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Soccer May Be Gay, But
At Least It’s Not Canadian

Posted on | June 14, 2010 | 54 Comments

I don’t think Allahpundit is Canadian, but he does have a suspiciously extensive knowledge of Broadway show tunes hockey.

IYKWIMAITYD.

The other day, I put up a mocking headline:

World Cup Overkill: Associated Press
Writes 1,068 Words About 1-1 Tie

And proceeded to mock soccer, generally, which prompted commenter “gg” (whose IP address is in India) to respond:

“Wake up from your ‘me me me USA me me USA i can’t see ya!’ mentality. Not as if the rest of the world gives a damn about a stereotype Stupid American like you anyway.”

Yeah, pal? Well, obviously you give enough of a damn to argue with me, don’t ya?

So anyway, the Nation and NPR today decided to inform us that conservatives hate soccer because we’re racist, citing Glenn Beck and G. Gordon Liddy as examples. In point of fact, I played youth-league soccer when I was 12. I covered prep soccer as a sports writer in Georgia. My future son-in-law plays soccer and, believe it or not, I like soccer.

Shall I sing “Wilkommen” from Cabaret now? Or how about “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story?

But affluent elite American soccer fandom of the type celebrated by the Nation/NPR piece has roughly the same relationship to merely liking soccer that knowing show-tune lyrics has to sodomy  — which is to say, none at all.

When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes who were drinking away the afternoon in preparation for going to that evening’s Arsenal game/riot. Take away their Cockney accents, and these working-class guys might as well have been a couple of Bubbas gearing up for the Alabama-Auburn game.

They were, in a phrase, British rednecks.

And this is who soccer fans are, everywhere in the world except among the college-educated American elite.

In Rio or Rome, the soccer fan is a Regular José or a Regular Giuseppe. It is a low-brow, blue-collar sport, beloved by rowdy hooligans the way ghetto kids in America love the NBA or hillibillies in east Tennessee love NASCAR.

Out there, in the rest of the world crammed full of foreigners, amongst limeys and wogs, krauts and dagos and chinks — and especially beaners — futbol es muy macho.

By contrast, if an American is that kind of Regular Joe, he doesn’t watch soccer. He watches the NFL or bass fishing tournaments or Ultimate Fighting. In an American context, avid soccer fandom is almost exclusively located among two groups of people (a) foreigners — God bless ’em — and (b) pretentious yuppie snobs.

Which is to say, conservatives don’t hate soccer because we hate brown people. We hate soccer because we hate liberals.

American liberals love soccer not merely because it allows them to engage in displays of their imagined superiority — “Look at me! I’m a sophisticated cosmopolitan!” — but also because it’s usually the only sport they’ve ever actually played.

“Mom Wouldn’t Let Me Play Football” is a convenient shorthand that I’ve used to describe a category of person typified by, inter alia, David Brooks.

Another convenient shorthand: “Never Won a Fistfight.”

They’re pussies, in other words, and they grew up in those vanilla cul-de-sac suburban cocoon communities with “good schools” (hint, hint) where their neurotic mommies and wimpy dads never let them have a moment of leisure that wasn’t safe and supervised and reinforcing to their self-esteem.

Nerf World.

So they grew up sheltered and bookish and prone to whining about their allergies, part of a social group where this kind of childhood seemed perfectly normal, i.e., their fellow wienies with whom they associated in “gifted” classes and band and, above all, youth soccer league.

Soccer is a great sport for sheltered wienie kids, so long as they are in a league where all the other kids are sheltered wienies, too — as is the case in the vanilla cul-de-sac suburban cocoon community where these kids grow up. Why? Because youth soccer requires no athletic ability.

Neither size nor speed, neither strength nor agility — and certainly not eye-hand coordination —  is necessary to participate in the kind of soccer played by elementary-school kids in suburban U.S.A. All the really athletic kids are playing football, baseball or basketball.

Suburban youth soccer is a game for neurasthenic dorks.

Go watch 7- or 8-year-olds play youth-league soccer somewhere in an upscale American suburb and what do you see? Twenty dorky white kids running around willy-nilly while the two kids with anything approaching genuine athletic aptitude score all the goals.

In America, if you’re too clumsy for baseball, too short for basketball and too weak for football, soccer is your game.

