They hate it because everyone (rich or poor) plays it, it’s not exclusive to the wealthy or a certain group. And perhaps its a group effort and working for each other to succeed, they would call that hand out/socialism. Get up and strap your boot laces, they say, even though you have no foundation to own a boot. There opinions does not count, because Palin and the tea folks speak for them and their Idea around the world is limited to only them. Look around the world, and you’d find that the phoney Conservatives in the U.S stand alone in a lot off issues. They work for Cooperate America, not the people of America.

Fun to play, boring as all hell to watch. For instance, the American side had a major accomplishment in winning their first round group for the first time in 80 years. Exciting, right? Not so much when you consider that we did so by winning One, count them, ONE game out of 3. And we won that group over our biggest group rival who also won ONE game. Which was nice because we won on the total number of goals, despite having 2 goals taken away by refs who really know how to make sure everything is nice and fair.

It’s sort of like watching the Tortoise v Hare race. It makes for a fine story, but as athletic spectacles go….Zzzzzzzzz.

Oh, and of course, I’m thoroughly devoted to the Corporations Of The World, and expensive, complicated sports like basketball that only the mega rich get to play. /

wow kam you are just as retarded as soccer. admit it, you only liked soccer for the capri suns and orange slices at halftime. it was probably the only meal of the day for you right? poor poor little kam…

@Pablo
Your point is dry, if you calculate well, you’d see that the U.S team deserves to win. Its a point based system, 3 for maximum, 1 for draw and 0 for loosing. I’m sure you are aware of the league system around the world, if not its a basic education for you.
Your quote regarding the U.S team qualifying out of their group is a blatant falsehood, the U.s team qualified for the Quarter final in the 2002 world cup, with my awareness of the game, you can’t get to that stage without winning.
Regarding your points about the comparison of football(soccer) and basket ball. If you look around the world and the best players, they are from every corner of the world. It’s not a sport dominated by one race, the best ever player of the games are Pele (Black) and Maradona (Latino) and the home of football is in Europe.

It’s more a game for the working class and lower middle class and some rich folks. In England it’s a working class game (Black or white). In South Africa, its a Black sport (Rugby is played by whites)

The world cup is the most watched sports event in the Globe. The Olympic is a combination of games, whereby the world cup is just one sport that follows the same pattern from China to Mozambique and which brings positive and negative emotions out of people when watching their National side.

You sir/ma, are only sad because you were not introduced to the game earlier on, and prefer a ball game that goes through the hoop. The people who run the NBA, can only wish to have the kind of attention and influence FIFA has. Even though the ball goes through the hoop hundred of times, I find it boring and not engaging. Time-out is a no, no for me, let them play and let’s see the survival of the fittest.

no kam, you play until one team wins and then you can shove your point system up your stupid piehole. oh, and you can shove your idea that there is “nobility in being poor” up there with it. get a job loser.

Kam Fet said:
@Pablo
Your point is dry, if you calculate well, you’d see that the U.S team deserves to win. Its a point based system, 3 for maximum, 1 for draw and 0 for loosing. I’m sure you are aware of the league system around the world, if not its a basic education for you.

Yes. Right. Indeed. Zzzzzz.

Your quote regarding the U.S team qualifying out of their group is a blatant falsehood, the U.s team qualified for the Quarter final in the 2002 world cup, with my awareness of the game, you can’t get to that stage without winning.

I didn’t say qualifying, I said they won their group for the first time in 80 years. The 2002 side did reach the quarterfinals, but they did not win the round (which is just what England did this year.) Tell you what, if you teach me all about soccer, I’ll teach you how to read, deal?

You sir/ma, are only sad because you were not introduced to the game earlier on, and prefer a ball game that goes through the hoop.

I’m not sad, despite having learned to play soccer as a kid and spending a few years in league play. As I said, fun to play, boring to watch. But if there are any onther facts about me you’d like to create out of the thin air between your ears, by all means, feel free. I’m sure I’ll be more entertained by that than I would 120 minutes of game time being decided by penalty kicks. Or having a tie, for that matter.

This entire commentary is absolutely ridiculous. What’s great about sports is that it gives us an escape from divisive politics. Soccer will never be as popular in the States as it is elsewhere. That’s just the way it is. Turning sports into politics is just silly.

@Pablo
Its not my fault I can’t read as you say, if I had to read comments like this from you.

”But if there are any onther facts about me you’d like to ”

It’s not wise to go into typo or comments accuracy, because we write out of emotion. But I just had to show ya, that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

you gotta ask why are soccer fans so butthurt and care why someone doesnt like their game?

@C0nstant
Who cares who doesn’t like soccer, what we resent is Suckers like you yapping away falsehood behind keyboards. Why I ask? because they don’t get it, so instead of addressing their own ignorance and learn, you open your mouth and chat all the way like a Yenta that needs shutting up.

As a conservative, I hate soccer because they fake their “injuries”. Man up and play. Don’t act like you just got shot by a sniper.

what have i said thats false?
you are retarded
points system is stupid and for losers
you think being poor automatically makes you noble for being a failure at life
go blow it out your vuvuzela

The riots are actually pretty exciting. And virtually anyone can be a hooligan, so it is really accessible.

