America's Favorite National Pastime: Hating Soccer

I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average soccer game -- so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

(1) Individual 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."

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. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.
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(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

Citav clanak ovdje:
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoult ... r-n1855817

Danas sam procitao super clanak, bas sam se ismijao.

No ćens!!!
Iako ne bih imao ništa protiv da jedan ovakav sport postane ravnopravan top sportovima u Americi, to nije realno. A i da postane popularan sport u Americi, ne bi postali jaki kao što su sada u košarci. I u košarci se razlika smanjuje.

Ali teško je što ovako očekivati. Football je engleska riječ. A u Americi se sport zove soccer, dok u skoro cijelom ostatku svijeta nogomet (futbal). Oni imaju fotbal a gotovo cijelo vrijeme nose loptu u rukama u tome njihovom futbalu. Prvo moraju naučiti ispravno ga nazivati. Onda možda nešto možemo i očekivati od njih.

Cikago juce:

Verovatno, konam da tamo fudbal upisuju dece koja su manje talentovana za ostale sportove