joy_division
06-24-2006, 11:41 AM
I found this in last week's Observer, loved it and just had to share itPioneer press, Minnesota
If the goverment really is serious about identifying illegal immegrants, 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 ratings of this month's world Cup. agents should be dispatched to any area where the ratings reflect an unnaturally high level of interest. that likely signals a pocket of illegals. no one who is actually from here cares about the most over-hyped, mind-numbingly boring event in the whole world.
Thirty years after soccer was supposed 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 astounding. The networks still think Americans aren't interested in soccer because we don't 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 industrious people. we use our hands. We catch footballs. we throw baseballs. We hit golf balls by fripping a piece of equipment. It is unnatural for us to put our hands behind our backs and try to 'pass' a soccer ball to a team-mate by bouncing it off 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 doesn't go goofy for soccer. we're also the only remaining superpower. Don't you see a connection there?
I'd rather have a colonoscopy than watch a minute of it. Soccer's the rest of the world's problem. let's not even fake it any more.
this guyhas a reall problem! He says "The arrogance is astounding" then goes on to say "we're right, and the rest of the world is wrong...Yes, america may be the only country that doesn't go goofy for soccer. we're also the only remaining superpower. Don't you see a connection there?" :stick:
"we catch Footballs" they are called footballs for a REASON. Why don't you start calling them handovals
as for the World cup being the "most over-hyped, mind-numbingly boring event in the whole world." maybe you should take a look at the superbowl. a ninety minute game that turns into a three hour circus.
i think the real reason this guy doesn't like footie, is that there is no real action. No steriod pumped up players, no hockey players beating each other to death, just 90 minutes of action.
What a saddo :p
If the goverment really is serious about identifying illegal immegrants, 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 ratings of this month's world Cup. agents should be dispatched to any area where the ratings reflect an unnaturally high level of interest. that likely signals a pocket of illegals. no one who is actually from here cares about the most over-hyped, mind-numbingly boring event in the whole world.
Thirty years after soccer was supposed 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 astounding. The networks still think Americans aren't interested in soccer because we don't 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 industrious people. we use our hands. We catch footballs. we throw baseballs. We hit golf balls by fripping a piece of equipment. It is unnatural for us to put our hands behind our backs and try to 'pass' a soccer ball to a team-mate by bouncing it off 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 doesn't go goofy for soccer. we're also the only remaining superpower. Don't you see a connection there?
I'd rather have a colonoscopy than watch a minute of it. Soccer's the rest of the world's problem. let's not even fake it any more.
this guyhas a reall problem! He says "The arrogance is astounding" then goes on to say "we're right, and the rest of the world is wrong...Yes, america may be the only country that doesn't go goofy for soccer. we're also the only remaining superpower. Don't you see a connection there?" :stick:
"we catch Footballs" they are called footballs for a REASON. Why don't you start calling them handovals
as for the World cup being the "most over-hyped, mind-numbingly boring event in the whole world." maybe you should take a look at the superbowl. a ninety minute game that turns into a three hour circus.
i think the real reason this guy doesn't like footie, is that there is no real action. No steriod pumped up players, no hockey players beating each other to death, just 90 minutes of action.
What a saddo :p