Like I said, I spent one spring/summer playing in a YMCA soccer league when I was 12. The explanation is this: Robbie Brown played linebacker on my youth football team, the Sweetwater Valley Red Raiders, for which Robbie’s dad was an assistant coach. Robbie’s dad got the idea that soccer would be good conditioning for football — lots more running than baseball — and so Robbie was going to be on this team, and the word went around to the other parents of the Red Raiders: Hey, if your kid isn’t playing baseball this year, put ’em on this soccer team.

So there were about four of five of us football kids who played on this team in the Marietta YMCA league, and our coach was a German guy named Hans or Karl or something like that.

We sucked.

The coach’s kid was the only member of the team who had ever played soccer before. Me and my handful of football buddies began the season clueless and ended it only slightly less so, while the rest of the kids on the team were of the “Mom Wouldn’t Let Me Play Football” variety.

I can’t remember if we lost every game, but we sure didn’t win more than one or two. We sucked bad.

We did run a lot that summer, though. We ran and ran and ran some more. Hans or Karl was a firm believer in running and so, after soccer ended in July, those of us who played football were in fine condition when the Red Raiders started practice in August. That having been the real purpose of our soccer season, it was a success.

Playing YMCA soccer against those Marietta kids could never be mistaken for the kind of futbol es muy macho experience that produces World Cup champions. While I am unfamiliar with the U.S. team roster, I would hazard a blind guess that a majority of them are immigrants or the sons of immigrants, and not the products of suburban Everybody-Gets-A-Trophy youth-league soccer.

So that’s my soccer story. I’ve got one good friend, the son of Scottish immigrants, who loves soccer in a Regular Joe kind of way. And my daughter’s fiancé — the Romeo of the Pampas, the Latin Lothario — is all ¡Va La Argentina! about the World Cup.

That kind of sincere fandom is one thing. But the affectations of pretentious liberals . . . well, let’s let Ace of Spades explain:

I think I know the reason, and this is the political reason — the real political reason — the right rejects soccer. . . .
Because many conservatives suspect that progressives elevate soccer above other sports for culture war-type reasons, we dig in our heels and say silly things about soccer just to repudiate the left’s own attempt to fight the culture war via a silly pastime.

Read the whole thing.

Category: Foreigners, Liberals

Comments

54 Responses to “Soccer May Be Gay, But
At Least It’s Not Canadian”

  1. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 4:48 am

    Q. Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style?

    A. So they both can watch the hockey game.

  2. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 12:48 am

    Q. Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style?

    A. So they both can watch the hockey game.

  3. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 4:56 am

    I know some of you geographically southern raised individuals don’t get it, having only seen ice in a drink, but hockey is a real sport.

    Give the Canadians their due. They gave us the gift of hockey, back bacon, rye whiskey.

    There must be something else…

    oh yeah, this too.

  4. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 12:56 am

    I know some of you geographically southern raised individuals don’t get it, having only seen ice in a drink, but hockey is a real sport.

    Give the Canadians their due. They gave us the gift of hockey, back bacon, rye whiskey.

    There must be something else…

    oh yeah, this too.

  5. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 5:09 am

    In fact, people are saying Canadians aren’t gay anymore…

  6. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 1:09 am

    In fact, people are saying Canadians aren’t gay anymore…

  7. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 5:16 am

    gg, there is no chance of cricket ever catching on here. One of the gifts of 1776 is severing ourselves from England before it took hold.

  8. Ugly American
    June 15th, 2010 @ 5:16 am

    “I love to see your US of A-centric heads explode when Drudge Report headlines an USA upset win over, say, Australia in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.”

    Actually, gg, it thrills us USA-centric types to no end to see a US team beat a bunch of durn foreigners in any sport that the foreigners obsess over but which the US doesn’t care about. The fact that we even win in sports we don’t care about just shows how much more awesome we are than everyone else!! It’s like winning with both hands tied behind our back. It’s even more fun than when we win in something we are actually good at.

    (Actually, I wish American parents had a little more of the respect for academics over sports as is found in India. Sports is entertaining, but it doesn’t do much for our economic competitiveness.)

  9. Joe
    June 15th, 2010 @ 1:16 am

    gg, there is no chance of cricket ever catching on here. One of the gifts of 1776 is severing ourselves from England before it took hold.

