[sevinufnine]

“Soccer may be good or it may be bad, but it cannot be denied that liberals hate America and love soccer and are constantly ramming it down our throats for one reason and one reason alone: France and the rest of the world love soccer and we do not. Therefore we are bad and must be made to love soccer.”

I hope you are joking because otherwise that is a massive load of donkey crap. I’m as conservative as you can get as is my husband, my father, my brother...many of my south-western Virginia farmer, gun loving neighbors. We all LOVE soccer and have for as long as I can remember. What’s liberal about that?

[Doctor 2Brains]

Try again and read carefully what I said. Soccer may have been invented by Jesus and may be the only way to heaven, but LIBERALS RAM IT DOWN OUR THROATS ONLY BECAUSE FRANCE LOVES IT AND WE DO NOT. Bet your bottom dollar, if WE LOVED SOCCER THE WAY WE LOVE FOOTBALL, LIBERALS WOULD HATE SOCCER.

[Steve_Seattle]

"What’s liberal about that?"

There is nothing liberal about soccer per se, but I have noticed - locally - that many soccer fans are attracted to soccer precisely BECAUSE it is perceived as European, internationalist, and non-American. The basis for my perception is comments made by soccer fans themselves on local sports message boards, denigrating American football and baseball, and claiming - falsely, I believe - that soccer is so much more "intellectual" than those sports.