Today is the beginning of the quadrennial World Cup soccer-football championship, hooray! Combining the best of sports and vicious nationalism, the World Cup is the one tournament that prompts even a tiny sliver of Americans to pretend to care about this sport. Naturally, this tepid amount of interest is a sinister plot cooked up by the liberal media to destroy our country. WAYS TO TELL THAT A SPORT HATES AMERICA: it is very low scoring (a sign of “nihilism, existentialism, and anomie”), and it is beloved by Latinos. [NewsBusters]- It looks like Kyrgyzstan, the most hilariously named of the -stans, is not quite done with its political unrest/ethnic violence/civil war. [NYT]
- The employees of the Arlington National Cemetery were apparently too busy hating each other all the time to bother burying people in properly marked graves. [WP]
- John Boehner thinks that BP should have to pay for the damages its oil spill caused. When will John Boehner take his boot heel off the throat of this job-creating powerhouse? [NYT]
It’s Called The ‘World Cup,’ Not The ‘USA Cup,’ Traitor
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Stupid liberal media won’t rest until we’re all knifing each other after a big “football” upset.
Only 7/10 to that Newsbuster troll. He should have pointed out how soccer is dominated by private schools at the high school level, and is mainly of interest to the richy rich limousine liberals. Real Americans actually PLAY basketball/baseball/American football until they get out of high school and become competitive hot dog eaters.
From that photo, it seems they found the missing adolescent sailor girl.
I really have never gotten the American obsession for coming up with reasons why we don’t like soccer. It’s always been rather simple to my mind: we have baseball and football, and they take up the space that soccer does in other countries. A country can only care about so many sports and teams! Crazy theory, huh?
Also, you can just not like something without having to sneer at the rest of the world for doing so! Just because the French like something (though, actually, aren’t they more into rugby?) doesn’t make it bad! And “nihilism, existentialism, and anomie”? Have they ever seen hooligans? Maybe you could pin nihilism on them, but I somehow don’t think they’re chugging Sartre down the pub.
[re=596716]Lazy Media[/re]: I’m pretty sure Real Americans actually [i]don’t[/i] play Basketball- that sport is for the negroes to play, when the want to be “clever”. Baseball, or nothing!
Sigh, Americans talking about football (yes, it is called “football” not “soccer” in the civilised world).
Next time you will tell us how to manufacture cars
or how to lose weight
or how to avoid carbon dioxide emissions.
Who gives a fuck what John Boner thinks? He’ll switch positions next week and deny he ever held another one. And never get called on it.
Presidential candidate, John McCain (R-2008), ran for president while employed as the director of an organization to assure ‘free press and media’ in Kyrgyzstan. Another job well done!
“Our country has yet to succumb to the nihilism, existentialism, and anomie that have overtaken Europe.”
Yes, chips and krispy-kreme sucking, Jesus loving plump tard skoal rebels REJECT nihilism, existentialism, and anomie! It should be our national slogan. USA! USA!
Could read Newsnutters. Mark levine was in the way trying to sell me a bumper sticker about why eventually we should exterminate all the liberals for destroying America like soccer could someday, I presume (but I couldn’t read the article because Mark levine was in the way trying to sell me a bumper sticker…)
Want to know a secret? American’s biggest problem with soccer is the fact that the clock doesn’t stop until half time, so no nice commercial breaks every 5 minutes, like at the end of an inning or a downed ball in football. Advertisers hate it and wont’ push it, therefore, no soccer in USA. That and they’re all Che worshiping commies.
[re=596719]mumblyjoe[/re]: Elitist. You’ve obviously never been to Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana or other Real American states where white boys shoot hoops in their driveways. Teh negroes dominate basketball only in your sicko, liberal-elite “cities.” I just kinda threw in baseball there; nobody actually plays that any more outside the Dominican Republic.
The guy from NewsBusters says “No game in which actually scoring goals is of such little importance could possibly occupy the attention of average Americans”.
