Interesting soccer article

[DudyDawg]

At this point, I'm not even mad, i just want to know how you rationalize the soccer is ruining our youth

[Esmerelda Villalobos]

I do see the irony.

There are people that are better than other people.

There are winners and losers in life.

Just not always in soccer.

Some people are born losers. Either by choice or by birth.

- Jack Parkman -


I take it back, I think Im actually starting to enjoy the soccer bitching back and forth. It is summer and slow and Im just amazed at the responses. Highly entertaining.

[curmudgeon]

At this point, I'm not even mad, i just want to know how you rationalize the soccer is ruining our youth

Why does it matter? If I told you, you'd call me a miserable idiot. That's not a productive use of either of our time. Y'all have fun. I will stay away from soccer threads because that's how America works now. Some of you may even claim a victory over the evil that is curmudgeon's view on a game.

[Esmerelda Villalobos]

I imagine he hates it for a lot of reasons in that article. He thinks it is "*****fying" america and he probably hates that everyone gets a ribbon these days and that kids arent taught that life sucks, then you grow up.

Im just taking a stab based on his previous opinions.

[SignalToNoise]

Why does it matter? If I told you, you'd call me a miserable idiot. That's not a productive use of either of our time. Y'all have fun. I will stay away from soccer threads because that's how America works now. Some of you may even claim a victory over the evil that is curmudgeon's view on a game.

I would be willing to listen to your arguments more if you could link to a study that was at least correlating the two. Coming on a message board and saying that you think soccer is creating entitled millennials is unadulterated bullshit.

That's like saying "Well Orcs and Unicorns are responsible for the death of Leprechauns." You can say whatever the **** you want if you don't have any scientific evidence to back it up.

[AlmostPositive]

I'd like to thank the soccer fanboy who essentially accused those of us less enamored of the "beautiful game" of being ignorant Mississippi rednecks for not sharing his passion. That crystallizes things very nicely.

[curmudgeon]

I'd like to thank the soccer fanboy who essentially accused those of us less enamored of the "beautiful game" of being ignorant Mississippi rednecks for not sharing his passion. That crystallizes things very nicely.

That would be the same one that shit on his home state and lives on his parents' charity while he lives in a city that is more "cool" than Mississippi.

[BulldogDX55]

Hey curmudgeon, you know that everyone gets a trophy in youth football too, right?

[curmudgeon]

Hey curmudgeon, you know that everyone gets a trophy in youth football too, right?

Yep, its complete bullshit, too.

If I were dictator, youth sports teams would get three trophies: MVP, Most Improved, and Best Sportmanship.

[DudyDawg]

What happened to you saying you would stop posing?

[Esmerelda Villalobos]

That would be the same one that shit on his home state and lives on his parents' charity while he lives in a city that is more "cool" than Mississippi.

I thought he lived with his family in long island? I think yall are both off.

First, he did take a jab at MS for not "getting" it. When you move off, esp to a place like NYC, it is easy to quickly see how ignorant and backwoods we grew up. It almost comes to the point of a general hate. It is true, that he will be around more culture and be able to enjoy more things. It is a great thing to move off.

However, you must be careful to not feel superior and completely change on how you were raised. I know because I went through it. The older he will get, he will realize that his bashing was pointless. Some is warrantied but not most.

We are all biased by our surroundings. People think we are dumb and ignorant. I travel all over the world and that couldnt be farther from the truth. Go to the midwest or boston and tell me about racism.

Esplanade, it is cool that you are moving off. I did it and Id encourage but please dont turn into that asshole that moves to austin, la or brooklyn and has to shit on MS every chance you get. Youll find out, sooner than later, that those ignorants you grew up with are actually some of the best people youll ever know. Sure, myself or you may think their beliefs are backwards or dumb but it is their right to think Sarah Palin is awesome.

[curmudgeon]

What happened to you saying you would stop posing?

I said I would stop posting about soccer. I was posed a question about youth football.

[BrunswickDawg]

Hey curmudgeon, you know that everyone gets a trophy in youth football too, right?

And have for a long time. I started playing team sports in 1977 - and got a trophy every year in every sport I played until high school - when I started getting letters (which is in reality a trophy). My grandmother had a trunk full of sports participation trophies and certificates from my dad and uncle going back to their youth sports days in the 1950s. This idea that "the youth of today" is some pansy-ass waste of entitled elites because of soccer was said about us in Gen-X (cause we were in the first soccer wave in the 70s & 80s). Stupid then, stupid now.

[Tbonewannabe]

Again, if you really think I had my Ghanaese flag raised and went in despair when they lost, you are an idiot. I don't have this national idolatry that some of you have. The U.S. is shameful in a lot of ways. I am not proud of what this country is doing on a lot of things more serious than a game. I just don't care for soccer and would like to see it lose popularity. I think it is hurting our nation and creating narcissistic millenials who demand entitlements because they weren't taught to fail as children the way they should be.

In fairness, it has boiled over to other sports as well, but soccer started it.

Tishomingo MS probably still doesn't have a soccer field today but I remember getting a trophy for participating in little league baseball 26 years ago. There is a fine line between making a child an entitled prick from giving him a trophy that made him happy and making him a douchebag because he won some little league games and no one else received a trophy.

[DudyDawg]

And have for a long time. I started playing team sports in 1977 - and got a trophy every year in every sport I played until high school - when I started getting letters (which is in reality a trophy). My grandmother had a trunk full of sports participation trophies and certificates from my dad and uncle going back to their youth sports days in the 1950s. This idea that "the youth of today" is some pansy-ass waste of entitled elites because of soccer was said about us in Gen-X (cause we were in the first soccer wave in the 70s & 80s). Stupid then, stupid now.

Why are you bringing facts and such into this. That means nothing to him

[curmudgeon]

and my hate for soccer has nothing to do with trophies.

[Martianlander]

I would be willing to listen to your arguments more if you could link to a study that was at least correlating the two. Coming on a message board and saying that you think soccer is creating entitled millennials is unadulterated bullshit.

That's like saying "Well Orcs and Unicorns are responsible for the death of Leprechauns." You can say whatever the **** you want if you don't have any scientific evidence to back it up.

Please don't start on the Unicorn debate or we never will end this thread.

[TheRef]

Please don't start on the Unicorn debate or we never will end this thread.

UNICORN MASTER RACE!!!!!!1111!!1!1!!!11111!!111

[DudyDawg]

Debate? What debate. They're real. I owned one named Jesse

[Martianlander]

See here we go!