6/09/2010

Soccer and Religion on Jerry Coyne's Blog

Jerry Coyne just posted a Nike comercial about soccer.

Some guy named littlejohn wrote on the comments:

littlejohn
Posted June 9, 2010 at 9:10 am | Permalink
Soccer is not a sport. Period. A bunch of geeky foreigners run around in silly shorts for hours. A typical score is 1-0. The same could be said of hockey, of course, but at least we let them get into fistfights. The only thing that could make soccer interesting would be land mines.

Even though I don't really like soccer, I had to warn the guy. You can just go around and write things like that about soccer... its really dangerous. So I wrote:

Felipe
Posted June 9, 2010 at 9:40 am | Permalink
@littlejohn

Dude, if you ever come to Brazil don’t ever say that out loud!

Here everyone (christians, atheists, communists, libertarians, …) is crazy about soccer! (everyone but me)

It’s the real national religion (instead of the official Catholicism).

You say “soccer is not a sport” in here and the radical soccer fans might stone you to death for apostasy
.


The first reply took 6 minutes:

piero
Posted June 9, 2010 at 9:46 am | Permalink
“Might”? Would! For it IS apostasy! Death to cricket, rugby, football(American), baseball and anything-but-soccer fans!


I don't know where this Piero is from... but he surely thinks like a brazilian.

PS.: There are a lot of other replies already. If you're a sports person you might want to follow the comments here

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