  10. Ugly American
    June 15th, 2010 @ 1:16 am

    “I love to see your US of A-centric heads explode when Drudge Report headlines an USA upset win over, say, Australia in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.”

    Actually, gg, it thrills us USA-centric types to no end to see a US team beat a bunch of durn foreigners in any sport that the foreigners obsess over but which the US doesn’t care about. The fact that we even win in sports we don’t care about just shows how much more awesome we are than everyone else!! It’s like winning with both hands tied behind our back. It’s even more fun than when we win in something we are actually good at.

    (Actually, I wish American parents had a little more of the respect for academics over sports as is found in India. Sports is entertaining, but it doesn’t do much for our economic competitiveness.)

  11. Dell
    June 15th, 2010 @ 5:34 am

    I’m pleased to announce that anything to do with crickets must also include Buddy Holly. It’s the law in America.

  12. Dell
    June 15th, 2010 @ 1:34 am

    I’m pleased to announce that anything to do with crickets must also include Buddy Holly. It’s the law in America.

  13. Mark J. Goluskin
    June 15th, 2010 @ 6:20 am

    I like soccer AND ice hockey. Thrilled to see the Chicago Black Hawks win Lord Stanley’s Cup! But without a few standout American players, soccer will NEVER catch on in the United States. I have heard the arguement that immigrants will make soccer the sport here for 35 years. It still has not happened. And the World Cup is rather complicated for the average American sports fan to follow. Hell, I try and do not quite get how each team makes it. And one more thing. A tie is not a win. A game CAN NOT END IN A TIE. That is a real drawback for soccer.

  14. Mark J. Goluskin
    June 15th, 2010 @ 2:20 am

    I like soccer AND ice hockey. Thrilled to see the Chicago Black Hawks win Lord Stanley’s Cup! But without a few standout American players, soccer will NEVER catch on in the United States. I have heard the arguement that immigrants will make soccer the sport here for 35 years. It still has not happened. And the World Cup is rather complicated for the average American sports fan to follow. Hell, I try and do not quite get how each team makes it. And one more thing. A tie is not a win. A game CAN NOT END IN A TIE. That is a real drawback for soccer.

  15. Erich Madden
    June 15th, 2010 @ 6:35 am

    gg- Do you really think Obama’s support is going to HELP either soccer or cricket catch on here? Every political candidate he has supported for election for the past year has LOST. Maybe you need to try to get Sarah Palin interested in cricket? She seems to have a much better success rate with candidates she supports.

  16. Erich Madden
    June 15th, 2010 @ 2:35 am

    gg- Do you really think Obama’s support is going to HELP either soccer or cricket catch on here? Every political candidate he has supported for election for the past year has LOST. Maybe you need to try to get Sarah Palin interested in cricket? She seems to have a much better success rate with candidates she supports.

  17. Thomas L. Knapp
    June 15th, 2010 @ 6:55 am

    Nobody actually watches bass fishing tournaments.

    The only reason they’re broadcast is so that we can sneak out to drink beer and see other wimmin without worrying about getting caught.

    “Yeah, honey, don’t count on me being anywhere but in front of the TV from 2-4 — there’s a bass fishing tournament on.” If she honestly swallows that line in the first place, it follows that she also believes you’re dedicated enough to it that she can safely go shopping and leave your alcohol habit and wandering eye unsupervised for a couple of hours.

    Works every time, even better than golf.

  18. Thomas L. Knapp
    June 15th, 2010 @ 2:55 am

    Nobody actually watches bass fishing tournaments.

    The only reason they’re broadcast is so that we can sneak out to drink beer and see other wimmin without worrying about getting caught.

    “Yeah, honey, don’t count on me being anywhere but in front of the TV from 2-4 — there’s a bass fishing tournament on.” If she honestly swallows that line in the first place, it follows that she also believes you’re dedicated enough to it that she can safely go shopping and leave your alcohol habit and wandering eye unsupervised for a couple of hours.

    Works every time, even better than golf.

  19. Urkel
    June 15th, 2010 @ 7:13 am

    “….they grew up sheltered and bookish and prone to whining about their allergies, part of a social group where this kind of childhood seemed perfectly normal, i.e., their fellow wienies with whom they associated in “gifted” classes and band….”

