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TierbsHsotBoobs
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People forget that the US only beat the Russians for the gold medal because they tied Sweden in group play:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_1980_Winter_Olympics
Had the US lost to Sweden, the Russians would still have gotten the gold.
Oh, and the US has to beat Finland, but people here usually remember that one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_1980_Winter_Olympics
Had the US lost to Sweden, the Russians would still have gotten the gold.
Oh, and the US has to beat Finland, but people here usually remember that one.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want us to lose. I never want America to lose at any organized sporting event. I just think soccer is a slapdick sport that licks monkey balls, so I am not cheering for them to win. But, I would rather them win and be King of the Fags, than lose and be the rectal pin cushion for the rest of the world.
When is this going to be? The MLS is the professional league here. Real soccer fans don't even watch it.
Soccer is fun. I liked playing it when I was a kid and like coaching it now. It never got in the way of the sports I was serious about when I was a kid, and I've battled hard to make sure my own son is better at baseball than soccer since he doesn't like football.
I can watch about half a game once a week on TV. It's interesting for me because I've coached at a medium level of play (skilled 14 year olds) and I compare what they're doing to what I can get out of the kids, hopefully learning something in the process. That's about all I can watch though. It's a little boring after a bit and there's a lot of gayness going around that makes me feel guilty for watching somehow.
Just thought I'd throw that little confession out there. You all can blow me.
I can watch about half a game once a week on TV. It's interesting for me because I've coached at a medium level of play (skilled 14 year olds) and I compare what they're doing to what I can get out of the kids, hopefully learning something in the process. That's about all I can watch though. It's a little boring after a bit and there's a lot of gayness going around that makes me feel guilty for watching somehow.
Just thought I'd throw that little confession out there. You all can blow me.
MikeDamone
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Sounds like she got the reaction out of you she was shooting for.
What I find amusing is how pissed off the soccer tards get when people bash soccer. There are sports I like that other people don't and if they trash those sports I don't give a fuck. You assholes are like Islamist or other religious fanatics that insist people believe the same shit you do.
In fact, the main reason I bash soccer is to push the buttons of people like you.
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topdawgnc
New Fish
she boom roasted your theory right here (emphasis mine):
Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear -- again -- about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."
The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)
Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.
Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.
If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.
GrundleStiltzkin
New Fish
Read an article in WSJ or someplace last month, and it had stuff from post WWI where people thought doughboys would bring back the love, along with the clap, from Europe.
I know, great linkage as always.
MikeDamone
Well-known poster
I guess you "laughing" comes across on the internet as a angry rant. Nothing in your post suggested anything but being a pissed off soccer homo.
MikeDamone
Well-known poster
Sounds like you want America to fail so you can be right.