Is soccer un-American?

[Sun Aut Ex]

Well in World cup not all countries play but only the 32 selected by unknown criteria

I don't understand why crap country like Honduras plays and not country like China or India who are better at soccer

It's not unknown criteria, you just don't know it.

Each continental/regional confederation is assigned a number of qualification spots depending on the strength of said confederation. Europe has by far the most because they have the strongest teams. Then each confed has it's own qualification tournament. Honduras succeeded in theirs (CONCACAF), while China and India failed in theirs (AFC).

[Lunatic Goofballs]

Soccer is a bit off-base, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it Un-American.

[Sun Aut Ex]

Americans would never invent a sport where the better you get the less you score....

That's not even true. Chelsea won the final game of the PL season 8-0, and that clinched the trophy for them. How is that a bad thing?

[Maurepas]

Americans would never invent a sport where the better you get the less you score....

That's not even true. Chelsea won the final game of the PL season 8-0, and that clinched the trophy for them. How is that a bad thing?

It should've been 56-0, it sounds better, *nods*

[Sdaeriji]

Americans would never invent a sport where the better you get the less you score....

That's not even true. Chelsea won the final game of the PL season 8-0, and that clinched the trophy for them. How is that a bad thing?

He's confusing soccer with golf. Common mistake, given all the similarities between the sports.

[Desperate Measures]

Ohhhh!!! You're talking about Freedom Ball. No. That is a very American sport.

[SaintB]

Soccer is a bit off-base, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it Un-American.

Besides its a perfect illustration of what the war in Afghanistan is like.

[Maurepas]

Americans would never invent a sport where the better you get the less you score....

That's not even true. Chelsea won the final game of the PL season 8-0, and that clinched the trophy for them. How is that a bad thing?

He's confusing soccer with golf. Common mistake, given all the similarities between the sports.

They're both usually played on Grass?

Although we had a minor league down here that played in sand.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

Soccer is a bit off-base, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it Un-American.

Besides its a perfect illustration of what the war in Afghanistan is like.

Counter-intuitive, difficult to follow and annoyingly likely to end in a draw?

[SaintB]

Soccer is a bit off-base, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it Un-American.

Besides its a perfect illustration of what the war in Afghanistan is like.

Counter-intuitive, difficult to follow and annoyingly likely to end in a draw?

It also involves a whole lot of people running around and kicking each other.

[Maurepas]

Soccer is a bit off-base, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it Un-American.

Besides its a perfect illustration of what the war in Afghanistan is like.

Counter-intuitive, difficult to follow and annoyingly likely to end in a draw?

It also involves a whole lot of people running around and kicking each other.

Considering the time period, I think it was invented to simulate the Hundred Years War.

[North Wiedna]

Soccer is a bit off-base, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it Un-American.

Besides its a perfect illustration of what the war in Afghanistan is like.

Counter-intuitive, difficult to follow and annoyingly likely to end in a draw?

It also involves a whole lot of people running around and kicking each other.

I thought you kicked a ball in soccer? Now the point is to kick the other team? How did Italy lose to those pansies (no offense) in New Zealand then?

[Maurepas]

Soccer is a bit off-base, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it Un-American.

Besides its a perfect illustration of what the war in Afghanistan is like.

Counter-intuitive, difficult to follow and annoyingly likely to end in a draw?

It also involves a whole lot of people running around and kicking each other.

I thought you kicked a ball in soccer? Now the point is to kick the other team? How did Italy lose to those pansies (no offense) in New Zealand then?

Kiwi training?

[SaintB]

Soccer is a bit off-base, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it Un-American.

Besides its a perfect illustration of what the war in Afghanistan is like.

Counter-intuitive, difficult to follow and annoyingly likely to end in a draw?

It also involves a whole lot of people running around and kicking each other.

Considering the time period, I think it was invented to simulate the Hundred Years War.

yeah I know... you killed the joke

[Lackadaisical2]

Maure ball is better. *nods*

[Sdaeriji]

Soccer is a bit off-base, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it Un-American.

