Posted on 09/12/2013 12:07:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
D.C. United, a Major League Soccer team, is going to be helping to publicize Obamacare's new exchange. Wait, you may be asking — how can this be happening? Earlier this summer, the Obama administration, attempting to copy a Massachusetts campaign to use the Red Sox to publicize Romneycare, floated a plan to enlist the National Football League to raise awareness of the new health care exchanges. In response, Republican leaders sent a threatening letter to the NFL warning it to stay out. And, for good measure, it sent the same letter to all the other major leagues: Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Professional Golf Association, and NASCAR.
Except (and I certainly didn't notice this at the time) the list of leagues the Republicans threatened does not include Major League Soccer — reflecting either the Republicans' failure to realize that Major League Soccer exists, or a principled refusal to recognize soccer as a legitimate sport. I didn't think it was possible to find a way to make Republicans hate soccer more than they already do, but it associating it with Obamacare may just do it.
It’s a terribly boring sport to watch but I don’t think it has anything to do with R vs D (I even have a couple Republican friends who watch it, for reasons unknown to me). As much as the media wants to push soccer on Americans, most of us just don’t like it and so nobody probably even thought to ask MLS teams not to market Obamacare.
Not enough driving on the goal. Men's soccer seems to be about wearing out your opponent and picking up a goal if you're lucky. The women seemed to think the object of the game was to score goals.
Also the only time the women were on the ground was when they were knocked down. I didn't see any flopping like I see in men's soccer.
As for the breaks, I watch most sports on the DVR so I can skip the commercials, time outs and committee meetings.
It's not easy to score. That's why soccer fans like it . . . there isn't any throwing the ball into the endzone and drawing an interference call.
Third world kickball
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