How exactly, Mr NewsBuster, do you think people WIN games of soccer? Could it be by scoring goals?
It’s actually called “le foote”. Go North Korea!
Why don’t they just do the World cup every year instead of every four years?? It seems stupid that the supposedly most popular sport in the world that every nation loves is only played every four years; that’s an eternity in between tournaments. They don’t do the Super Bowl or World Series every four years. So what happens is you get all this pent-up “world cup fever” that explodes all over my TV and internets when it could just be a controlled release every spring that I could ignore like hockey.
God, Newsbusters is even more douchey than Mythbusters. Damn that is one douchey website. Why conservative “intellectuals” all do the same thing? They literally construct all this bullshit out of thin air, it connects with reality at no point whatsoever, but they do say it, whatever horse shit that it is, quite forcefully. The whole article is one of the most pointless, stupid exercises in politicization I’ve ever seen. See also: Anton Scalia’s opinions.
[re=596716]Lazy Media[/re]: In the UK, home of football, it is the street game only sissy public schools play rugby.
A link to Newsbusters? I thought the crazy wignut rants were usually confined to Riley’s “Rumors on the Internets” round-up. And we’ve still got a trickle of Palin-worshippers coming to praise her over in the fake boobs thread thanks to those guys being so offended that Wonkette pointed out the obvious.
Wait for the shitstorm when Biden shows up in an Altidore jersey in South Africa. Nihilism, indeed.
BTW, [re=596716]Lazy Media[/re]: you have the picture of American soccer about half right. The other half is, and always has been, the immigrants and their kids playing in the parks, and a handful of grubby little white and black kids who come along for the ride. Its that half that scares the shit out of the reactionary right – if “their” sport becomes “ours” we’ll have to be like them, or some such bs.
The reason they keep misplacing grave sites and remains at Arlington is that they spend all their time correcting the spelling of “cemetery” in every official document. Plus they’re lazy over-entitled douche bags whose PR skills far outweigh their management capabilities.
[re=596728]TweeLions[/re]: Soccer games are won by penalty kicks after 5 hours of scoreless play, actually, viz: Italy vs France, what was it, 2006?
[re=596725]red sky[/re]: Actually, if you read the Newsbusters idiot’s stats, soccer is a fairly major sport here, only slightly less popular than ice hockey (another sport that consists mainly of fruitless passing and turnovers). Averaging 16k fans per game is not rec league stuff. 16 million viewers for a World Cup final that the U.S. wasn’t even in is a big audience. The Super Duper Stanley Cup final the other night drew a 5.8 overnight rating (7 million households), and that was the best in 36 years.
Where my neoconfederate bros at to write a column bitching about that no-scoring, stealth-Canadian “sport” that only Yankees and snowbirds care about?
[re=596735]Berkeley Bear[/re]: Yep. I live in a half-Latino, half-Asian neighborhood; all the local softball fields have been turned into soccer pitches. I was just trying to juice up the Newsbuster troll’s argument a little; those guys can’t be trusted even to annoy people without some intellectual assistance. And you’re right; winger logic says soccer is the game of the poor, poverty makes you like socialism, therefore soccer causes socialism.
Yes, they DO call it the World Cup. Because it involves, you know, the world.
Whereas certain arrogant countries conjure up things they call the World Series, which involves only two countries, not the whole world. One of these things is not like the other. See how that works?
The giant tubs’o'goo who play in the NFL, accustomed to stopping the clock every fifteen seconds for a one minute timeout, couldn’t last a whole soccer match. Richard Simmons could, but not the “jocks” who beat him up in high school. One of these things is not like the other. See how that works?
And let’s not let the “vicious nationalism” of other countries spoil the World Cup, OK? There’s no reason to mock such behaviour, just because it’s the only sporting event in which no Yanks can cheer “USA1!1 WE’RE NUMBER ONE1!11!” Or is nationalism only non-vicious when y’all do it?
