Maybe so, but I am not the one saying that because you don't appreciate the sports I appreciate, that makes you ignorant, or a bad countryman or anything like that.
In case you haven't noticed, I haven't set up a thread talking down to other FReepers due to their lack of support for any of my favorite activities, including bowling or softball. Why, you may ask? Because I am secure in MY enjoyment of said activities and because I have a sense of humor about said activities, namely,
- I fully realize that any activity where you can actually get better the more beer you have in you, ain't a sport, and
- I also realize that any activity that typically requires you to rent your shoes ain't a sport.
You see, I have a sense of humor about it, I don't get offended when others put down my favorite activities...I just wish the succer fans would develop the same sense of humor about their so-called "sport."
I get it...WE (the vast majority of Americans) get it. YOU like succer, and we applaud you for that, I guess. Just don't try to tell us we're unpatriotic for not caring one whit about the US team in the "world cup," because all you accomplish is make us dislike succer even more, and then make it personal.
No one is calling you unpatriotic. We are simply discussing the limits of your patriotism.
I'd just like to say that you're either misunderstanding or ignorant. We are not saying you have to like soccer or you're stupid, unpatriotic, whatnot. We're saying that America is playing in the world-cup. Hate soccer if you want. Just don't come onto a world cup thread, bash our team, and disrupt our thread. Hate soccer, if you must, but don't go out of your way to bash the U.S.A.
And, as a sidepoint, the reason soccer doesn't seem to have a sense of humour is that people continually bash it well beyond the points of rationality. Sure, not everyone like softball or bowling. But they don't ALWAYS go out of their way to mock the sport. We accept that it is a sport and that's that.
(Yes, this is a useless debate. Freepers will still bash soccer and our team. But it's a good vent :)