Pop Culture Saturday: Soccer Is NOT a Kick in the Grass

Pop Culture Saturday is intended to be a more light-hearted look at American culture. There's much more going on in America than the darkness of Liberalism.

Have you watched any of the World Cup soccer tournament during these last several weeks? If your answer is No, then you're not alone. Most Americans found other things to do instead of sit in front of the television watching the United States soccer team get beat by Ghana. Before you Liberal wackos start blubbering "Oh, you watched the World Cup!!" - let me say I know the scores because I pay attention to the news. It's been impossible to flip through the channels without seeing something about international soccer.

Typical of the out-of-touch Liberal media! Every four years Americans get lectured that the World Cup is the best single-sport competition (as if using "single-sport" is supposed to differentiate it from the Olympics). More people in America watched the World Cup on Univision than on any of the English-language broadcast stations. These are not Americans watching soccer in America. It's also apparent the proponents of Celebrate Diversity want America to become athletically homogeneous with the rest of the world.

Members of the soccerati might take consolation in the fact that soccer is growing in the United States for two demographic tracks (those educated in a public skrewl should read that as different types of people): the immigrants and the upper middle class. Since the U.S. Olympic soccer victory a few years ago, the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) has attracted a hoard of interested youth - and given renewed meaning to Latte Liberal Soccer Moms (not an official group, but it oughtta be). It is how they keep in touch with Globalization.

In England, soccer quickly became the gentlemen's game played by thugs. Rugby was the thug's game played by gentlemen. Canadians devised hockey. Americans cultivated our own variant and called it football. It is apparent that we'd much rather play soccer than watch it on the television. Perhaps that's the best way to deal with the sport.