[LibertarianLiz]

It was years ago. The first professional soccer team in Seattle (it folded after a year or two). My brother (lefty) and his son (raised by two leftys) wanted to see a soccer game, so we went. They liked it, I was grateful when it was over. Seattle now has a new professional soccer team (The Sounders), and the left has now brain-washed enough young people where they can actually get a fairly full stadium. However, they have this habit of linking arms and walking down the streets to the stadium. Is that normal?

Again, I re-iterate, that I was mostly teasing my daughters about this; probably stemming from my dislike of the game.

[the scotsman]

Ach, you need to come to Europe and watch some real top-level teams. Although to be fair, the MLS is far better than it was years ago.

Arms linking is not uncommon, not weird, Euro/UK fans don’t tend to do it, but are very physically passionate about celebrating, cheering. We’d tend to move en masse, waving flags, singing, maybe not the arms together, lol.

I think you’d enjoy a game over here, with the history and the atmosphere, allied to a higher standard of play. At the very least youd enjoy the atmosphere and passion. Again, give rugby a try if soccer isn’t for you.

People aren’t brainwashed into soccer. They follow it because they love it, as I do, and I have loved it since I was five. Just as other people love their sports. I love soccer, think its a great game, not boring at all. I cant understand why anyone watches baseball, and I understand why the vast majority of Brits, Irish and Europeans/Aussies/Kiwis/S Africans etc laugh at gridiron.

You take to a sport or you don’t. C’est la vie.