“Man for man, at the individual soldier level, the World War II German army was as good as any in modern times. Germany is a soccer playing country. Maybe we’d have better results here if we scrapped the gridiron game and played more real football like they do in Germany.”
Yeah and we kicked their asses because we play American Football. What better results are you talking about?
The American fighting man didn’t lose Viet Nam, or Korea. The politicians did. The American fighting man is still the best warrior on the face of the planet.
The wussification of America begins with soccer. No one wants to see a game played by a bunch of lawn fairies.
Not able to hide his predicament behind pads, helmets, TV timeouts, change of possessions or two minute warnings, Butcher just got a bandage and kept playing until the end of the game when he, his bandage and uniform were all bloody.
And Butcher's team won the game.
There's nothing wrong about favoring certain sports over others but I think we step on shaky ground when we broadly brush moral virtues or failures merely because of what team sport somebody happens to play or be good at.
I have to say that the lack of scoring is often an easy turn off to people who grew up watching American sports.