QuoteFor the past two weeks, millions of Americans have crowded into bars and television dens to watch the World Cup. Today, millions of Americans are huddled over their desks, half-working while they watch the USA-Germany World Cup match in the background.
If only they had known that their interest in the tournament was destroying the country they call home. Need evidence? Just ask Fox News staple Ann Coulter, who recently wrote a column arguing that "any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay."
Coulter's case against soccer is far-ranging: it's "foreign," you can't use your hands, liberal moms like it, and it doesn't "present a constant threat of personal disgrace." "If more 'Americans' are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law," she concludes. "I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer."
To read the rest of Coulter's screed â€" if only for your own amusement â€" click over to her official website.
- - Scott Meslow
I knew you were immoral commies. And you're no longer moral enough to join the army, burn houses, women, children and villages after watching soccer.
Rock and roll is way ahead of you.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on June 26, 2014, 04:32:29 PM
:rotflmao:
Wtf. What does that mean?
I imagine it applies to American's dislike of the prevalence of injury faking
** screams 'usausausa' yippie
Quote...and it doesn't "present a constant threat of personal disgrace."
I think she is referring to the fact it is a very team oriented sport and therefor if the team falls the personal responsibility isn't as heavy because the team is blamed instead of any one player.
To which all I have to say is... tell that to this guy...
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Neymar has pretty much the entire hopes and dreams of the Brasilian people on his back atm to carry a somewhat weak preforming Brasilian side to both greatness as well as trying to revitalize the art form of the older Brasilian teams. Tell me more about how ANY American sport's player is under as much pressure as Neymar is atm... maybe a city, maybe a state, maybe even an entire region... but an entire country who's identity has revolved around soccer for nearly 3/4th a century wanting you to bring back the greatness of old? Fuck that, no American will ever know that pressure.
Coulter's case against soccer is far-ranging: it's "foreign," you can't use your hands, liberal moms like it, and it doesn't "present a constant threat of personal disgrace." "If more 'Americans' are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law," she concludes. "I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer."
Its foreign to the us yes, but its also the most popular sport on the planet..
Goalkeepers use their hands and also any player can also when placing the ball for a free kick or penalty and also for a throw in...
Liberal moms like it.....EH?
It doesnt present a constant threat of personal disgrace, wtf does that mean, a sport isnt a real sport unless one person can be blamed if it all goes wrong, this woman is a fkn idiot.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on June 26, 2014, 04:40:08 PM
She thinks Americans have a monopoly on disliking injury faking in team sports? I demand biological evidence confirmed by experts that this thing is something close to human. I'm OK with close enough.
Is she trying to say that there never has been any faking of injury in baseball or american football, if thats what she is saying then i repeat. This woman is a fkn idiot
And i wish you Americans would stop calling it Soccer..,. its football , it will always be football....
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Okay, I was right... from Culter's page...
QuoteIndividual 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."
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a candidate for most ignorant statement to ever have been posted on the internet, at least on the topic of soccer. It's like she took what the average American thinks about soccer and then injected it with Ameria-roids while singing the Star Spankled Banner in a Star's Striped Bikini and shooting an Ar-15 into their air with a bible in her hand for the glory of gay-hating, sinner-condemning Jesus.
Quote"I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer."
WTF?!
Americans generally do like soccer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_in_the_United_States#Present). It's not as popular as basketball or football, but it's definitely up there.
Quote from: Hydra009 on June 26, 2014, 07:35:23 PM
WTF?!
Americans generally do like soccer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_in_the_United_States#Present). It's not as popular as basketball or football, but it's definitely up there.
It is becoming more popular because little kids aren't getting racked up and their knees blown out, like can happen in American football. (sorry Green :biggrin:) Lacrosse is also growing in popularity for the same reason, since it is basically soccer with baskets. I have a grandson who was his school's quarterback. He elected to switch to Lacrosse because of the toll football took on his body.
I kindly invite Ann Coulter to go fuck herself (because nobody else will). I played soccer in high school. Yeah, I had zero talent and even less athletic ability, but I still had a blast.
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it's "foreign," you can't use your hands, liberal moms like it, and it doesn't "present a constant threat of personal disgrace." "If more 'Americans' are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law," she concludes. "I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer."
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That's it. Insulting Ann Coulter is just unamerican and you should be ashamed of yourselves and Ann Coulter can just go fuck herself. But you should still be ashamed because... Well, just because!
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(and I even hate football)
Hey, we didn't start the name Soccer, the English did, and we're too slow to change
Just like the metric system.
