"We give futbol TWO snaps and a FREE kick!!"
Posted on 07/05/2006 2:13:36 PM PDT by Ebenezer
Father William Maestri with the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, Louisiana makes this damning (at least to soccer moms nationwide) remark in his latest column on The Clarion Herald, the Archdiocese's newspaper. The quote is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg as he rants in no uncertain terms against this sport which he mockingly calls "kickball".
But then, what is the Padre's sport of choice? Not basketball, not football, not even "the national pastime" of baseball. It's tennis; Wimbledon tennis!
The article is available only in .pdf format, so I urge fellow FReepers to access it through the source URL, read it, and reach your own conclusions. While I agree with Father's disdain for fútbol, "take me out to the ball game".....anytime.
<< Seek help. A huge part of the outcome of a FIFA soccer match is the way in which a player can theatrically fall to the grass pretending he's been mortally wounded as if he's been walloped in the testicles by a garden weasel.
LOL - The ref today, for the most part, was not falling for theatrics.
The NBA is just as bad if not worse, where phantom fouls often determine the outcome of a game.
What???
What about "Build it and they will come"?
I wasn't talking about the players, I was talking about the parents who put their kids in soccer programs because it's an easy sport for a youngster to play with either limited athletic ability or limited athletic ambition. Whatever you did for your kids is fine with me. You obviously raised them with something other than soccer alone.
I assume Dick Trickle is a driver, and not some horrendous disease?
And it's gotten so that, if you have an SUV so that you can haul band equipment around, you can't find one where the cargo compartment is flat because they all have enough seats for a kids' basketball team in them.
Does anyone know where I can get a new SUV with a flat cargo compartment?
We used to play soccer for PT when I was stationed in Germany, but the Post Commander outlawed it because too many soldiers were wandering around with casts or on crutches. Then again, we played full-contact, "combat", soccer.
LMAO
Hey, don't drag bowling into this!
Besides, Lacrosse is a "real" American sport! And as an added bonus, the losing team sometime died! How's that for violence?
Mark
"I assume Dick Trickle is a driver"
Yeah, he was old school and would have raced for no money.
I like the name too.
"...or just trying to pick up Brazilian chicks..."
Dude, that is TOTALLY why I played soccer for 15 years! Have you seen some of those Brazilian chicks??? : )
I played a lot of military intramural soccer, and it was definitely, always full contact. The marines were always a fun opponent because we knew it would be a tackle-fest. I really enjoyed their propensity for putting the big thugs as defenders, who were easy to jook and burn for goals.
"We give futbol TWO snaps and a FREE kick!!"
Ya know, the bottom line, for me anyway, is that any team sport is good for kids. I grew up in the country and didn't play or appreciate the value of sports. It took watching my kids to understand how the spirit of team sports translates into any walk of life - - including, and especially, the military.
AMEN! AMEN!
I love MotoGP. Hayden should do better next race, that one at Donnington was a bit of a disappointment, but it was cool the at the Assen race to have 4 American riders in the top 5 for a while. Sad to see Colin Edwards crash out on that last turn.
It's hilarious when they have the interviews after the race. You get a heavily accented Italian rider (like Rossi or Melandri), then they turn to Nicky and he busts out his Kentucky accent.
Clearly, I'm not talking about you with regard to the sour grapes. Your preference is not for soccer. Fine, we have no quarrel. As framed in the sentence you quoted, I'm talking about those who rag on the sport. The ones who can't simply enjoy their own preferred sport and let others do the same. They have to denigrate those who enjoy watching soccer, and those who play it. Real schoolyard stuff.
That's completely unfair! They don't 'do nothing' - they scratch themselves and chew gum. Sometimes they even have a 'bench-clearing brawl' (i.e. a wicked slap-fight that doesn't end until someone breaks a nail).
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