Posted on 07/27/2023 9:45:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
What happened? Who started it and why? When will it end? Will it ever end? Or is it over when it’s over for you, when you no longer can stomach it?
Why have the most influential forces in sports — TV execs, advertisers, the media and the top administrative authorities — determined that our sports be denuded of sports? Why have the conceited, vulgar and selfish — assorted creeps antithetical to sports — been given the keys to the kingdom? Even if it remains flabbergasting, it’s hardly a surprise that Fox and marketing geniuses seized upon the overwhelming disgust with Team Obnoxious, the 2019 U.S. Women’s World Cup Championship team — a literal turnoff among even the most willing and eager “USA! USA!” chanters — then repackaged it as the reason to again both watch and root for “our gals.”
Again, the excessive, me-first, all-about-me antics of vulgar Megan Rapinoe, wildly unpopular among her country’s right-minded populace, has been restored as someone everyone loves and admires. How could Fox, the exclusive U.S. rights holder, have missed what America saw so plainly as nauseating — even if President Biden bestowed the country’s highest civilian medal on her for reasons unknown? Was Biden’s selection committee particularly impressed with Rapinoe’s full-field, rub-it-in solo victory lap after scoring to make it 9-0 over Thailand in a 13-0 final? Or the way she used the F-word in addressing an NYC crowd that was loaded with kids?
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It seems that they're the ones rooting against our country, so no.
I never root against America. NEVER. However, just like the title says, this team is really hard to root for. I’m simply indifferent.
Rush was right, liberals ruin everything they touch.
The last few years have shown that we are an occupied country; I do not feel this current charade is “our country”. It isn’t a new feeling, but the occupiers have been so in-your-face as to leave no doubts.
The occupiers have no idea how they can get any normals to re-engage in their Bolshevik kleptocracy; it is no wonder civic groups are dying while work ethics have disappeared for the most part.
Philly is a Football Town and a Baseball Town
Soccer isn’t even mentioned.
The letters “US” should be removed from their title.
I;m not watching (self-confessed sports nut).
I'll watch an EPL game or the cup tournament matches, but MLS? No. And women's soccer?! NO!
The only reason the WNBA survives is that it is subsidized by the NBA, and shilled for by ESPN which also happens to broadcast the games.
ESPN prominently displays the WNBA like it’s the most popular league, especially during the Finals.
What’s funny is they threw a parade for the winning team, and nobody showed up.
“Soccer is Un-American. It will NEVEE be popular here. It is the UN of Sports.”
That’s why they play it in grade school. Half the students are from soccer countries anyway.
Yep.
“Soccer is Un-American.”
By the way, the “US Women’s Soccer Team” has no relationship with our government.
Their governing body is called “The United States Soccer Federation”. Wikipedia refers to it as “official”, but as I say it has no tie with our government.
My point is that it’s a stretch to say that it represents the citizens of the United States.
When women’s soccer gets rid of it’s American hating lesbian skanks then it may be watchable.
Me too!!! Hope they get DESTROYED!
G A R B A G E in every sense of the word.
Is it wrong for me to root against our country?
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Of course! But you can root against this GARBAGE at every opportunity!
Stop wasting our tax dollars on sports in schools. At one of the top high school foolsball programs in Tulsa, their coach makes roughly double what a math teacher makes.
That's beyond stupid.
Don't throw the sport under the bus just because of some of the jerks who either play or follow it. I am very upset with the antics of some on the American Women's World Cup team. That said, there are plenty of players, owners, and coaches in traditional American sports who disrespect our nation and what it stands for.
This reads right like out of a marketing campaign.
Kickball doesn't "transcend politics" when it IS politics instead of a sport.
The athletic prowess of the women's teams are no more impressive than a random team of 14-year old boys.
It is not a "capitalistic" sport "despite socialism". It's a good example of socialism.
-Taxpayers are forced to fund it.
-Losing teams don't fold out of the league.
-The women are paid a far higher percentage of what they bring in compared to the men and that pay increase is paid for by the fans of the men's teams.
IMHO, there is very little in the world more boring that NFL football. Maybe watching golf..
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