    Stacey, as a non-wuss who was in gifted classes, and briefly in the band, I must point out that you have, typically, confused being nerdy and/or uncoordinated with being a mommy-coddled-wuss (though I admit there is some overlap) I know how jocks like to take credit for achievements that are 99% genetics, and assume that if someone is uncoordinated and sucks at sports, or maybe has asthma or allergies, its their fault, but, nope, still 99% genetics. Wussery, on the other hand, is 100% by choice. I know plenty of athletic wusses (you can usually tell them because their parents argue every call with the ref), and some pretty non-wussy types who actually managed to make it into a gifted class. (You might be interested to know that you can’t molly-coddle a child into gifted class, they have to be smart, which takes actual work.)

    I may be clumsy, uncoordinated and unathletic, but I never played soccer either, and while it may be true that I am 0 for 100 in fistfights, that’s only because I’ve never had the opportunity to duke it out with a newspaper writer! Now that’s a truly wussy profession! I know I’d be at least 1 for 101.

  20. Urkel
    June 15th, 2010 @ 3:13 am

    “….they grew up sheltered and bookish and prone to whining about their allergies, part of a social group where this kind of childhood seemed perfectly normal, i.e., their fellow wienies with whom they associated in “gifted” classes and band….”

    Stacey, as a non-wuss who was in gifted classes, and briefly in the band, I must point out that you have, typically, confused being nerdy and/or uncoordinated with being a mommy-coddled-wuss (though I admit there is some overlap) I know how jocks like to take credit for achievements that are 99% genetics, and assume that if someone is uncoordinated and sucks at sports, or maybe has asthma or allergies, its their fault, but, nope, still 99% genetics. Wussery, on the other hand, is 100% by choice. I know plenty of athletic wusses (you can usually tell them because their parents argue every call with the ref), and some pretty non-wussy types who actually managed to make it into a gifted class. (You might be interested to know that you can’t molly-coddle a child into gifted class, they have to be smart, which takes actual work.)

    I may be clumsy, uncoordinated and unathletic, but I never played soccer either, and while it may be true that I am 0 for 100 in fistfights, that’s only because I’ve never had the opportunity to duke it out with a newspaper writer! Now that’s a truly wussy profession! I know I’d be at least 1 for 101.

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  22. John W.
    June 15th, 2010 @ 3:10 pm

    “… Which is to say, conservatives don’t hate soccer because we hate brown people. We hate soccer because we hate liberals.”

    Yeah, that pretty much covers it.

    “Soccer is a great sport for sheltered wienie kids, so long as they are in a league where all the other kids are sheltered wienies, too…”

    True. The way we played it, soccer was a full contact sport. The wienie kids were gone after the first couple of elbows, kicks, backhands, etc. – all incidental contact, mind you. 8^)

  23. John W.
    June 15th, 2010 @ 11:10 am

    “… Which is to say, conservatives don’t hate soccer because we hate brown people. We hate soccer because we hate liberals.”

    Yeah, that pretty much covers it.

    “Soccer is a great sport for sheltered wienie kids, so long as they are in a league where all the other kids are sheltered wienies, too…”

    True. The way we played it, soccer was a full contact sport. The wienie kids were gone after the first couple of elbows, kicks, backhands, etc. – all incidental contact, mind you. 8^)

  24. KingShamus
    June 15th, 2010 @ 3:34 pm

    Back when I was just a young pup we had a simple rule: No blood, no foul. Soccer was no exception.

    It led to some hurt feelings and some nasty fights, but whatever. All part of growing up.

  25. KingShamus
    June 15th, 2010 @ 11:34 am

    Back when I was just a young pup we had a simple rule: No blood, no foul. Soccer was no exception.

    It led to some hurt feelings and some nasty fights, but whatever. All part of growing up.

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  27. wombat-socho
    June 15th, 2010 @ 6:36 pm

    gg, soccer has been just about to catch on in the United States since 1905. We’re not waiting for it, frankly; there’s a baseball game on.

  28. wombat-socho
    June 15th, 2010 @ 2:36 pm

    gg, soccer has been just about to catch on in the United States since 1905. We’re not waiting for it, frankly; there’s a baseball game on.

