US advances at World Cup with 1-0 win

AP ^ | June 23 2010 | RONALD BLUM

[Clemenza]

Chet, Most of the folks I see in the bars of New York cheering for Team USA are suburban-raised, upper middle class white folks. ESPN ratings are considerably higher for the games than those of Univision.

WD is right: A generation of "soccer moms" has changed things a bit. When my father was a child in the 1950s, interest in Soccer was limited to recent immigrants (in his nabe from Poland, Portugal, and Italy). Amongst 30-somethings, however, most of us played the game as kids and have a passing interest that comes to fore during the world cup (comparable to the way folks only follow gymnastics and swimming in the Olympics).

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The smart ones decide not to eat ice cream if they choose."

The smart ones can also understand what other people are saying. They don't read things into their statements and know the difference between the words Afghanistan and Iraq.

[1rudeboy]

Man, if you are going to continue to hang your hat on that . . . pathetic.

[1rudeboy]

They’re not illegal immigrants/Englishmen/people who’ve had soccer forced down their throat? No one talking-down America, or other nonsense?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Man, if you are going to continue to hang your hat on that"

Well, since I've proven all of my points, theres nothing left to do but to continuously point out your lack of reading comprehension and understanding.

[14erClimb]

Because only the token gay kid and the fat chicks were in there :) This was high school.

[Clemenza]

They’re not illegal immigrants/Englishmen/people who’ve had soccer forced down their throat? No one talking-down America, or other nonsense?

Uh, no. I know where the Poms hangout and where los mojados hang out, and I try to avoid such places.

[Nate505]

So your argument is that because a bunch of snobby Euros write in their sports section of their papers (which I’m sure a whopping 0.5% of the population in this country read) that we should like soccer, and that people call into talk radio stations saying the same thing is the equivalent of soccer being forced upon us?

I wish my mom could of used so much “force” upon me when I didn’t want to eat broccoli.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Perhaps forced in this instance is not the correct word since you are not understanding what I’m saying. I don’t mean forced in the sense that your Mom made you eat brocolli. It’s more the sense of how these Euroweenies look down on us condescendingly because we can’t appreciate the “greatness” of soccer. How there is a segment of the Euroweenie society that feels they have to dictate how we think and feel about things. Kind of like the left in this country.

The forcing part is trying to jam it more and more on our TV. Kind of like how we’ve had the WNBA forced on us these past few years. ESPN was forced to take the WNBA in order to have the NBA on their network. That kind of forced. Obviously these Euroweenies and media elites can no more force me what to do, watch or like than you can.