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The U.S. Media is a Disgrace (pg. 2)
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| raveed |
if the sport aint exclusive to america then it ain't a sport. Just like how kilometers and celcius are terms strictly used in fairy tails in the west.
Ignorant idiots, just cant accept not being the best at something. |
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| Trance Nutter |
| quote: | Originally posted by JM
if anything, hockey is a boring ass sport. at least in "soccer" you can see the white ball getting kicked around, and you just can't miss a goal being scored. in hockey, ..um... i can't really keep track of the puck.
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i went to the fights one night and a game of hockey broke out |
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| loconet |
| lol what a sad excuse for journalists. Unbelievable how they throw more dirt at the image of their own country. |
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| jåcë |
"Mostly soccer is just guys in shorts running around aimlessly, a metaphor for the meaninglessness of life"
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| K.I.K.E. |
Ignorance is very insolent, and some philosophical words won't make those morons more intelligent.
"If you don't know anything about something, do yourself a favor and shut up". |
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| paranoik0 |
I can't believe they are passing this as a serious "story". It's like they asked a 10 year old redneck kid to list his reasons of why "soccer" sucks, then rewrote it with big words.
Seriously. "soccer sucks, it's for donkeys" turns into:
"Actually, the donkey would have a significant advantage over humans in soccer. It has four legs rather than two. The donkey has no hands or opposable thumbs, nor any need of them in order to play soccer. And smashing its head into a soccer ball probably would not cause any diminution of equine IQ. Soccer, then, would appear to be a game better suited to dim-witted quadrupeds than to human beings."
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| montana |
| quote: | Originally posted by paranoik0
I can't believe they are passing this as a serious "story". It's like they asked a 10 year old redneck kid to list his reasons of why "soccer" sucks, then rewrote it with big words.
Seriously. "soccer sucks, it's for donkeys" turns into:
"Actually, the donkey would have a significant advantage over humans in soccer. It has four legs rather than two. The donkey has no hands or opposable thumbs, nor any need of them in order to play soccer. And smashing its head into a soccer ball probably would not cause any diminution of equine IQ. Soccer, then, would appear to be a game better suited to dim-witted quadrupeds than to human beings."
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| emc^2 |
Don't let an opinion of two retarded morons convince you otherwise...
Besides, take a look all the way at the bottom of the article... what do you see??
| quote: | | "Arguably the most influential opinion journal at the White House" - The New York Times |
OH, that explains it!
Here's something interesting:
Yesterday, I'm in G-d forsaken, redneck, "as american as it gets" territory of South NJ, USA. I just get off from work (by lying my ass off to leave earlier) and make it to OT - UKR vs SWI televised in local Applebees (like a national pub chain).
They have a game on the telly but out of 60 or so patrons, looks like I'm the only one watching. The volume is not even on... I couldn't even scream after my team won. So I resorted to almost accidental "Yeah!" and then had to look around to make sure no one was staring.
Well, that's America for you.
Sucks...
oh, and the idiot who wrote the article is clueless and should go back to doing what he's good at - writing bible class material, while planning his next sex trip to Thailand to screw little boys and suck off trannies. |
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| chesco |
You just have to look at football's world wide popularity to know how good a sport is, compare this with sports such as american football, swamp wrestling or hog washing and you'll notice that very few of these american sports are cared for much outside america.
As with everything else, if america can't be best at it, they try to bring it down. Football will always be the worlds number one sport, and that's a fact. |
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| chesco |
Actually,r eading through this is quite embarrasing. If this is the standard of journalism in the USA then it really is worrying. It reads as tho written for an kindergarted audience.
| quote: | Another reason why soccer will never enthrall Americans is that the game is contrary to nature. What is it that is unique to the physical makeup of human beings that sets us apart from the animal world? Two things: Our large brains and our grasping hands with opposable thumbs. Our big brain is why we're called homo sapiens, thinking man. And our ability to use our hands to grasp and manipulate objects is why one of our early ancestors was designated homo habilis, handy man. Human beings are thinking toolmakers. We're able to imagine the arrowhead in the stone and use our hands to carve it out of the rock. These two uniquely human traits have allowed us to become the dominant species on the planet.
Yet soccer flies in the face of nature. In almost all other sports, the head is protected against injury. Players wear helmets and try to avoid contact with sticks, bats, balls, elbows, fists, roadways, goalposts and other things that might inflict injury on that big brain that gives humans the ability to plan ahead, calculate, strategize, coordinate eye and hand movements, anticipate the consequence of actions — in other words, to play the game.
But soccer players use their heads, deliberately, to contact the ball. This is contrary to all human instinct, which is to keep the head out of the way of danger. Duck, you idiot! Protecting the head against injury is deeply rooted in our nature. It's an evolutionary survival response. Sacrifice a limb if you must, give up an arm or leg, but protect your head at all costs. Yet in soccer the player is encouraged, no, expected to hit the ball with his head. This is as stupid an action as a human being can undertake.
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Wow they use their heads, shock in horror. What about boxers, rugby players, hockey players, the list goes on. this is clearly just an attack on football with little substance to back it up. |
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| emc^2 |
Like I said... read below to understand the logic behind the rant:
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| verndogs |
| i honestly can never understand why people don't follow this sport based on the fact that you can't use your hands :conf: |
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