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If the governement really is serious about identifying illegal immigrants, it has a unique opportunity to record their whereabouts. All the Department of Homeland Security has to do is monitor the city-by-city television rating's of this month's World Cup. Agents should be dispatched to any area where the rating reflect an unnaturally high level of interest. That likely signals a concetrated pocket of illegals. No one who is actually from here cares about the most over-hyped, mind-numbingly boring event in the world.
Thirty years after soccer was meant to be the next big thing here, ESPN and ABC will again attempt to "educate" as well as entertain American viewers during the World Cup. The arrogance is astouding. The networks still think Americans aren't interested in soccer because we don't understand it. In fact, just the opposite is true. We don't like soccer because we do understand it. And it's awful.
It's time to quit apologising and tell the truth. When it comes to soccer, we're right, and the rest of the world is wrong. If they want to dance in the streets of Cameroon or Belgium over this stuff, fine. But the sport does not suit American taste, and we should stop feeling guilty about it.
Americans are an industrious people. We use our hands. We catch footballs. We throw baseballs. We hit golf balls by gripping a piece of equipment. It is unnatural for us to put our hands behind our backs and try to "pass" a soccer ball with our heads. We aren't circus seals, and no one's going to toss us a fish if we do it right.
Yes, America may be the only country that doesnt go goofy for soccer. We're also the only remainin super power. Don't you see a connection there?
I'd rather a colonoscopy than watch a minute of it. Soccer's the rest of the world's problem. Let's not even fake it anymore.
Thirty years after soccer was meant to be the next big thing here, ESPN and ABC will again attempt to "educate" as well as entertain American viewers during the World Cup. The arrogance is astouding. The networks still think Americans aren't interested in soccer because we don't understand it. In fact, just the opposite is true. We don't like soccer because we do understand it. And it's awful.
It's time to quit apologising and tell the truth. When it comes to soccer, we're right, and the rest of the world is wrong. If they want to dance in the streets of Cameroon or Belgium over this stuff, fine. But the sport does not suit American taste, and we should stop feeling guilty about it.
Americans are an industrious people. We use our hands. We catch footballs. We throw baseballs. We hit golf balls by gripping a piece of equipment. It is unnatural for us to put our hands behind our backs and try to "pass" a soccer ball with our heads. We aren't circus seals, and no one's going to toss us a fish if we do it right.
Yes, America may be the only country that doesnt go goofy for soccer. We're also the only remainin super power. Don't you see a connection there?
I'd rather a colonoscopy than watch a minute of it. Soccer's the rest of the world's problem. Let's not even fake it anymore.
It all makes sense now ;)
Edited, Jun 18th 2006 at 10:53am EDT by RedPhoenixxxxxx