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Soccer Scolds
"Maria" @ "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?"Trumwill at Hit Coffee has a good post up today about the obnoxious 'soccer scolds' who keep trying to bully us stubborn, backwards Americans into embracing the global game, soccer. And how us stubborn, backwards Americans just refuse to play along, despite a massive public relations campaign that even pulls out the daisy cutter of propaganda ploys, the charge of racism' (lobbed at us by the sort of pwecious people who listen to NPR as if any of them are actually fans of any sport) because we don't want to hold hands and sing We are the World' while watching a sport that is beloved by our moral superiors, European socialists and Third Worlders.... The soccer scolds don't understand that American football is something that grew up organically, out of a specific culture, at a specific time and place. That doesn't make it either superior or inferior to soccer, it just makes it our game. Those hundred-year-old chants and ancient rivalries serve the same purpose as all other cultural traditions: they build valuable social capital. Or maybe the soccer scolds do understand. Maybe it's just one other aspect of the Kulturkampf attack on American exceptionalism. No wonder NPR has taken up the desperate cry that football must be replaced by soccer.... We're Americans. We play football. Our ultimate sports accolade is winning something called the Lombardi Trophy, not the World Cup. And to paraphrase the great Vince, come September in the United States of America, football isn't everything it's the only thing. Posted by: Mike 2010-06-22 |
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