Anybody know where I can buy an omie? They sound so…so…European.
NASCAR is the only Real American sport since it combines our three greatest national passions: pollution, advertising and racial homogeneity.
Everything else is another liberal media lie.
[re=596719]mumblyjoe[/re]: Of course, baseball = Mescans & the Orientals.
Then there’s golf which some consider a “sport” which historically was played by honkeys. Actually, a black man invented the golf tee (George Grant) who never marketed it so a white man stole it (just like rock n roll!). But nowadays, we should just call it Tigerball.
So basically white people have lawn darts and horseshoes, that’s about it.
[re=596731]BaconTime[/re]: Public safety concerns; the European and South American cops have a hard enough time dealing with soccer riots, fan-on-fan stabbings and fans shooting players who made own goals every four years, imagine how bad it would be if it was every year.
[re=596731]BaconTime[/re]: Okay, snarkless explanation follows. The tournament that “explodes” for you every four years has been building through several rounds of qualifying over the last four years. There are over 200 countries that participated in the initial round, and given the logistics and the fact that the overwhelming number of players have to balance national side efforts with professional sports, it really does take several years to throw one of these shindigs. Track & Field only matters to most Americans once every four years, too, but there’s no real call to make the Olympics an annual event.
Soccer actually has multiple levels of tournaments for both professional and national sides going on all at once. A team in the Premiership in England may be participating in at least 4 different competitions at once (FA Cup, Premiership, Carling Cup and Champion’s League/Euroleague) and in any given year the US team is qualifying for the WC, playing in the Concacaf Gold Cup, playing in the Confederations Cup (if they did well enough in the Gold Cup), etc.
So while the WC is a monthlong orgy of soccer at the highest level, real fans are constantly going from one huge contest to another.
[re=596719]mumblyjoe[/re]: Baseball or nothing – ‘zactly so!!! And not bazebuhl [re=596727]Lazy Media[/re], baseball.
Barry knows how to throw an elbow or three from basketball, but even after practice, he’s got a long way to go on his pitching. note: He’s goin’ nowhere with that delivery. Good gravy, putting leather-soled shoes on the top of the rubber!!! Put on some spikes Mr. Prez, and set your foot in front of the rubber so you can push off the thing. Pitching is legs, legs, legs.
If he would learn how to throw some high inside cheese, might help getting Ahmadinejad’s attention.
Are all Soccerites crawling with this unpleasant Che Guevarian type gehyness, or just the specimen in this photo?
If said stoned, hippie Messican senorita, possessed of such rich natural resources and reveling in her near nekkidnees had provided a US type Real American the opportunity to survey her ample bounty, even if he drove stick, he’d oblige her (amiright?), he just wouldn’t be chanting “drill baby drill” as he did so. That’s just polite, we’re a polite folk.
Not this Soccerite though, he’s refusing to even look without ever considering what that might do to the 0.5 nekkid Senoritas self image. I don’t understand, is he french?
[re=596741]prizepig[/re]: Hah! you should post that over there. Really.
Meh. Boehner only said that so he would get off Barry’s “asses that need kicking” list. At least temporarily.
Bill O’Reilly Talking Points Memo 6/10/10
The World Cup…That Soccer Thing.
Some of you may have heard something about a thing called Soccer. Even fewer of you may have been forced to watch one of these… and I use the term loosely, “games.” I don’t know, maybe you once had to drive your neighbor’s daughter or your neighbor’s little sissy kid to play in one and you ended up having to sit around for 4 hours or however long they are to watch a 0-0 tie.