  29. Mike
    June 15th, 2010 @ 8:03 pm

    Mark J. Goluskin
    June 15th, 2010 @ 2:20 am

    A game CAN NOT END IN A TIE.

    I’ve seen this across a couple of websites’ comments, but you can also tie in American football. It’s just seems like a rare occurrence.

  30. Mike
    June 15th, 2010 @ 4:03 pm

    Mark J. Goluskin
    June 15th, 2010 @ 2:20 am

    A game CAN NOT END IN A TIE.

    I’ve seen this across a couple of websites’ comments, but you can also tie in American football. It’s just seems like a rare occurrence.

  31. Occam's Tool
    June 15th, 2010 @ 8:07 pm

    gg, haven’t you figured out yet that we Americans DON’T WANT to play with you? We left the cesspool that is the rest of the world to get on with our lives the way we want to. We LIKE the fact that nobody plays with us; only 15% of our people have Passports, and there are lines waiting to get in here, but nobody lining up to leave.

    We think the rest of the world sucks; if you have figured that out and joined us, great. Otherwise, who needs ya?

    Not personal, gg. I’m sure you’re a nice guy.

  32. Occam's Tool
    June 15th, 2010 @ 4:07 pm

    gg, haven’t you figured out yet that we Americans DON’T WANT to play with you? We left the cesspool that is the rest of the world to get on with our lives the way we want to. We LIKE the fact that nobody plays with us; only 15% of our people have Passports, and there are lines waiting to get in here, but nobody lining up to leave.

    We think the rest of the world sucks; if you have figured that out and joined us, great. Otherwise, who needs ya?

    Not personal, gg. I’m sure you’re a nice guy.

  33. molonlabe28
    June 16th, 2010 @ 3:08 am

    This is 100% on the money, Stacy.

    Soccer is a sport of the 3rd world (i.e. Muslim) ratholes and pampered yuppies (you know, the ones who think that “parent” is a verb) of the world.

    I have no interest in games in which Ghana, Somalia, Sierra Leone and Mali field teams.

    Nor do I like NBA basketball. It is a tribal ritual and is dominated by pot-smoking thugs who hang out in the Champagne Room of local strip joints.

    I am one of the east Tennessee hillbillies (we don’t regard the term as pejorative) who loves NASCAR racing that you mentioned in your article.

    And I like boxing – the real kind and not the cage fighting by parolees.

    The only thing you have wrong is that liking Broadway plays is necessarily a Beta male thing.

    Even though my Jeep stays covered in mud and my boots stay covered with cow patties (from the farm), I will be a good husband and go to plays with my wife.

  34. molonlabe28
    June 15th, 2010 @ 11:08 pm

    This is 100% on the money, Stacy.

    Soccer is a sport of the 3rd world (i.e. Muslim) ratholes and pampered yuppies (you know, the ones who think that “parent” is a verb) of the world.

    I have no interest in games in which Ghana, Somalia, Sierra Leone and Mali field teams.

    Nor do I like NBA basketball. It is a tribal ritual and is dominated by pot-smoking thugs who hang out in the Champagne Room of local strip joints.

    I am one of the east Tennessee hillbillies (we don’t regard the term as pejorative) who loves NASCAR racing that you mentioned in your article.

    And I like boxing – the real kind and not the cage fighting by parolees.

    The only thing you have wrong is that liking Broadway plays is necessarily a Beta male thing.

    Even though my Jeep stays covered in mud and my boots stay covered with cow patties (from the farm), I will be a good husband and go to plays with my wife.

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  37. Elmer Stoup
    June 16th, 2010 @ 4:35 am

    Mr. Zirin’s post is ridiculous. That said, this conservative old white guy loves soccer, even though I never touched a soccer ball until age 19. Even after our battalion team of highly athletic young officers, including me (who was in great shape but not much of an athlete) was soundly defeated by our German sister battalion composed mostly of pot-bellied, beer-drinking officers who actually knew how to play.

    Coached my daughter’s recreation team 3rd through 8th grade. Believe soccer is good for children’s self-confidence and development of individual athletic and team skills. A well-coached team of girls with mediocre innate athletic skills can play well against, even defeat, girls with much better athletic skills, but no soccer experience.

