Ann Coulter: Immigrant Soccer Fans Are Leading America Into Moral Decay

[Angry Floof]

Ugh. Don't even get me started on basketball, the second stupidest sport in the world.

 

[Petrel]

Sooooo, let's see,
Team effort is immoral.
(She seems to have imperfect grasp of basketball and baseball, but never mind.)
Failure or refusal to scapegoat a team member who makes a mistake is immoral.
Immigrants are immoral for two generations, minimum.
I gather the quintessential American sport would have a maximum of individual glory, blame and brain damage.
That would make boxing the logical choice.
Too bad it was imported by immigrants.

 

[braces_for_impact]

With this last article Ann can be seen being carried by a shark, that's waterskiing and jumping over another shark, that has just finished jumping yet another shark...ah hell, it's sharks all the way down.

 

[dismal]

Two thoughts:

1) She's trolling
2) It's working

 

[ksen]

Ann should get a job at the onion.

She doesn't already? huh

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[Jimmy Higgins]

DNFTT

 

[James Brown]

She must have a book coming out soon. She typically emerges to say something bizarrely absurd right before a new book of hers hits the shelves.

It would almost seem as if saying something bizarrely absurd is a kind of marketing strategy.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

Ann is just mad because there is no position on a soccer team called stick with Adam's apple, so she can't play.

 

[Bacillus anthracis]

Apparently Ann Coulter has never watched a soccer game in his life if he thinks that is is any different than any other team sport in terms of both necessary team effort and individual glory.

That's what I found the most curious. She's not the only one that rips soccer as a lesser sport but at least try to know something about the game before you start in on it.

I myself am not a big soccer fan but I'm digging the World Cup. It'll end badly for the American team but in the meantime USA! USA! USA! I just needed to write that because I know how much non-Americans love the sound of that chant.

Anyway, isn't it Coulter that's being un-American by criticizing other Americans who are competing against non-Americans (that's a lot of Americans)?

But the U.S. views the World Cup more like the Olympics than anything else. It's something we have fun watching every four years until our team loses and then we forget about it.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Apparently Ann Coulter has never watched a soccer game in his life if he thinks that is is any different than any other team sport in terms of both necessary team effort and individual glory.

That's what I found the most curious. She's not the only one that rips soccer as a lesser sport but at least try to know something about the game before you start in on it.

She is trying to create controversy, so of course her critique is ridiculous. She is a well paid troll.

 

[rousseau]

Anti-soccer sentiment throughout North America is one of the weirdest things I've seen. Seems to have more to do with national identity than anything about the sport. Soccer is not seen as inherently North American, but instead European, so many of us try to cheapen it to 'buff up' classically North American sports.

Can we all just agree that any professional league in the world in any sport involves incredibly skilled people performing impressive physical and mental displays, and that different people like different forms of sport, or no sport at all?

No? Yea that's what I figured.

 

[Angry Floof]

What do you expect? Sports are a reflection of tribalism. Not every player or fan is tribalistic, but in general, that's what sports are - competition of group identity. The more tribalist a person or culture, the stupider they are about sports.

 

[rousseau]

What do you expect? Sports are a reflection of tribalism. Not every player or fan is tribalistic, but in general, that's what sports are - competition of group identity. The more tribalist a person or culture, the stupider they are about sports.

Yea, that's exactly what I expect. It's still thoroughly dumb, though.

 

[Playball40]

She is wrong about soccer. It is a wonderful, beautiful sport. It is a combination of teamwork and individual brilliance.

Some goals are the result of a slow build up of team pressure over many minutes. You can feel it coming as the team probes the defense for the weakness that will allow the half yard of space need to get behind the defense.

Some goals are strikes out of the blue, a split second of brilliance from one or two individuals.

There are goals that people will remember and talk about their whole lives.

And yes, there aren't many goals in the professional game. But each one takes something extraordinary to produce, even if it is an unexplainable breakdown in the defense.

And these extraordinary moments come more frequently in soccer than in any other sport.

This is so true. Not to mention the endurance necessary to play soccer. All I know is the most exciting games I ever watch are my daughters playing U-12!

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What do you expect? Sports are a reflection of tribalism. Not every player or fan is tribalistic, but in general, that's what sports are - competition of group identity. The more tribalist a person or culture, the stupider they are about sports.

Or they could be just a game for fun.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Any growing interest in soccer Ann Coulter can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

 

[Angry Floof]

This is so true. Not to mention the endurance necessary to play soccer. All I know is the most exciting games I ever watch are my daughters playing U-12!

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What do you expect? Sports are a reflection of tribalism. Not every player or fan is tribalistic, but in general, that's what sports are - competition of group identity. The more tribalist a person or culture, the stupider they are about sports.

Or they could be just a game for fun.

Sure. As I said, not every player or fan is tribalistic. At least, I hope there are some intelligent people among the billions who follow and play sports. There's got to be some fun in it because otherwise it's just stupid.

 

[doubtingt]

Anti-soccer sentiment throughout North America is one of the weirdest things I've seen. Seems to have more to do with national identity than anything about the sport. Soccer is not seen as inherently North American, but instead European, so many of us try to cheapen it to 'buff up' classically North American sports.

Its part that the US did not invent soccer, but also that the US isn't that great at it. The US created and still "owns" football, basketball, and baseball. Like people do generally, we like the things we are good at. Most Europeans don't care about those sports because they aren't good at them. Many Asian and latin American countries care about baseball, because they are good at it. It isn't about the US but about most people in every country being nationalistic and caring about the sport that the sport their group is good at or identified with. In fact, it isn't just national but regional. More Americans care about Hockey now that the US is so strong in it, but still cities with good Hockey teams care about Hockey more than cities with no team or a crappy team. How much Chicagoans care about Hockey and "love the sport" is a direct function of how good the Blackhawks are or have been recently. It also applies to racial groups. I bet that basketball is the #1 sport of interest among American blacks, even though its 3rd or even lower among whites. Blacks dominate basketball more than other US sports, so blacks like basketball more, even if they themselves do not play.
Soccer will get bigger in the US, now that we seem to be competitive on a world stage, but the depth and longevity of that interest in the sport will depend upon whether we can maintain a seriously competitive team. That said, I think soccer's popularity will stay well behind other sports because Americans just don't like the idea of a tie. We like our dramas with clear cut winners and losers. That's why our blockbuster movies tend to be childish morality tales with unambiguous good guys and bad guys, and the good guys always win. Most sports fans hate foreign or indie films with moral ambiguity and uncertain or unhappy endings. That said, I love such films but also love to watch the NFL.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Any growing interest in soccer Ann Coulter can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

This should be getting no more attention than a *meh* and walking on. It is such an obvious trolling job on her part. I don't even know why people are talking about it. She is irrelevant.

 

[dystopian]

Anti-soccer sentiment throughout North America is one of the weirdest things I've seen. Seems to have more to do with national identity than anything about the sport. Soccer is not seen as inherently North American, but instead European, so many of us try to cheapen it to 'buff up' classically North American sports.

This reminds me of that most classic of football/soccer memes:

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[dystopian]

Its part that the US did not invent soccer, but also that the US isn't that great at it. The US created and still "owns" football, basketball, and baseball.

Well, maybe if we informed Americans that the US did not, in fact, create any of those sports that'd change. Basketball was created by a Canadian, American Football is just a variation of Rugby which was invented by the British, and (WORST OF ALL!) Baseball was actually invented by the *French*, passed through to the British, and then finally adopted in the early US.

Like people do generally, we like the things we are good at.

I don't think this is right at all. When we look at football (soccer); it's almost universally popular everywhere on the planet; even in countries that rarely if ever win an international match.