Soccer is a game that was invented in France in the 1930′s. Football was not good enough for them so they changed all the rules and called it soccer. The most disgusting thing about their new game is that the use of hands is illegal. On the surface this rule change is just simply stupid. However, it’s more than that. It’s a direct insult to God for not using the hands that their creator gave them! I’m going to get a lot of angry mail for this, but yes, the French are technically Christians even though they don’t act like it. This is why we had to rescue Europe in World War II. They wouldn’t use their hands to fight back against the English. Taking Christ out of sports is the European way. Not America’s. It’s offensive to Christians and it’s the reason that America doesn’t play this blasphemous game…except for little girls, homosexual leftists and socialist atheists. This is why I strongly discourage Christians to not only not watch it, but to not even think about it and ignore and walk away from anyone talking about it. We at The Factor do not recognize soccer as a legitimate American sport…nor any kind of sport period!
It gets worse:
These European homosexual leftist socialist types have a big tournament thing every year that they call the World Cup…which is supposed to determine the best team in the world. We at, The Factor, know this claim to be laughable. Any sporting event not conducted in the U.S., which we would never allow, and without any American participation, which we also would never allow, can NOT be called a World Cup. It is a sham…a sham.
[from off stage] “The U.S Team is in the World Cup”
Excuse me, I seem to have a future ex-producer interrupting MY show. Ok, what is it? What is so FUCKING important that you must interrupt MY show…My highest rated show in the history of TV to tell me!
[from off stage] “Sorry Mr. O’Reilly, but The U.S Team is in the World Cup”
As my viewers know, The Factor is based on facts and rock solid reporting. We do not entertain opinion and scurrilous claims, and as you recall, scurrilous was our word last week. I’ve just used it in a sentence to help, you the viewer, learn a new word. No need to thank me.
Scurrilous.
Now, I haven’t heard anything about that and it doesn’t say that on my piece of paper so I stick by my fact.
You, the viewer, deserve only my facts.
To prove even more how useless soccer is…they are having the thing in Africa!
Of all places…Africa!
This is what we know about Africa…and this comes from the CIA World Factbook:
1. Africa is the poorest country on Earth. They do not even have television so nobody can watch it.
2. Africa is in some stupid time zone which use obsolete primitive clocks that makes it impossible to watch anyway…even if we should, heaven forbid, even want to.
3. Fact: Europeans are morons. They will only encourage the Africans to learn how to play which will quickly become maybe the third or fourth biggest mistake the Europeans ever made. Within two years the Africans will beat the Europeans at their own Un-Christian game. It’s no secret to my viewers that Africans can jump higher, kick things and run faster than any European.
This is also a non-debatable fact.
My facts say that only 100,000 people would be able to watch any games and those people are mostly the few thousand Africans that will be standing at the edge of the field or watching with binoculars from the top of their shantytown projects. I believe there will be 100 or so games because 90% of them end in a 0-0 tie. They keep playing games until someone scores. This averages out to about 60 people watching each game. Feel free to do the match for yourself if you want to, but you’d be just wasting your time since I just did the math for you.
To put this into perspective, your humble correspondent, me, Bill O’Reilly, averages somewhere around 45 million viewers a day. This is a quarter of the population of America and double the population of all of Europe.
In the history of Television only the last episodes of, “M.A.S.H” and, “Seinfeld” had more viewers and those were one time events. I get 45 million every night.
So much for Europe’s Christian bashing game huh?
[re=596747]dijetlo[/re]: Just check out the first game involving Brazil. Gaurantee the cameras will spend huge amounts of time in the crowd checking out the female fans doing samba. Now, some of them may have been brought along just to be the sex toys of the drunken nuts around them, but still easy on the eyes.
[re=596739]Canuckledragger[/re]: Says the guy from the country with a professional football league consisting of dudes who couldn’t make it in the NFL. Most NFL linemen couldn’t play soccer, sure, but a lot of DBs, receivers and running backs could, like this guy. Not that many soccer players could survive on an NFL field unless they were kicking extra points.
Pointing out the idiocy of the Newsbuster column is fine, furriners, but don’t take that as an invitation to slag American sports.
I love soccer. I haven’t had insomnia since I discovered I can watch old games of it on bittorrent.