Besides its a perfect illustration of what the war in Afghanistan is like.

Counter-intuitive, difficult to follow and annoyingly likely to end in a draw?

It also involves a whole lot of people running around and kicking each other.

I thought you kicked a ball in soccer? Now the point is to kick the other team? How did Italy lose to those pansies (no offense) in New Zealand then?

They didn't. It was a tie. Each team kicked the opposing team equally. You see, points are scored based on where you kick the opposing player. Shins are worth one point, knees two, thighs three, anything above the waist four, and genital region is worth five points. While the All Whites did not keep pace with the Azurri in quantity, they did make it up with well-placed kicks.

[Dakini]

...the US has a team that made it to the world cup, doesn't it?

How is the sport un-American if they have a team that actually makes it to the World Cup?

It's not a genuine world championship unless only Good Honest Freedom-Loving American teams play. I mean really, how can you have teams from other countries in a world championship? It just doesn't make sense. Thus soccer is un-American.

Ah, is that why the World Series only has at most participants from two countries?

[EvilDarkMagicians]

Yes, because other countries particpant in it and are better than them which makes football un-American.

[Dark Side Messiahs]

In the eyes of some Americans (myself included), soccer sucks and Football is better. Ans long as people think that way, soccer is un-American

[The Cat-Tribe]

In The Week, soccer has been accused of being un-American. I think it is not un-American; it's as important as NASCAR (America) as it is to bowling (rest of world. I swear). It came along a bit too late -- what with football which doesn't even make sense why it's called that because only 1/10 of the time, maximum at a football game is spent kicking a football.
What do you think?

No. I read that blurd in The Week and literally laughed out loud.

IIRC, the argument was that, in "soccer," a lot effort is expended in low scoring games -- as opposed to American sports where effort "is rewarded" by scoring.

Apparently, Glenn Beck and other right-wing nutjobs also have been scorning the World Cup because .... (as far as I can tell because the rest of the world likes it, so it must be bad). See, e.g., link, link.

Someone should tell these nimrods that, for example, the AYSO has existed since 1964 and currently has more than 650,000 players. The MLS and WPS are alive and attracting more fans everyday. There are milions upon millions of U.S. soccer fans. Last weekend's United States vs. England match attracted 17.1 million American viewers, making it the most-watched first-round game in the history of American World Cup telecasts, and beating the average 16.4 million viewers racked up by the first six games of the NBA finals. Etc, etc, etc.

[Progressiae]

Nothing is Un-American. Give me a break.

[Justorica]

Anything that Stephan Colbert hates, we all must hate. Make sense?

Personally though, I don't have anything against soccer, I play it sometimes, but I don't really like it. Too simple of a sport.

And football is called football because America does not have to abide by any laws, not the laws of physics, not the Geneva Convention, and not any of those ten commandments the man with the beard made.

Now, I must go watch Blacksketball.

[Goober Kingdom]

Duh soccer's american. Football is the foreign one!

*= NOT American football, (ye old gridiron)

[EvilDarkMagicians]

In the eyes of some Americans (myself included), soccer sucks and Football is better. Ans long as people think that way, soccer is un-American

Just because Americans thinks soccer sucks doesn't make it un-American.

[Bergnovinaia]

In The Week, soccer has been accused of being un-American. I think it is not un-American; it's as important as NASCAR (America) as it is to bowling (rest of world. I swear). It came along a bit too late -- what with football which doesn't even make sense why it's called that because only 1/10 of the time, maximum at a football game is spent kicking a football.
What do you think?

No, it's not... most American prefer men bashing into each other and cars going around a circuit at 200 miles an hour (or that's how I view it since I live in the southwest). I've been accused of being un-American because I'm a socialist, liberal, who plays tennis. Just because some rednecks think soccer is un-American, rednecks who can't play soccer for their lives, doesn't mean it is.