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America's Growing Interest in Soccer/The World Cup a Sign of 'Moral Decay', claims Ann Coulter
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 27, 2014 | David Mccormack

Posted on 06/27/2014 7:07:40 AM PDT by sevinufnine

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter believes that the country’s growing interest in soccer – fueled by Team USA’s success in the 2014 World Cup - is a sure sign of America's ‘moral decay.’

Coulter’s reasons for hating soccer include that individual achievement is not a big factor, it isn’t rough enough, and the fact that ‘it's foreign.’

As a conservative she argued that liberals only love soccer - and the metric system - because they're both 'European.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: RIghtwardHo

“Ann lost her relevancy, and marbles, a very long time ago.”

yes and it is a shame. such comments make conservatives appear rather insane IMO. we’ll all be lumped together over such words by those who want to make us all look foolish.


21 posted on 06/27/2014 7:17:53 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: sevinufnine

I think this is for laughs…


22 posted on 06/27/2014 7:18:01 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: sevinufnine

Articles like this are good for business. They generate traffic to your website. A conservative polemicist has been writing one of these World Cup columns for as long as I can remember (back to the 80’s), when I saw one in National Review.


23 posted on 06/27/2014 7:18:44 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asTgXMFoZ-s


24 posted on 06/27/2014 7:19:02 AM PDT by mylife
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To: sevinufnine
Coulter is being deliberately snarky, as is her unfortunate habit. I will agree with her on one point, however: many American soccer fans are Euro-snobs who like soccer precisely BECAUSE it is not American in origin.

Seattle is a big soccer town - 30,000 or more average attendance for MSL games - and the Euro-centrism is slavish and sickening, e.g., the announcers MUST be British in order to lend "authenticity", and the chants and flag-waving exactly mimic the pattern of European soccer fans. And many fans think that soccer is oh-so-subtle and beyond the intellectual capacity of most Americans to comprehend. These soccer fans seem utterly clueless about the huge amount of planning, preparation, mental back-and-forth, and statistical analysis that go into American football and baseball.
25 posted on 06/27/2014 7:21:41 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: sevinufnine

Whenever I’m in an Irish pub I can handle some soccer while I eat or drink. But I don’t care who wins and whenever I see an actual score it’s almost always because they are showing “highlights”.

I find some aspects of the sport interesting, but most americans just want to see more reward for your effort. That is, more actual scoring. I consider even baseball more exciting than soccer, and that’s saying something.

BTW, my daughter started out in soccer and, like all the other girls on her team, as soon as she was old enough she moved on to Basketball. My grandson did the same, only he moved on to baseball at nine.


26 posted on 06/27/2014 7:21:52 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: sagar

“I think the tranny is right on that soccer is boring”

Hardly boring at all. MUCH better than American football where it takes 4 hrs. to play a 60 minute game. Or baseball where all they do is pick at their groins and spit tobacco juice everywhere.


27 posted on 06/27/2014 7:22:09 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: Steve_Seattle
What ever became of Dirt Bike Scrambles? ☺
28 posted on 06/27/2014 7:22:53 AM PDT by mylife
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To: sevinufnine

You understand, that the American version of football, played by men who form teams of offense and defense, with downs, lines of scrimmage, tackles, passes and touchdowns, is rapidly on the road to being outlawed, because of the long-term injuries done to the players, ethnic slurs contained in the names of the teams, and various constraint of trade agreements regarding league expansions and TV coverage.

With this mainstay of sports entertainment being shuffled off the scene, there just has to be a substitute to take over as the US version disappears.

And there is one in the offing. What is called “football” in the rest of the world, but known as “Soccer” in the US, is being promoted ever more strongly, to at last wean Americans away from their reliance on the high-contact and gladiator aspect of spectator sports, for the more genteel and unisex game that involves very little body contact.

Like the way was paved for that travesty called “gay marriage”. And introduced to the US by the same devious agents.


29 posted on 06/27/2014 7:23:01 AM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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To: RIghtwardHo
Lol, not tough enough. I am a 56 year old female, weigh about what Ann weighs and have not played soccer in about 10 years. I would love to meet her on the field and introduce her to the ‘gentle sport’. Ann is an idiot who is doing her usual shrieking for attention.
30 posted on 06/27/2014 7:24:06 AM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: sevinufnine

I hope it gets all the progressive and liberal panties all tied up in knots! It’s perfect!


31 posted on 06/27/2014 7:24:12 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: ExpatGator

“Ann is an irrelevant hack. I hope the skinny bitch falls through her ass and hangs herself.”

LOL...never heard that before, but trust me I’ll use it one day when the occasion arises.


32 posted on 06/27/2014 7:24:23 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: Steve_Seattle

There’s two sides to that coin. Some of those people act like snobs because they know it pisses people like you off.


33 posted on 06/27/2014 7:24:38 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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Soccer sucks BTW!


34 posted on 06/27/2014 7:25:13 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
"30,000 or more average attendance for MSL games"

Correction: s/b MLS games.
35 posted on 06/27/2014 7:25:22 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: sagar

Why all the Ann hate? I remember when she was adored on FR.

She kind of lost me w/ the Christie and Romney lovefest, but I still admire her writing and rants.


36 posted on 06/27/2014 7:26:46 AM PDT by Tx Angel
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37 posted on 06/27/2014 7:27:00 AM PDT by mylife
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To: sevinufnine

Soccer may be good or it may be bad, but it cannot be denied that liberals hate America and love soccer and are constantly ramming it down our throats for one reason and one reason alone: France and the rest of the world love soccer and we do not. Therefore we are bad and must be made to love soccer.


38 posted on 06/27/2014 7:29:04 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: sevinufnine

Every 4 years we get silly articles touting America’s supposed new love for soccer. Mostly from the usual self-hating Americans that want so badly to pretend like they are Europeans or feel soooo ashamed that our most popular sports dwarf soccer in interest.

As if the fact that India, Australia, Ireland, Japan, and Canada also being lukewarm to the sport never crosses their mind. Nope, we are just all dumb rednecks for not seeing the wonders and sophistication of it.

Once the US is out of play, the interest in it will drop to nothing.


39 posted on 06/27/2014 7:29:17 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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When do we get Cricket? A 4 day test?


40 posted on 06/27/2014 7:29:24 AM PDT by mylife
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