[re=596737]Lazy Media[/re]: Ok so arguing a Newsbusters article with logic is silly, we should all know that. But the 2006 World Cup Final was a night game in Germany – so it was 2pm in the US on the east coat, and 11am on the west coast. So of-fucking-course more people tuned into the prime-time World Series game.
But oh yes, let’s turn even this into some tired left-right, red state-blue state argument. I’m sure we heard this when the US women’s soccer team won the World Cup or during the Olympics.
That lady is a coward. She has 150% too much clothing for proper streaking. Yor doig it rong merika! If you want to streak, you’ve got to take off your padded bra and let those b-cups fly in the breeze. Your thong stays on the sidelines too. Show em what America is made of: USA-cups! USA-cups! USA-cups!
[re=596745]Berkeley Bear[/re]: I see Wikipedia confirms your explanation. What a clusterfuck. They should just have someone Kim Jung Ill it and choose contenders based on their personal amusement. Totalitarian rule is superior to capitalism!
[re=596743]JMP[/re]: Your explanation is more entertaining and I am inclined to believe it in lieu of the Wikipedia-backed one.
Real Amurricans (and Arizonans) hate soccer, aka foreigners’ football, because it’s the sport of illegal immigrants and socialists. Sometimes both.
“So, every four years they return with renewed
determination to force soccer’s square peg in
the round hole of American culture.” Heh.
Pretending to give a shit about the world cup sure seems to be the hipster-douche affectation of the moment.
Anyone ever seen a latino soccer pick-up game? So fun, they will play, like, 100 vs 100, unlimited numbers of players, its hilarious.
[re=596720]Herman the German[/re]: The history if it is, they were both called football. Then the Rugby Football guys started calling themselves Ruggers (probably because that’s what their faces were always getting ground into) and so the Association Football guys, not to be outdone, started calling themselves Soccers. This was all in Britain, by the way. At the point in time that the U.S. and Australia, and New Zealand (who has been trying to conform, fitfully, to international naming, but that’s a recent thing) adopted these sports, the names were different from what they are now in the English language.
German auto reliability being in the dumps like it is, I wouldn’t bring that industry up for bragging rights if I were you.
That lady on the soccer field, she has beautiful thighs.
Even though I will be wearing my USA World Cup t-shirt tomorrow, I am going to watch the game at a non-soccer bar so that I don’t have to deal with the stunned silence of casual fans when we lose.
Low scoring, beloved by Latinos and a stick in the eye to American exceptionalism…a pretty fair description of Cubs baseball.
Oh, I personally don’t care much one way or the other about soccer, except for one thing. Can we do something about all the injury faking? If I see one more Italian writhing around in agony while peeking at the ref, only to pop up and play on after the yellow card comes out, I’m gonna hurl. It’s the one thing that makes women’s soccer a better game to watch; they don’t act like pussies.
Here are my fixes for soccer: fouls are fouls, regardless of how much they supposedly hurt. Yellow cards only for deliberate kicking/punching/starting fights. No offsides penalty (fast breaks! Scoring! Less opportunity for crooked refs to throw a game!). Cheerleaders dressed in a slutty version of the national costume.
The reason they never score in soccer is because the players spend 9/10 of every game trippping over a blade of grass and grabbing their ankle, hoping to get the opponent penalized, and the other 1/10 whining to the ref in some foreign gobbledygook.
[re=596768]Lazy Media[/re]: Here in the Darkness household we have a better one: Instant replay for fouls. The refs in the booth ignore the play and defer to the ref on the ground UNLESS you writhe on the pitch. Writhe on the pitch, they look at the replay and if you dove, card. This would fundamentally change the game. And the Italians would have to settle for 4th place every tourney.
[re=596768]Lazy Media[/re]: If I ran soccer, the cheerleaders would look like strippers and players would be able to use their hands. I didn’t spend a couple million years developing thumbs only to have them flap around idly while my feet do all the work.
