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Soccer: Part Deux
Ann Coulter - OP/ED Weekly Column ^ | 7-2-2014 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 07/03/2014 9:41:41 AM PDT by smoothsailing

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1 posted on 07/03/2014 9:41:41 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

I agree...soccer sucks. However, Ms. Coulter still needs to eat more.


2 posted on 07/03/2014 9:44:54 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: smoothsailing
Coulter searching for one more bite at the troll buffet.

Shouldn't she be out floating "Romney in 2016" trial balloons at this point?

3 posted on 07/03/2014 9:47:16 AM PDT by gdani (Every day, your Govt surveils you more than the day before)
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To: smoothsailing

She nailed it again!! I’m really tired of being scolded for not being enamored with a game that looks like a mass track meet without a clearly defined finish line.


4 posted on 07/03/2014 9:48:00 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: gdani

She’s been on Hannity quite a bit. She’ll never shed her GOPe cloak with me.


5 posted on 07/03/2014 9:50:19 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: hal ogen

Coulter knows what kind of article pads her bank account. Her soccer schtick is doing wonders in that department.


6 posted on 07/03/2014 9:50:21 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: smoothsailing

I don’t get these articles on soccer.

It could be summed up in one sentence.

“Most Americans don’t like soccer but it is very popular in much of the world.”

Period.

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7 posted on 07/03/2014 9:50:25 AM PDT by Mears
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To: smoothsailing

Anne really needs to get over. Yes people like this sport. And as such they would like more people to like it. And some of them are jerks about it, because some people are just jerks. Being a jerk back doesn’t fix anything, just shows you to be a shrill nasty person. We get it, she doesn’t like soccer, I really don’t either, so I watch something else. Not terribly difficult.


8 posted on 07/03/2014 9:51:56 AM PDT by discostu (Ladies and gentlemen watch Ruth!)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Milking Click Bait for All It’s Worth: Part Deux


9 posted on 07/03/2014 9:52:58 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: smoothsailing
Another crucial role of the refs is to stop the games for a "heat rest." Tell that to NFL players in New Orleans or Miami, where regular-season games have reached temperatures of over 100 degrees. Two Super Bowls hit temperatures above 80 degrees -- and football players are wearing about 100 pounds of gear, not the airy frocks of soccer players.

This is just ridiculous. This was the first time there has been "heat rest" in soccer. Otherwise the 11 players are out running for 2 45 minutes halves with only 3 possible subs. In football, most players play 40 or so plays at most, with each play being about 10 to 15 seconds, than 25 to 40 seconds of rest, then off the field while the other parts of the team come off the field. Football is a physical brutal game to play, but because of the hits, not because they are out running all the time.

10 posted on 07/03/2014 9:52:59 AM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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She is not being serious.....she’s poking fun at the hoopla.


11 posted on 07/03/2014 9:54:06 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: smoothsailing
Catherine Thompson sniped in Talking Points Memo: "It's worth noting that aside from the Olympics, the World Cup is really the only occasion when an American audience gets a chance to cheer on a national -- rather than a regional -- sports team. But apparently that doesn't jibe with Coulter's vision of patriotism."

Aside from the Olympics? Yes, and aside from ABBA, Fiendens musik is the biggest Swedish rock band. Aside from that gigantic "aside from," it's still not true. Has Thompson ever heard of the Ryder Cup, the Davis Cup or the America's Cup? Apparently, those competitions don't jibe with Thompson's vision of patriotism.

Uh, Ann? Those three sports are "boring," too. You have a fine head on your shoulders, but you didn't use it here.
12 posted on 07/03/2014 9:54:45 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: smoothsailing
Even the players would rather watch the action in the stands than what's happening on the field.
LOL ... she nails it - BORING!!!!
13 posted on 07/03/2014 9:55:23 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: pfflier

LOL!


14 posted on 07/03/2014 9:56:03 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Mears

I’ve noticed a subtle shift this year. Instead of “Most Americans don’t like soccer but it is very popular in much of the world” most of the columns lean toward, “Most Americans don’t like soccer because it is becoming more popular in the United States.”


15 posted on 07/03/2014 9:59:16 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: hal ogen

Nick Wing and Paige Lavender? Really? LOL, parents really need to be more careful.


16 posted on 07/03/2014 9:59:31 AM PDT by defconw (LUTFA!)
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To: pfflier

Did you know that all players on a team run an average of 62 miles per game?

That works out to a 10K run for each player. And it takes them 90 minutes to do it. Granted it done in anaerobic spurts, but I used to run 10K in less than 45 minutes.


17 posted on 07/03/2014 10:00:07 AM PDT by waredbird
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To: smoothsailing
Another crucial role of the refs is to stop the games for a "heat rest." Tell that to NFL players in New Orleans or Miami, where regular-season games have reached temperatures of over 100 degrees. Two Super Bowls hit temperatures above 80 degrees

Football players get FAR more rest than soccer players.

-- and football players are wearing about 100 pounds of gear, not the airy frocks of soccer players.

100 pounds? What a buffoon.

18 posted on 07/03/2014 10:00:18 AM PDT by gdani (Every day, your Govt surveils you more than the day before)
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To: 1rudeboy

:-)


19 posted on 07/03/2014 10:01:36 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears
“Most Americans don’t like soccer but it is very popular in much of the world.”

I think her other point is that the left gets in a snit when Americans refuse to go whole hog for soccer. But truthfully, I think the coasty leftists would hate it if America went full in for soccer, because then if wouldn't be exclusively coastal and lefty and "sophisticated" and "international" anymore, but would carry the taint of the flyover states.

20 posted on 07/03/2014 10:04:21 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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