A the Russians will score 10 times as many goals as us combined but we'll take the credit.
The Official European Football Thread
Collapse
This is a sticky topic.
X
X
-
-
Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally posted by SockfuckerI've been in several mental institutions but not in Bakersfield.Comment
-
Ann the Man says soccer is "un-American", blames it on Ted Kennedy
Jolie Lee, USA TODAY Network
9:56 a.m. EDT June 26, 2014
Soccer is destroying the USA. So says conservative syndicated columnist Ann Coulter.
Coulter went on a rant about the sport, calling it un-American in a column Wednesday headlined, "America's Favorite National Pastime: Hating Soccer."
Readers called the column "contemptible," "uneducated" and "moronic" in comments posted on The Clarion Ledger's website. The Ledger is owned by Gannett, which also owns USA TODAY. Coulter's column is distributed by Universal Press.
"Hahaha this is the biggest lot of nonsense I have ever read," one commenter wrote.
Coulter argues the reason people are watching soccer now is because of Sen. Edward Kennedy's 1965 immigration law.
"I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer," she wrote. "One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time."
She also says soccer is not a "real sport." A real sport, she argues, requires individual achievement and "the prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury."
"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," she wrote.
Tweeters also joined in on the chorus of criticism.
"Ann Coulter meets a new low. I have no words. Probably the worst column I've read. And I don't even like soccer," one person tweeted.
Alexander Hallberg @wingate32
Ann Coulter meets a new low. I have no words. Probably the worst column I 've read. And I don't even like soccer. http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/20...html#read_more …
5:29 AM - 26 Jun 2014
Some wondered if the writing was satire or "the most compelling piece of performance art you've ever seen?"
Joel Biswas @jpinkertonesq
What's the most compelling piece of performance art you've ever seen? For me, its Ann Coulter, hands down.
5:28 AM - 26 Jun 2014
Tim Hall @Kalyr
It's impossible to tell real far-right columnists from parody now - http://www.clarionledger.com/story/o...ecay/11372137/ … (via @MichaelAHann) #PoesLaw #AnnCoulter.
5:33 AM - 26 Jun 2014Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
-
Football (soccer) isn't incompatible with brains:
posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.Comment
-
OK, question from the ignorant American here.......
Why the 4 minutes of overtime in a 1-0 game?Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
-
Ive got this soccer thing down...If anyone comes near you while you have the ball,run close to them and flop like you got hit by a car..Comment
Comment