Italians call it calcio, Brits call it football, we call it soccer. Stop trying to correct American English for no good reason other than parochialism.
[re=596776]sigerson[/re]: Sorry, my English is not so good.
Ccould you explain me what “parochialism” is?
[re=596739]Canuckledragger[/re]: I hesitate to say I agree, what with all the Limey hatred here on my Beloved Wonkette yesterday, but I agree.
[re=596750]Escape Goat Nation[/re]: Brilliant!
If you think Americans don’t watch soccer, just come to Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio for any MLS Columbus Crew game, and I think you’ll change your tune very quickly.
[re=596751]Berkeley Bear[/re]: Goodness Berkley, I’m a talibangelical, we can’t go looking for beautiful, scantily clad, latinas wreathing in faux sexual agitation, that’d be sin. We have to stumble upon them by accident (and that aint as easy as it sounds)
Hence our fascination with Fox and it’s stable of scantily clad news-bunnies. The closest I can get to that action is when Rebecca Gomez reads the Wall Street Report in a micro mini and a halter top while perched seven feet in the air on a bicycle seat, every day at 4:30.
You should check it out.
Yes, by all means, let’s draw this line in the sand. No “liberal” soccer in this country. The terrorists will not win this battle. And if you . . . world-type-people get too pushy about this, you may start seeing drones in the South African skies. Think about that! All I’m saying is: watch your step, Pablo.
These are the desperate cries for help from a dying ideology. It’s coming down to soccer and Barbara Boxer’s haircut.
“Remember the Alamo!”
The best free broadcast on the web I have been able to find and which I have in the corner of my screen now while typing on Wonkette and pretending to work is on Univision, in Spanish.
So there.
Jesus. This entire thread and no one has yet said the plain truth about soccer (and why Americans don’t like it).
Soccer is FUCKING BORING!
Just sayin’.
[re=596808]proudgrampa[/re]: Soccer is boring but it’s non-stop boring until somebody finally wins 0-0.
Some jagoff who spends hours tap-tap-tapping on little articles for something called NewsBusters complains that soccer “lacks purposefulness?” I had not expected to reach my recommended daily allowance of irony quite so early in the morning.
[re=596808]proudgrampa[/re]: There’s a reason it’s mostly popular among yuppie parents who won’t let their kids play a game where they might get hurt.
But hey, considering the violence that soccer fans start in much of the world, imagine how worse those countries could get if the hooligans were fans of a sport that was actually exciting.
[re=596808]proudgrampa[/re]: Um…Americans are taught that watching immigrants hit foul balls in every direction eight or nine times in a row constitutes “drama.” Mamy Americans also smell like ass, I should point out.
[re=596808]proudgrampa[/re]: Yes, soccer is boring, unlike the Amurrican national pastime, Beisu Boru, with its thrill-a-minute non-stop action.
[re=596757]F*T*S*[/re]: I dunno, looked to me like the thong and bikini top had been ‘shopped. The look on her face suggests she was experiencing the joy of her body’s complete aerodynamic range.
I like the part where baseball is better for kids because it helps them face the “fear of disfigurement.”
Also, the suggestion that immigrants should adapt to America’s national pastimes. Is there a chart somewhere that helps new Americans figure out not only what languages they can and can’t speak, but also what they can and can’t enjoy?
[re=596830]Mr Blifil[/re]: no, no, say this is not so, for I pine, I burn, I perish, for love of this woman running in her joyfully aerodynamic glory. It is something about the way her legs attach to her body, the transition area there.
[re=596830]Mr Blifil[/re]: Oh, I see, I am mistaken, the bikini and thong were photo-shopped because she is NAKED in the original. I shall not rest until I have found the original, so I may view her in her complete glory.
[re=596742]El Pinche[/re]: “So basically white people have lawn darts and horseshoes, that’s about it.
Don’t forget bowling.
Her name is Tiffany May! She posed for Playboy! I am going to friend her!
