I'm not familiar to this lady, so... is that bona fide satire or just a case of Poe's law?

I think it's the second, as satire always haves a counterpoint which is the actual point of the satire, and that article just looks... serious.

In which case I recommend that lady to stop a ball with her head after a professional football player kicks it from half the field away, without a helmet. And then she can explain us how "wimpy" does that feel.

I forget when I stopped reading, but it was about the time I realized this woman is either a brilliant troll or the next Glenn Beck. Her bullet points became progressively ridiculous and mockable and I just lost interest because sadly, she will be championed for this opinion by a vocal minority of the country and amplified through biased networks.

There's not much I can say. Anyone with half a brain and an ego that's not too big to accept another well known sport that is undeniably bigger than anything here in the states is on the same level as American Football should gloss over this article.

I love American Football. Love it. I call it Football and I don't care that the rest of the world mocks me for it and refers to it as hand egg. I don't like Soccer, or Futbol. My reasons are pretty good actually. I like the drama and suspense occurring between every play in baseball and every down in football. I like the strategies coming out of the dugouts and sidelines, there is a whole 'nother level going on besides what the players are doing on the field. I am not a fan of constant in motion sports like Soccer, Basketball and Tennis and the like. But THAT'S JUST ME. That is what I like and dislike and I laid out my reasons for it.

It has nothing to do with where the sport was born or my ethnicity. Personally, I think Miss Coulter would be surprised to find out the types of people who watch soccer, but she probably didn't bother to look because it might disagree with her theories and arguments about the direction our country is taking. In fact, it seems she views soccer as a sissy sport. While I wouldn't dare compare it to contact football, her aggressive stance on the issue seems to suggest our society should be writhing with bare chested vikings beating their chests with spiked maces for fun, or perhaps we should just bring back the roman gladiators. I love the violence of contact football but dear lord don't paint our society as barbarians please.....

I've always thought that American, of all people, would appreciate the egalitarian spirit of football: it requires no special equipment (bats, gloves, helmets...) and no special playfield. It only takes, literally, one football.

This is why a guy can be born in a slump in a third world country and become a world famous idol just by being one of the best.

I'm not sure why the American sport is called football though. The ball is only occasionally kicked, and is pretty much tossed around....using the hands.

It's, "Ann Coulter's Unbelievable RANT Against [INSERT SUBJECT]." She's a ranting machine! What ever you do it will not stop!

Thank you, Krixtal, next time I get the question why the rest of the world hates America so much, I'll point them to this article and explain this is why. America is the only nation on Planet Earth where ignorance is socially accepted together with batshit insanity, sputtered by the likes of this woman.

For clarity, please refer to it as soccer. Football to every American reading this means our violent sport.

I wasn't sure for a bit which one you meant. Thanks.


ed: Football is a great name for the European version for obvious reasons.

I'm not sure why the American sport is called football though. The ball is only occasionally kicked, and is pretty much tossed around....using the hands.

But handball is already taken, so what's to do ??

I'm going to stick with the fact that the football is nearly a foot long.

She is a professional troll from the American neo-con right.

Then you don't know anything about her. She supports Romney, who is a GOP establishment RINO right down the line. She supports romneycare, which is full on RINO. She just says a lot of stuff, usually meaningless to what she actually does, which is whatever the RINO's do. She only says this or that for shock value, but her actions go along with the herd. I could mention names of people and groups that she has gone against, attacked, to nail the point, but then that would stir too much controversy in an already doomed ibtl thread. But she is establishment RINO, flat out.

What are you kidding?

Find me a neo-con who is not a RINO. There is no such thing.

IBTL

Thanks for that. All afternoon I've been picturing Ann Coulter as a dangerous Serengeti land mammal in the crosshairs of a poacher. It was really confusing to me emotionally.

Thank you, Krixtal, next time I get the question why the rest of the world hates America so much, I'll point them to this article and explain this is why. America is the only nation on Planet Earth where ignorance is socially accepted together with batshit insanity, sputtered by the likes of this woman.