To all soccer snobs....

Dude ... I love the World Cup and like soccer overall, but damn right there are such things as soccer snobs. They're right up there with baseball pseudo-intellectuals as the most annoying sports fans on the planet.

 

The problem I have with soccer snobs is that their intentions never seem to be pure. They tell us that we should like soccer because of the beauty of the sport but in reality I fell their intentions are more neferious.

In reality those selling socccer want us to like it because the soccer world badly wants our money.

If the sport is so great it should sell itself.

 

Are twoback and crass asking you for money?

 

What's a huddle?

[/peytonmanning]

 

I've had Lugnut's "it" in my face so long, I'm now like boots, and I'm tiring of it. Time for me to move on.

 

You guys are missing the point, which has been, all along, that one guy from Sweden had a rat tail.

Seriously. A rat tail. In 2006. On television. In front of God and everybody.

Scout's honor.

 

Here's a theory:

I like soccer personally, but I'm just leaving this for you to discuss

Maybe, we (by we, I mean Americans in generally) like to think of our heros as some kind of Superman? If you watch the movies or comic books, the heroes all have buldging biceps and veins sticking out of their necks. We think of some kind of powerful, allmighty Goliath.

That look described your average football, basketball and baseball player -- your 6-4, 200 pound mass of muscle and strength. But not you're average soccer player, who's 5-8, quick, fast, athletic as hell, but whos defense strategies seems more like run away than confront, and who'll never give you the feeling that an average man on the street shouldn't mess with in a fight.

I know I'm going mythical here, and perhaps, deep inside our psyche, we feel this way?

 

if you could've worked in the rat tail, I'd be right with you.

 

I could think of 10 arguable arguments for the existence of soccer snobs before I would have come up with that one, Boom.

 

We used to call them fag tags. Wonder if anybody but Ozzie Guillen could get away with using that term these days.

 

So if I suggest there is much to like about soccer, what the heck am I exactly getting out of it?

 

Scorn and ridicule, mostly.













I'm just kidding. ;D