Would it help sell soccer if hetero men realized that the ladies really like the builds of the gentlemen who play soccer? They and the men who play basketball are my favs…I like tight ends too. Hey! That’s not what I meant. I meant the tight end position in football. Hey! You people have filthy minds, always with the buttsecks. Anyway, consider taking up soccer, to get women.
[re=596846]McDuff[/re]: Now, there’s another sport that just finished up that is almost exclusively played by pasty white folk. But then most of them are socialist Canuck foreigners.
[re=596826]Prommie[/re]: [re=596825]Mr Blifil[/re]: Hey, I didn’t say I cared for baseball, either! And yeah, that girl is HAWT!
[re=596823]JMP[/re]: Your point is well taken. Soccer’s history of fan violence is pretty bleak.
[re=596870]proudgrampa[/re]: She makes me have sexy-time explosion in my pants.
Soccer: The Punks are in the stands.
Football: The Punks are on the field.
[re=596848]Katydid[/re]: I once read – can’t remember where – a description of a man who “had the athletic build of a professional golfer.” The ladies dig that, or so I’m told.
[re=596738]Lazy Media[/re]: Wait, I thought soccer was a symptom of people being socialist. And brown. Socialist and brown.
The Onion has an interesting perspective: http://www.theonion.com/articles/nations-soccer-fan-becoming-insufferable,17553/
I’ve hated soccer ever since, back in the 80′s, my local Neilist-approved gun club was cast aside in favor of a soccer field/pitch/whatever. Prior to this eviction, I had never even heard of soccer.
[re=596900]FMA[/re]: Like Craig Stadler? aka the Walrus, and I’m not talking about Paul.
[re=596792]arclight[/re]: Ohio is part of America?
[re=596720]Herman the German[/re]: Hey that nice warm cup of shut up is getting pretty chilly. You’d best get sipping on it.
Yay crunchy chicks!
The real anomie conspiracy is lacrosse. Soccer is weird. In the UK, the elites play and watch rugby, where men break teeth and skulls, and the hoi poloi watch cricket. They all watch soccer. Obviously, it’s due to the EU Parliament.
Okay, um, wtf with the trucknutz (or perhaps truckrumplydick) world cup trophy? I mean *really*.
[re=596792]arclight[/re]: Buy me a beer at the next match and I’ll be there.
It’s nice to know that, despite the vast political gulf between myself and the NewsBusters hack writer, we can at least agree that the Mariners’ really suck (again) this year.
[re=596984]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Sorry, it was a long friday afternoon. I was sitting on my desk and had nothing to do in my European socialist workers paradise. So I felt a little bit bored and thought it was a nice idea to do some commenting on the wonkette in order to promote mutual cultural understanding between you Americans and us Europeans.
[re=597053]Herman the German[/re]: “Parochial” is a kind way to say “ignorant and xenophobic.” Its one of the most prominent traits of US culture (which is an oxymoron).
[re=596808]proudgrampa[/re]: Proudgrampa, where you been? I missed your Blingees.
Oh yeah gods, it’s not SOCCER it’s football. Why can’t so many Americans get this one small fact correct?
[re=597148]Prommie[/re]: Oh, the US culture is not always bad. I like The Simpsons very much for instance.
[re=597394]Leo Sigh[/re]: I explained the historical reasons for this above, if you actually care rather than are just bitching. They are all football. Association football, Rugby football, and its offshoot American football. It’s not really that hard to grasp the big picture on that.
I can’t figure out why the rest of the world can’t bear that the u.s. doesn’t slather all over this game. You need our approval?? I got 5 other sports I’d rather watch, 9 if you count both the women’s and men’s separately. And I prefer sports where capricious refs and melodramatic acting don’t determine the outcome.
The only really American sport is Pro Wrestling!
[re=596792]arclight[/re]: Columbus ’til I die! More than just an accurate forecast of the rest of my life…
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