Is Soccer Un-American?
Yep. I think it is.
I mean trying just to sit thru a soccer match (game?) is tedious. They can play for what seems like hours (it usually is.) and still have a score of 0 to 0. How boring is that? Americans want to win! We can’t abide a tie! Not to mention a loss! Soccer is the sport where the losing team is told: “Well, at least you tried”. That is not good enough for Americans. Losing is NEVER acceptable to Americans. On the playing field, the battlefield, or anywhere else. Frankly, we can’t stand a loser!
Soccer is a “feel good” sport. American sports are about winning and losing. They are a form of combat. Tactics used on the battle filed are used on the sports fields of American sports. Our athletes are taught there is no substitute for winning. They are further taught that losing is unacceptable… and in the event they should lose… they are taught to never give up, nor in, until their goal of victory is reached. We don’t have “ties” in American sports.
No, I can’t accept soccer as an American sport. Now, Baseball, Football, Basketball, Nascar racing, etc, THESE are American sports. Invented right here in the good ole USA! (I don’t want to hear about cricket, and rugby! It just confuses the issue, here! I don’t want to hear about Grand Prix racing in Europe. Try explaining Grand Prix racing to a bootleg whiskey runner in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina, and you’ll quickly learn… there is NO comparison!)
No, I have come to believe that Soccer was another one of those imports by the American Left to try to make Americans fit into the Global Community. I resent the heck out of it! Our Left Wing nuts, in the government school system, (read “Public Schools”) glombed onto Soccer, instantly, as another way to “socialize” the American youth into the “global village”. As one who thinks the “Global Village” is a crock, I instantly became suspicious when soccer first made an appearance on the playgrounds of our public schools.
The other thing… soccer is cheap. It costs the schools next to nothing, compared to REAL sports, to set up a soccer team, and a soccer facility, at the school.
Soccer is a “pip squeak” sport. It is meant for those who can’t play anything else, like the Real American sports mentioned above. It is a pathetic looking thing to watch. Simply pathetic!
If soccer had a gender, it would be female. Soccer is feminine. You know, "Scoccer Moms". Ever hear of "Scoccer Dads"? Some things are just simply feminine and some are masculine. For instance: All cats are female! All dogs are male!
I’d like to see soccer banned in the USA. Just get our kids out of it, and away from it.There, I’ve said it! I know I’m not alone as a rabid “anti-soccer extremist”. Not many will speak out against the damage soccer does to our American kids.
I just did.
“Longstreet”
3 comments:
"Soccer is a “pip squeak” sport....If soccer had a gender, it would be female."
Really? Are you kidding me? That's a load of crap. Just because soccer is less aggressive than other sports does not make it a "pip squeak" sport. Soccer is a test of endurance and patience and if you think that football is more "manly" or "tough" than soccer is, then consider this: there is nobody on that field that plays the entire game. So patience and endurance are "feminine", right? I'll take that as a compliment to women. That comment about soccer being feminine, after the "pip squeak" comment, was very sexist. I thoroughly disapprove, and I'm sure many other people, not only women, do as well.
"I’d like to see soccer banned in the USA. Just get our kids out of it, and away from it."? You might as well say "Let's ban homosexually!" Hey, this IS America, correct? Do we or do we not have freedom? Is soccer not a freedom for a person to have? Please, continue to be narrow minded. This is just America. We might as well turn into communists.
"For instance: All cats are female! All dogs are male!" Someone is gender confused. How will they reproduce then? I mean, really.
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