Ann Coulter - The troll of all trolls

[Napoléon]

[DeistPaladin]

We are proud to have given football to the world, all we ask is you give it time and you will learn to love it as we do. It's part of the fabric that is woven onto our hearts. Anyone who cannot see this doesn't understand the game at all.

I think we just don't want to give it that kind of chance because it might bring our attention to the embarrassing fact that our "Football" is a sport where the ball is carried around in the player's hands.

Please don't ask me to explain how that happened. I've often wondered that myself.

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http://uproxx.com/webculture/2014/06/ann...ral-decay/

Say what you really mean, Ann "People who are a different colour to me like this sport, so as a real American I have to hate it." What an asshat. I hope this gives the world cup even higher ratings! Gives me more incentive to watch anyway.

I'm convinced she IS a troll in the internet-forum sense of the word. I don't think she really believes half the things she says. I think she says them precisely because she knows they're offensive and it gets her attention.

Others like her, the Rush Limbaugh types, are probably also trolls who spew their bile because it gets them fame, attention and money. They know if they ever lose that attention, they have to get real jobs. So they follow the P.T. Barnum strategy "hate me, mock me, just don't ignore me." (or words to that effect).

Just remember, "oink".

Pigs go "oink". It's in their nature. They're pigs. It's completely predictable.

"Can you believe what Ann Coulter just said?"
"Can you believe what Rush Limbaugh just said?"
"Can you believe what Liz Cheney just said?"

"Yeah, they said, 'oink' once again."

The problem is not the pig people who say 'oink'. The problem is with our media that puts a microphone and a camera in front of them and interviews them like they have something to say.

[Anomalocaris]

We are proud to have given football to the world, all we ask is you give it time and you will learn to love it as we do. It's part of the fabric that is woven onto our hearts. Anyone who cannot see this doesn't understand the game at all.

We can't understand soccer because we have the attention span of a gnat, and can't understand what there is to watch if it takes 90 minutes to score a goal.

Our resentment of soccer is further increased by the fact that it seems to grab the attention of most of the world that we believe ought to have been better devoted to American football.

[ManMachine]

I think we just don't want to give it that kind of chance because it might bring our attention to the embarrassing fact that our "Football" is a sport where the ball is carried around in the player's hands.

Please don't ask me to explain how that happened. I've often wondered that myself.

William Webb Ellis might have the answer to that.

William Webb Ellis

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[downbeatplumb]

My first sports love will always be American Rules Football. Specifically, the Denver Broncos. It's the game I grew up with.

That's the game where people line up, charge at each other for about two seconds then mill about for a bit.

And you can't understand REAL football! amazing.

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What we Brits love most about the game that sprang out of inter-village competitions (it began as a competition between entire villages with the aim of getting a specific object - which later became a pig's bladder then a ball - into the centre of the opposing village), is the drama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x__U93cin1o

[Ravenshire]

it began as a competition between entire villages with the aim of getting a specific object - which later became a pig's bladder then a ball - into the centre of the opposing village

"Kicking the Dane's Head!" It's the same game that fathered American Rules Football as well.

I think we just don't want to give it that kind of chance because it might bring our attention to the embarrassing fact that our "Football" is a sport where the ball is carried around in the player's hands.

Please don't ask me to explain how that happened. I've often wondered that myself.

Because the rules evolved differently for American Rules Football. Why they never re-named it, especially considering Rugby also came from the same root game, is beyond me.

[Lek]

http://uproxx.com/webculture/2014/06/ann...ral-decay/

Say what you really mean, Ann "People who are a different colour to me like this sport, so as a real American I have to hate it." What an asshat. I hope this gives the world cup even higher ratings! Gives me more incentive to watch anyway.

The way she writes here is the way she writes all the time. You fell into her trap. It's all part of her persona. American sports are full of people of a different color and nationality than her.

[JuliaL]

We are proud to have given football to the world, all we ask is you give it time and you will learn to love it as we do. It's part of the fabric that is woven onto our hearts. Anyone who cannot see this doesn't understand the game at all.

I am ambivalent over sport.
Any activity which diverts the nationalism of adults and the aggressive tendencies of early post adolescent males without the use of firearms is ok with me.
But the income stratification between the top tier and the rest of the wannabes is a sad joke. Too many young people are lured into dedicating their lives and often losing their good health to an activity which never pays off. Like the lottery, there are a few winners and lots of losers.

[Minimalist]