This is the most bogus article of all time. I know plenty of conservatives who are passionate soccer fans. And if the liberals ever took control of the sport, they would probably force the best players to wear cumbersome outfits and heavy weights to slow them down, and ensure a more equitable playing field. Or maybe they would take goals away from rich countries and redistribute them to poor countries. Or, best of all, maybe they could institute a tax scheme in which players need to send the government a check every time they kick the ball. But you would get a tax credit if you had a same-sex spouse.

@C0nstant
No one said being poor is noble. heck I’d rather have some than none. And remind me if I’m wrong, isn’t this the word of a noble man. By the way, did Jesus Christ not favour the poor. Anyway, the point was rich and poor play and engage in the sport like any other. Rich as in European and as poor as the Africans or South America, they are all fully engaged. It’s not dominated by a particular ethnicity nor special ability.

The only reason Americans have not caught on is because not everyone knows the intricacies of the sport; most people just want to see the scoring – which does not always come in flurries like a Chelsea 7-0 dismount of Stoke City in the English Premier League.
The newer generations are catching on though…slowly. They are learning that the first touch of a punt is as essential as (and easily more difficult than) a catcher catching a pitch. They’re discovering the pass out of the back when your defense is under pressure is like a running back getting you off your own end line in American football.
It’s not ALWAYS as exciting as other sports, but there are a LOT of things to be appreciated and recognized. People try to say they can easily master it and that’s why it’s so popular…when I can guarantee most of them cannot juggle the ball for 10 hits. America is learning, and it’s still a new sport here. It will take a while, but it’s evolving.

As far as the article goes…it’s like saying Republicans love them some football and Democrats love basketball. It’s biased…but I agree with what Kam said and it being available to everyone. Everywhere else in the world there are stories of poor kids getting their hands on a ball, playing in the city, and getting a chance…this happens in America sometimes but moreso for basketball. Only story I know similar to this in America is Clint Dempsey or Santino Quaranta. Still…I’ve never seen a sport get the spotlight to be hated on as much as soccer – so thank you America – must mean something.

BASKETBALL ORIGINATED IN CANADA.

And I’m shouting because you just don’t listen!

Soccer is for pussies..pussies have no arms, and you can’t use your arms in soccer..simple. It’s only popular here in America with the single moms that want their Ritalin taking emasculated boys to “play” because nobody gets hurt, and everyone gets a trophy. There’s no “beauty” in it..unless girls are playing. North America has it’s own version of soccer..played with sticks and blades..it’s called hockey.

red shoes: You are only 1/2 right. Yes, Naismith was Canadian. However the game (2 peach baskets, 2 teams…) was originated in…. Springfield, Mass. Then perfected as the game we know today.

This article is a farce, as is Glenn Beck!

When I was about 15 I lived across the street from a block square park. We played pickup games in that park but when I was 15 everyone wanted to play soccer. Why? A family moved into one of the houses bordering the park. There were two teenage brothers who played soccer but the draw was the teenage sister who had a GREAT body and wore the tightest clothes and shortest shorts we had ever seen. When it became evident that she already had a boyfriend, that was the end of our interest in soccer. I have no idea what the politics of the other kids was but it didn’t matter. I don’t like soccer because I never turned it on and felt compelled to watch any more that a minute or two. Why is there so much concern about Americans liking soccer? Its just a game, does political correctness have to touch every single aspect of life?

jimw1016 said:
This article is a farce, as is Glenn Beck!

Look! I made a comment on the internet!

Mark Flinner said:
red shoes: You are only 1/2 right. Yes, Naismith was Canadian.

Or, a Canadian ex-pat who came to America to change the world. :) If you prefer.

Happy 5th, everybody!

This is the most stupid column ever. I’m very conservative and post on Hotair all the time. We had a lot of soccer posts on Hotair, and I love soccer.

why not

Pablo said:
Or, a Canadian ex-pat who came to America to change the world. :) If you prefer.

Ehh. Canadians are highly protective of the inventions of both Naismith and Bell, but it’s not false to say that the game of basketball “originated” in the U.S.; if you apply the same logic that concludes Basketball was a Canadian invention, you’d also have to say that the telephone is a Scottish one.

Soccer is a game for third word wusses. Even if I were not more conservative than liberal I would not waste my time watching such a ridiculous sport.

Current headline…”The New Yorker Examines Why Conservatives Hate Soccer”.

Next week headline…”The New Yorker Examines Why Liberals Hate America”.

November headline…”The New Yorker Examines Why America hates Democrats”.

Having “lived” many years overseas – I wonder – what took us so long to “appreciate” this sport!
..
And why not: (NOW) – !
…”The New Yorker Examines Why Conservatives Hate Soccer”.

…”The New Yorker Examines Why Liberals Hate America”.

…”The New Yorker Examines Why America hates Democrats”.

Why WAIT? (and I’m NOT a “spor· ts fan nor an “athletic supporter!)

They hate soccer because they hate America when a Democrat is in office and he is destroying America through policies that no Republican can actually explain b/c they know very little if anything about it other than what Fox News told them. BUT DAMMIT, THEY ARE AGAINST IT FULL FORCE!

Then when a Republican is in office, anyone who remotely is against anything American is a TRAITOR! TERRIBLE PERSON! LOSER! WIBERAL!

I have come to the conclusion that everyone who posts on Mediaite’s forums regularly is wack.