American Soccer Fans Apparently...

[RecycleMichael]

You guys find me and I will buy you a beer.

[davideinstein]

Last minute opted for Fassler. Insane environment.

[guido911]

No better to place this story on the flopping going on at the World Cup (of wusses)

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-world-rankings-of-flopping-1403660175

[TulsaRufnex]

Now you're just trolling...

USA!  USA!  USA!

[DolfanBob]

No better to place this story on the flopping going on at the World Cup (of wusses)

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-world-rankings-of-flopping-1403660175

You know. I've seen punters do that in Football. You do like Football? Right? 

[heironymouspasparagus]

So much pain and suffering to be endured by the players....how can we allow this much torture and torment to happen in this day and age?

They flop more than the NBA!!  That has always seemed to be the "gold standard" of flopping until now.


Oh, yeah...they have more kindergarten level "biters" than other sports, too!  Do their parents teach them nothing in childhood??

[RecycleMichael]

I hope the USA team scores an early touchdown. That would be a real home run.

[guido911]

You know. I've seen punters do that in Football. You do like Football? Right? 

Yep. Saw that in basketball too. And those folks get rightly called out as well. Not my fault that a story was done on this subject. I mean seriously, it's not as if people are biting each other or demanding they get paid cash or they will not play.

[TulsaRufnex]

Not my fault that a story was done on this subject.

Actually it is kinda your fault.
Political conservatives trot this crap out every four years...
And anytime the conservative media can find a convenient scapegoat, lemmings like you lap it up....

Here's a nice saucer full of steaming crap for ya, brought to you by the shameless Ann Coulter... lap it up, sucker!  

Coulter: Any growing interest in soccer a sign of nation's moral decay
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/06/25/coulter-growing-interest-soccer-sign-nations-moral-decay/11372137/

Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Actually it is kinda your fault.
When the conservative media finds a scapegoat, you dupes lap it up like flies on... well....

Here's nice saucer of steaming crap for ya, brought to you by the shameless Ann Coulter... lap it up, sucker! 

Coulter: Any growing interest in soccer a sign of nation's moral decay
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/06/25/coulter-growing-interest-soccer-sign-nations-moral-decay/11372137/

You give Coulter WAY too much credence - and credit....anyone with even just half a brain knows what kind of low-life she is....she takes a germ of truth and spins it into a sticky, smelly, swamp sludge with the most obnoxious odor imaginable.  The germ of truth here is that relatively few people in this country really follow soccer. 

The rest of her story is the glorification of football as some kind of Holy Grail of sports....and hockey??  Well, they pretty much all appeal to our baser natures for blood sport.  (Ever sit in the stands and here the phrase "kill 'em" being shouted?) Those two, plus basketball, and the "ring fighter" things like UFC.  Soccer has way to much violence, but it stems from fans rather than the game - but it does seem like the game is trying to "catch up" with the fans....can't let the fans get out in front of the game!

The 1975 version of "Rollerball" showed the path - our society has skipped down it merrily, merrily, merrily,.....life is but a dream...!

About the only sports left that haven't devolved into blood-letting and mayhem are the shooting sports!  All sanctioned team and organized individual shooting sports are played with inanimate objects as target.  Hunting is an individual, unorganized, non-team sport that does not go after other people.   Perhaps a day will come when the childhood games will make the transition to adult level....Cowboys and Indians... Cops and Robbers - we are getting close on that one.  That day is not today.

There really is no such thing as a sanctioned, institutionalized, organized version of "The Running Man".  That could change as UFC evolves to allow hand held weapons....   We are heading to a time when we will have come full circle - back to Roman Coliseum gladiator games!  It's been a long time since the lions got to wantonly kill the man, instead of the man wantonly killing the lion!

[Ed W]

Wait...do you mean to say that Coulter is some kind of political commentator? All this time I thought she was a failed stand up comedian.

I learn something new here every day.

[davideinstein]

Anyway...

Fassler was a great spot again today. Belgium will be tough and waiting if we win is Argentina? Yikes.

[guido911]

Triumph getting into it.

On a positive note, I am actually watching some of these games. And I do hope the U.S. does well.

[TulsaRufnex]

USA showed some grit today, after going 2-0 down during the 30 minute overtime following scoreless regulation... so close to tying it up...

and now, for a final parting shot at the turdblossom Englishman who wrote the hack piece for the WSJ... 

[heironymouspasparagus]

Wait...do you mean to say that Coulter is some kind of political commentator? All this time I thought she was a failed stand up comedian.

I learn something new here every day.

Naw....just a failed human being!