As my husband reminded me of a quote from Family Guy this morning- "isn't there an O in country?"
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| giggity. |
Not in this case honey. Not in this case.
For full disclosure I will share two things here:
1) I'm a soccer fan. I love it. I have for years. I liked it before you did. I liked it before it was cool. I liked it before it became big. When it comes to soccer, I am the biggest fucking hipster you will ever know.
2) I was an Ann Coulter fan many moons ago. No, not because I agreed with her on everything. I appreciated that there was at least one (at the time) young, attractive woman representing conservatives. While the wiki entry under "republicans" basically showed the two old guys from the Muppets, it was refreshing to see someone who didn't meet every GOP stereotype get some air time.
Alas... we come to this. Ann's "column" (in quotes because it's like calling the crap I took this morning a column) about soccer.
I am 99% positive Ann is taking the piss on this one. I am not sure I should call it that though as taking the piss is grounded in humor, which I personally find absent in this dirge. It's like making fun of someone for believing in gravity.
Then again, I don't want to believe she's so ignorant that what she says could possibly be based in what she really thinks. Surely it must just be to gain a few clicks and a few mentions in the media by throwing herself in front of the soccer bandwagon. Cause for Annie, success is spelled "ignorant contrarian".
Still, for the sake of allowing me to call her a fuckface publicly, I'm going to assume she was serious. I'm going to assume the words she arranged into a pile of shit are simply because she's an ignorant, gaping arsehole.
Because really that's not so much of a stretch, right?
Let's take some of the greatest hits from her vomitous ode:
Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer.
Is she some kind of psycho hose beast? Has she not heard of Pele? Beckham? Ronaldo? Why do we know these names? Oh right... BECAUSE OF INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT. Surely she must know this. She can't be serious right? I know it's difficult to see past the end of her nose (literally) but come on. You can do better than this Annie. I know it.
Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties — and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.
Two points here- does she know that the reason we call American football, uh, football, is because of its relation to um, soccer? There is a sport called rugby played in many other places and by some Americans. It's like American football without pads or incessant commercial breaks. Those 300-pound bruisers come at you and you don't have some helmet to protect your fried blonde mane. Wanna play Annie?
Anywho, rugby's full name is "rugby football". Soccer was referred to as "association football" to separate it from rugby. Association became abbreviated to "soc" and then morphed into "soccer". American football has its name thanks to soccer. Put that in your bowl of dust and eat it, Annie.
Secondly, the last time I checked American football players use their feet about the same amount of time soccer players use their hands. So maybe we can come up with another name for American football that's more accurate... how about "roided, bloated, criminal, concussed ball"?
The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport.
While I find this point more akin to gladiator worship than sport, when was the last time someone was majorly injured in golf? Maybe Tiger's ex-wife kicked him in the balls especially hard, but does that count? Not to mention that in soccer referees and players being beaten and sometimes killed is unfortunately much more prevalent than the NFL. In American football they just beat their wives and girlfriends.
Yes, I suppose it would make sense that Coulter can only take interest in sport that requires murder and mayhem. She's the queen of bomb throwing. Okay, they're not bombs, more like flaming handfuls of cow dung.
But that's why soccer is so perfect for her. The amount of nonsensical bullshit is a glove fitted to her claw. I mean, um, hand.
In soccer, even the crowd gets injured.
But that's why soccer is so perfect for her. The amount of nonsensical bullshit is a glove fitted to her claw. I mean, um, hand.
In soccer, even the crowd gets injured.
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| Eric Cantona, aka god, kicking a spectator. |
Players sometimes try to bite each other!
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| Suarez biting Ivanovic. |
This next comment you're really going to love. Honestly, it's sublime.
It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.
Hmm... right. Okay. So, Ann... my sweet Annie. Are we using what African-Americans are interested in as some kind of barometer for the validity of an organized group trying to gain supporters/fans? Oh goodie. Well then, I guess that's your Republican party fucked.
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| http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/morning-jay-how-will-obama-do-african-americans_575484.html |
And her last point I'll highlight, which is definitely my absolute favorite of her fuckwittery...
If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.
Yes, you read that right. She basically just said "yo' mama" err, or "yo' great-grandfather" to a couple of generations of Americans.
I can appreciate her taking a swing at Teddy Kennedy. We probably have all wanted to at some point. But I find it hilarious that she is slamming soccer fandom for only being a product of heritage, when basically all the sports the US supposedly cares about are the exact. same. thing. When was the last time you heard your Portuguese friend talking about the Cowboys game? Or how about that lady from Ghana you met? Was she talking about Derek Jeter's retirement?
I can't say for certain whether my heritage has influenced my love for the sport. I'd like to brag and think I just looked outside my neighborhood to see if there was anything better out there and found soccer. Yes, I'd like to think it's just because I'm so awesome that I turned off the tv on Sunday afternoons when NFL ruled the airwaves and looked for something different.
But perhaps it is because my great-grandfathers from Italy, who died before I was ever born, have been guiding me. Yes they are shouting "FORZA AZZURRI" at me from beyond the grave. That's it Ann. It's only because my relatives who never had the opportunity to show me soccer at all, since it wasn't on tv, and wasn't on the radio, and wasn't even discussed in our news, influenced me so.
How did you get interested in the NFL Annie? Was it because your great-grandfather was a roided, concussed criminal? Is that why you watch? To reminisce about your heritage? I feel you.
It's just that my heritage is full of historically significant art, music, food, wine... and calcio (soccer/football).
You've got jock itch and busty cheerleaders.
Well done, Annie. Well done.
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