I don’t care what “soccer” is slang for. Perhaps you didn’t read my entire post. You probably didn’t read my first one either. They were jokes. Thank you, soccer and futbol fans of the world.

May I remind you that every American football play would result in 15-20 “red cards”? That’s why you wear pads. That’s why after 5-10 years in the NFL, a lot of 35 year old guys hobble for the rest of their lives on canes or roll around in wheelchairs.

I’m not denying the validity of soccer as a sport. I rather enjoy it, actually. I’m just teasing you soccer nerds a bit, all in good fun. You all took it way too seriously. Lighten up.

Kevin from Ohio in V on August 10, 2007 at 3:36 PM

Heh, botched joke.

- The Cat

May I remind you that every American football play would result in 15-20 “red cards”? That’s why you wear pads. That’s why after 5-10 years in the NFL, a lot of 35 year old guys hobble for the rest of their lives on canes or roll around in wheelchairs.

I’m not denying the validity of soccer as a sport. I rather enjoy it, actually. I’m just teasing you soccer nerds a bit, all in good fun. You all took it way too seriously. Lighten up.

For whatever reason, whenever I hear Americans talk about football (soccer) being wimpier than, say, football in the American capacity, I ask who wears more pads and takes a break every ten seconds? Then the complaints of Americans just seems like the buzzing of the uncoordinated and out of shape…
And great show to the Iraqi football side. They showed a great deal of heart during the tournament, and I hope they they make an appearance next year at the World Cup.

The single cause of the “slippage” in America’s will to fight is caused by the media. That are Al Qaeda’s “Fifth Column” in this war and they have been working overtime in trying to force America to surrender.

In WWI and WWII, the media was kept on a very short leash, and given the overt attempts by the media to sabotage the war effort, if it were up to me, I’d ban ALL of them from the green zone and ONLY allow reporters in country if and only if they are embedded with the troops.

The fact that the media deliberately rely upon Al Qaeda and Ba’athist “stringers” to supply “news,” coupled with their liberal, anti-military attitudes and behavior is reason enough to declare the whole nest of them persona-non-grata and make them leave.

My 2 cents.

Glad to see my jab at Euroball was taken as it should have been. I’ll concede to futbol, as long as we will hereafter refer to a lib as having put his or her fut in his or her mouth, eschewing use of the word “foot” which has developed an extremely positive connotation when used to refer the great American sport of “football.”

Soccer is a slang word as in Association Football. People call it football because that’s what it’s called. There’s also Gaelic football which is involves the hands and is more physical than Association football. It’s not as if people are going to get confused and the Baltimore Ravens will wind up playing Manchester United by accident.

No, but I did blur one face for security reasons.

Bryan on August 10, 2007 at 10:15 AM

It’s AllahP, right? No, I kid. What they did was very important, though.

Genuine unity, genuinely heartwarming. It’s always good to see some of the Iraqi good guys getting together with americans, it shows that Iraq does have plenty of good guys. My heart goes out to them.

Aylios on August 10, 2007 at 12:36 PM

It’s too bad the lame drive-by media either downplayed all of this, or chose to focus on the negative….not that that is a surprise.

The media, while hanging in the Green Zone, should be asking the Iraqi politicians why a soccer team can show some unity for their country yet the politicians cannot.

Let’s just call it fütball and leave it at that.

Harpoon on August 10, 2007 at 10:49 AM

Why, is “Queerball” already taken?

Kevin from Ohio in V on August 10, 2007 at 10:20 AM

Let’s just call it fütball and leave it at that.

Kevin from Ohio in V on August 10, 2007 at 10:20 AM

When you kickbox, then we’ll talk.

- The Cat

Separate from this, but not totally… How long until American soccer nerds start trying to insist that their sport be called “football”? How long until the term ‘soccer’ is thrown into the politically incorrect lexicon? I demand the right to raise my children in a non-soccer-friendly country, and this great nation is the last bastion of sanity on this planet!

I have a dream… that one day all the little American soccer nerds… will walk hand in hand with some real athletes… the Little Leaguers… where together they can participate in a real sport… one in which you can use your hands… one in which the entire team wears the same uniform… one that committed capitalists actually care about.

Thank you, and God bless America!

craig on August 10, 2007 at 10:14 AM

No, but I did blur one face for security reasons.

Congratulations to the Team and the Country.

- The Cat

P.S. Yes, I know everywhere else calls soccer football anyway.