outrageous only to dogmatic liberals who also hate American football and baseball.

 

I'd like to apologize. I'm sorry you're all butt-hurt over what Americans rightly call 'soccer' and we don't give a flat flippin (*)(*)(*)(*).

 

Ignorant about what?