    Your experience as a one-year player corroborates what I’ve just written. You sucked as a team because you had weak individual ball-handling skills and team skills.

  38. Elmer Stoup
    June 16th, 2010 @ 12:35 am

    Mr. Zirin’s post is ridiculous. That said, this conservative old white guy loves soccer, even though I never touched a soccer ball until age 19. Even after our battalion team of highly athletic young officers, including me (who was in great shape but not much of an athlete) was soundly defeated by our German sister battalion composed mostly of pot-bellied, beer-drinking officers who actually knew how to play.

    Coached my daughter’s recreation team 3rd through 8th grade. Believe soccer is good for children’s self-confidence and development of individual athletic and team skills. A well-coached team of girls with mediocre innate athletic skills can play well against, even defeat, girls with much better athletic skills, but no soccer experience.

    Your experience as a one-year player corroborates what I’ve just written. You sucked as a team because you had weak individual ball-handling skills and team skills.

  39. USRanger
    June 16th, 2010 @ 5:16 am

    Robert, your style is 5 stars buddy. I also enjoyed your view of the bigger picture of what is going on.

    May you write for many many more years

  40. USRanger
    June 16th, 2010 @ 1:16 am

    Robert, your style is 5 stars buddy. I also enjoyed your view of the bigger picture of what is going on.

    May you write for many many more years

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  42. theonewhoknows
    June 16th, 2010 @ 10:08 pm

    Soccer is a fun game to play, but it’s kinda bland to watch. The game is too simple and low-scoring, and thus, can easily be rigged (you think the italy-brazil-france domination of the world cup is a coincidence?!). In a baseball/football/basketball game, the scores magnify the talent and effort of the teams and the players play to win whereas in soccer you can dominate and still lose 1-nil and teams “play to draw” Can you imagine Kobe and the Lakers “playing to draw”? LoL! Soccer is alright, but it needs a smaller field, a few less players and more rules to make it a more interesting and more fair sport where underdogs have a legitimate shot, there are no “draws” and the team that plays the best wins.

  43. theonewhoknows
    June 16th, 2010 @ 6:08 pm

    Soccer is a fun game to play, but it’s kinda bland to watch. The game is too simple and low-scoring, and thus, can easily be rigged (you think the italy-brazil-france domination of the world cup is a coincidence?!). In a baseball/football/basketball game, the scores magnify the talent and effort of the teams and the players play to win whereas in soccer you can dominate and still lose 1-nil and teams “play to draw” Can you imagine Kobe and the Lakers “playing to draw”? LoL! Soccer is alright, but it needs a smaller field, a few less players and more rules to make it a more interesting and more fair sport where underdogs have a legitimate shot, there are no “draws” and the team that plays the best wins.

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  45. TestCricketRock
    June 19th, 2010 @ 7:01 am

    gg, Lara as Jordan?? What was the writer smoking??

    BTW one question to all the american “handball” lovers. How come you love such a deeply socialist sport? What the fuck is up with salary caps? And collective bargaining agreements? A draft where the worst performing team has the first pick on the best college players? The NFL is Obamacare for men in gay-ass spandex and protective pads. Are you all commies in disguise? The only sport a true free-marketer can love is football and that too the variety in Europe (which that cheese-eating surrender monkey Platini is trying to fuck up as hard as he can).

    Test Cricket Rocks. One-Day sucks.T20 is OK.

  46. TestCricketRock
    June 19th, 2010 @ 3:01 am

    gg, Lara as Jordan?? What was the writer smoking??

    BTW one question to all the american “handball” lovers. How come you love such a deeply socialist sport? What the fuck is up with salary caps? And collective bargaining agreements? A draft where the worst performing team has the first pick on the best college players? The NFL is Obamacare for men in gay-ass spandex and protective pads. Are you all commies in disguise? The only sport a true free-marketer can love is football and that too the variety in Europe (which that cheese-eating surrender monkey Platini is trying to fuck up as hard as he can).

    Test Cricket Rocks. One-Day sucks.T20 is OK.

  47. Dan
    June 21st, 2010 @ 1:10 am

    KKK, racist, gay Nazi.

  48. Dan
    June 20th, 2010 @ 9:10 pm

    KKK, racist, gay Nazi.

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    June 21st, 2010 @ 9:35 pm

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