Soccer is like watching grass grow...with a bunch of soccer players in the way.

[Atman]

Colbert tonight. :rofl:

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[Morning Dew]

1. He's wrong, of course.

It's not nearly that exciting.

[Logical]

3. LOL

[FLAprogressive]

4. +1

[awoke_in_2003]

16. +1000. nt

[Renew Deal]

2. There was a guy that got banned from DU for posting anti-soccer messages

It was one of the funniest things I ever saw on DU. He only posted about soccer and only in the Sports forum. He kept posting anti-soccer messages. He eventually called soccer fans "third world savages" and got banned. :rofl:

[Irritable Liberal]

5. Some of us are developed world 'savages'

NT

[Doctor Hurt]

13. I regret that I did not see that

you don't have any archived links do you?

[Zywiec]

24. Searching "third world savages" and soccer

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=215&topic_id=90581&mesg_id=90581

[Renew Deal]

29. That was him.

17 posts over a few weeks and every one of them was bashing soccer. Bizarre, but hilarious!

[richmwill]

6. Soccer- Much more fun to play than to watch. (n/t)

[thereismore]

7. If it's the republican sham persona speaking, I get it. If Colbert really believes it,

well, nobody is perfect.

[rabs]

8. Wonder whether Col-burr realized ...

... that after he took a cheap shot at world football, that his guest, H. Kissinger, is a huge football fanatic?

I don't know whether the Kiss and Col-burr talked about football, because when Kissinger appeared, I switched the channel.

Here is Henry K. in an LA Times column in 1986

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World Cup According to Character
The Los Angeles Times
Sunday, June 29, 1986

by: Henry Kissinger



I have been an avid soccer fan ever since my youth in Fuerth, a soccer-mad city of southern Germany, which for some inexplicable reason won three championships in a three-year period. My father despaired of a son who preferred to stand for two hours (there were very few seats) watching a soccer game rather than sit in the comfort at the opera or be protected from the elements in a museum.

Soccer evokes extraordinary passions, especially during the quadrennial World Cup competition ending today in Mexico City. It has been estimated that the Brazilian gross national product suffers a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars for every day Brazil plays, as rabid fans sit before television sets or radios. Statistics in other soccer citadels must be comparable.

Soccer lends itself to a competition of national teams because it requires an extraordinary combination of individual skill, teamwork and strategic sense. Since there are 11 players on each side engaged in continuous action, every game produces tactical necessities to be solved by improvisation on the playing field.

http://www.ashbrook.org/articles/kissinger.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. I'm sure he does - Kissingerr was in the news recently for soccer

Henry Kissinger recommended for Fifa anti-corruption squad

And yes, the irony of that appointment was not lost on people:

Henry Kissinger: The man who thinks he's God

To his detractors, the notion of Henry Kissinger being summoned by Sepp Blatter to help cleanse the rotten house of Fifa is akin to making the Empress Messalina a United Nations special envoy for chastity.

World football's governing body, by all accounts, needs a large dose of two things: humility and openness. But can those qualities be fostered, one may ask, by one of the mightiest egos in the history of diplomacy, whose preferred modus operandi was complete, and not infrequently deceitful, secrecy?

But just possibly the detractors will be proved wrong. There are two Henry Kissingers. There is the Kissinger the world knows best: the historian and geostrategist, the master of realpolitik for whom the end always justifies the means. Then there is Kissinger, the lifelong devotee of Fussball – the boy who stood on the terraces watching the team from his Bavarian hometown of Fürth win cups and championships in the Twenties and Thirties

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/henry-kissinger-the-man-who-thinks-hes-god-2292846.html

[Logical]

27. I find it so boring unless my kids are playing! n-t

[WatsonT]

30. Liking/disliking soccer isn't a political thing

the sport is boring in my opinion. You can have a different opinion, that's fine.

There are few things that matter less than other peoples choose in entertainment.

[Union Scribe]

9. Well granted nothing can be as exciting as watching two plays of US football

and then a six minute commercial break. Or, shit, like 90 minutes worth of commercials during a hockey game. Or the last two minutes of a basketball game that by some quantum magic becomes a half hour. Then there's baseball...where so little activity occurs that men who look like Man vs. Food extras are its greatest stars. Meh.

[RandySF]

10. He must be watching Major League Soccer.

[Kaleva]

11. I never understood the passion for soccer. It's as boring as baseball.

[Populist_Prole]

12. and as boring as every other spectator sport.

Huge waste of time, all of them.

[Doctor Hurt]

14. and yet, here you are posting.

about that huge waste of time.

[Forkboy]

18. You can't act superior by staying silent!

;)

[Fumesucker]

21. I manage it quite a bit on sports threads..

Superiority through stealth.

[Doctor Hurt]

15. x

x

[hfojvt]

17. I think it would be a better game if

they took two players off of each team and let people use their hands. There would then be that much more passing and scoring. At least the game I watched, the field seemed too crowded and it ended with a 2-1 overtime score. Many times the crowd stood up as the ball neared the goal, and sat down disappointed.

[Forkboy]

19. LOL...funny line. Soccer has it's moments though.

I'm not a huge fan, but I can watch it and not mind. I've seen some excellent matches.

It's no hockey, mind you. :)

[malaise]

22. American exceptionalism

:D

[dsc]

23. My favorite was this

Twilight is like soccer. A bunch of good looking guys run around for a couple of hours, no one scores, and if you don't like it you are told you just don't get it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. I enjoy soccer

So there.

So did my dad.

But of course the ignorant gringo does not.

[Upton]

26. I like soccer..

particularly Arsenal, the EPL and Champions League. And there is no tournament quite like the World Cup..

[Obamanaut]

28. That's baseball. nt

[City Lights]

31. !

:thumbsup:

Baseball cures my insomnia.

[struggle4progress]

32. I don't follow it but it seems to me to require much more agility and grace than many sports

that are more popular in the US

I've sometimes seen some stunning moves in amateur soccer matches: guy runs in the direction of kicked aerial ball, for example, and then does a backflip to kick the descending ball back whence it came