This is MURICA, We want our Nascar and our Football and you can keep your pansy Metric system and Soccer and modern medicine to yourselves!
Coulter must stay up late at night trying to think of bizarre things to say.
Quote from: SGOS on June 27, 2014, 08:43:44 AM
Coulter must stay up late at night trying to think of bizarre things to say.
You make it sound like she's actually putting thought into this, and that is an insult to thinkers everywhere.
Quote from: SGOS on June 27, 2014, 08:43:44 AM
Coulter must stay up late at night trying to think of bizarre things to say.
She's making a huge fortune by simply uttering outlandish insults to anything that can dimly appear as being "liberal". It's not bizarre and it does require a little bit of thinking. Mureca is great.
Quote from: Hydra009 on June 26, 2014, 07:35:23 PM
WTF?!
Americans generally do like soccer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_in_the_United_States#Present). It's not as popular as basketball or football, but it's definitely up there.
Yes it is, ok it will never be as popular as the others but its getting there...
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on June 26, 2014, 11:14:38 PM
That's it. Insulting Ann Coulter is just unamerican and you should be ashamed of yourselves and Ann Coulter can just go fuck herself. But you should still be ashamed because... Well, just because!
I never told her to go fk herself cos Hakurei got in there 1st or i would have,,,, :rotflmao: but she obviously didnt think about she was sayin before she opened hir big gob ..
Quote from: drunkenshoe on June 27, 2014, 03:43:31 AM
Yeah me too. But then there would be a confusion I guess. Because they already use 'football'. :lol:
That's what I thought she is saying.
Calling that woman idiot is insult to idiots all around the world.
Ye but some idiots are more idiotic than others
Quote from: GrinningYMIR on June 27, 2014, 07:52:38 AM
Hey, we didn't start the name Soccer, the English did, and we're too slow to change
Just like the metric system.
This is MURICA, We want our Nascar and our Football and you can keep your pansy Metric system and Soccer and modern medicine to yourselves!
Was it started by the English ? i didnt know that, thank fuck it wasnt us.....
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on June 27, 2014, 11:12:19 AM
You make it sound like she's actually putting thought into this, and that is an insult to thinkers everywhere.
Ye i agree , morons dont think they just open the gob an spout fkn nonsense.. :axe: :axe: :axe:
I'm still going with the adam's apple thing. i think she's transgender and just fucking hates everybody.
Quote from: stromboli on June 27, 2014, 02:15:12 PM
I'm still going with the adam's apple thing. i think she's transgender and just fucking hates everybody.
She's an animatronic with a failed AI system installed.
Ann Coulter loves you..kinda the same way god loves you.. Not at all.
I was loading someone's car yesterday and I was idly chatting with him, about te world cup of course. He literally quoted this woman and said "football is American, football is our sport and that's all we should play. Soccer is for pansies"
I paused for a moment with a fifty pound bag of dirt in my hand and just said "hunh"
Crazy biatch, seriously.
I played soccer in a PRIVATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 30 years ago. On a girls soccer team, even! And it was popular enough there were plenty of other teams in the area to play against.
And how is it being more of a team sport a bad thing???
Edited to add, that is NOT what soccer mom means. It means a women who busily drives her kids around to many activities, like sporting events. Anne Colter is so dumb there isn't a facepalm meme big enough to cover it.
Quote from: GrinningYMIR on June 28, 2014, 01:39:00 PM
I was loading someone's car yesterday and I was idly chatting with him, about te world cup of course. He literally quoted this woman and said "football is American, football is our sport and that's all we should play. Soccer is for pansies"
I paused for a moment with a fifty pound bag of dirt in my hand and just said "hunh"
Pansies?! I would dare him to play the game. One big difference between soccer and American football is that you have practically no padding protecting you in the former. Let him go play and get hit without the padding and see how long he would last.
I'm not a big fan of the game, no big deal, but it's no more unamerican than say.. Tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich.
You fucking commies and your tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches!
Ann Coulter will keep this up until (if) the US wins the World Cup. Then I bet she'll be saying Soccer is American as Adam's Apple Pie. :jook:
"I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer."
â€" Ann Coulter
Well technically my great grandfather was in fact not born here...so she's got me there
1 of 2. Not like it matters. Stupid nativist drivel.
Quote from: Aurora33Edited to add, that is NOT what soccer mom means. It means a women who busily drives her kids around to many activities, like sporting events. Anne Colter is so dumb there isn't a facepalm meme big enough to cover it.
Yeah. That term bothers me. What's wrong with kid being into sports or the parent transporting him/her there? And why is there no soccer dad?