I’ve never been a soccer fan. Not of watching it, anyway. Playing in gym class was fun, especially if you were a defender and got to spend half the game standing around watching what was going on on the other end. “D” was where I played, because even when I was young and could run, I wasn’t exactly what you’d call fast. Watching, well, for me that leaves a lot to be desired.
They kick the ball all the way down the field and then the other team kicks it the other way, and back and forth it goes and then once or twice a game (or match, I guess I should say) somebody scores and there is much rejoicing. Not my thing. IMHO, if you have a sport where you don’t actually control the item of play in your hands or in a stick or something, you need to play it in a smaller venue than a 12 acre field – this is why, for instance, the MISL is much more entertaining than FIBA. Soccer in a hockey rink – the only thing that would make it more entertaining would be if they kept the ice. But I don’t resent other people who like it.
Though I didn’t get past freshman football in school, I can honestly tell you, Ann, that there’s not a lot of glory for an offensive tackle. Shame, maybe, if you happen to be holding on a touchdown or something, but that’s about it.
Of course, Ann looks like somebody who got made fun of so badly in gym class that she decided to go for gender reassignment surgery in hopes of not being picked last at field hockey or something.
I’m sure that what brother Ann really doesn’t like about soccer is all the goddamn foreigners that seem to love it. A lot of them aren’t even white, fer chrissakes!
But it’s a low-cost sport that anybody in any shithole place like Pakistan, Somalia, or West Texas can play. I mean all you need is a flat spot and a ball (or maybe a decapitated head if you’re in Afghanistan) and you’re good to go. It’s not like they can afford a lot of equipment to play football (or even worse, hockey – if your kid decides to play hockey, you’re screwed ‘cuz between the skates and pads and helmets, you better be prepared to take out a second mortgage).
Though I’m sure Ann hates hockey, too, ‘cuz it’s the sport of those socialists to the north (look on the bright side though, Ann – the Canadians call it “soccer,” too).
But, anyway, despite Ann’s disapproval, the World Cup ratings are sky high(ish) and ‘merica has caught Futball Fever, which I expect to last until the USA loses in the next round, and people realize that you can’t lose and keep advancing forever.
Then we can all go back to watching American sports, like the one where if you get a hit 1 time out of 3, you’re a Hall-of-Famer. Assuming you weren’t having somebody give you a shot of HGH in the ass or something – ‘cuz this is American, man. Cheating is fine, but getting caught is shameful.
For some reason or another I read Ann Coulter as Ann Curry and was on the verge of getting upset with all the insults PJ typed.
Ann is a very transparent achtung whore. She is desperate to keep her face out there so she sticks out her adam’s apple as ofter as she can to preserve those book sales. A good number of the RWNJs seem to perform on that basis and likely do not even believe their feces flingings while their follerin’ ignunts eat up with a scowl. Sometimes if can actually stand to watch AC, a little different smirk or sneer crosses he hideous pie hole like even she has gone to far into derangement. About the only time I see her in anything other than excerpts is when she is on Real Time and Maher looks at her and she knows he knows.
Yeah, she thinks she’s being funny and she likes to tweak liberals and then call them humorless (which, let’s face it, many of them are) when they react to her nonsense. Also good for tossing out red meat to all the knuckledragging teabaggers out there (who get her books as”incentives” for donating money to teabagger candidates, since her sales are mainly bulk sales to Koch-funded groups).
She’s a female Lonesome Rhodes (though nowhere near as likable as Andy Griffith).
They have this obnoxious and disingenuous tactic of acting like they are some kind of journalists/dispensers of itruth and when they get called on shit, all of the sudden they are just entertainers/satirists/comedians just like Srewart and Colbert. Meanwhile their droppings have already infected the ‘minds’ of their faithul who would never see or comprehend any consequent refutations.
And so, another weekend draws to a close….
“I get that this state is an oil state, but is this town built on a gas leak? It’s like a vortex of morons.”
PS Maron holds a pen funny.