[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Soccer by itself is merely a game and as such is not objectionable. What is objectionable is its politicization. It is hoped by the leftists that “International Soccer” will replace the purely American sports of Baseball, Football and Basketball thus showing all that we Americans are tolerant, loving, peaceful and are now officially cosmopolitan. We will belong to the world. When soccer replaces the purely American sports of Football, Basketball and Baseball it will be but one more nail in the coffin of American exceptional-ism.

[1rudeboy]

Belying the fact that football and baseball are trying to expand into other countries. And they probably will, eventually (here's hoping), despite the utter failure of those sports to market themselves abroad.

Baseball and soccer, for example, started in the U.S. around the same time . . . one became an "international" (you use that term in a derogative fashion, for some reason) and the other did not. Suffice it to say, the reason is not "leftist vs. rightist."