[jolie560]

This is an interesting way to compare a sport with current events. Makes sense in this analysis.

[Red Badger]

Now is the soccer of our discontents........

[Strategerist]

http://www.soccersucks.org

[Tacis]

Only read the posted paragraph so I don't know who is talking. Hoever, notice the usage of the American term, "soccer," instead of the annoying label that the Eurinals use, i.e., "football." There was a Brit on TV last night (PBS?) who also said "soccer." Does this mean that the Eurinals are abandoning their mistaken label and adopting proper sports terminology?

[rdb3]

Never could get into soccer. I found it boring even when playing it.

Now, lining up as a DE on the weak side using a rip technique on a run blitz is a thrill like no other, provided that you don't hit a 320lb. pulling guard first. That's a real sport.

[KC_Conspirator]

This ia a stoopid, stoopid article. NASCAR might be a better comparison.

If anything, Europeans don't like Americans getting good at soccer because its the last thing they can still beat Americans at.

[dr_lew]

I recall a videotape of Osama in one of those post 9/11 brags that he did, where he used a soccer metaphor, with Al Qaeda and USA as opposing teams. Wasn't it presented as a dream he had had ? Anyway, one commentator wrote that the downfall of Al Qaeda would be that they didn't understand football ( meaning REAL football, of course. )