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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

What Hath Soccer Wrought?

When I was a kid there was no soccer. There was Little League and Pop Warner Football. Girls went to dance classes.

Someone came along and said we need to have a sport where girls can compete, and where kids don't have to hit each other or risk injury from a thrown baseball. The powers-that-be at the time searched the world for the most boring sport possible that even someone standing in the middle of a field can claim they're "playing" and came up with soccer.

Today there are far more kids playing soccer than any of the other sports, and we've taught our little girls to be ruthless competitors, which brings us to this:



Progress.

1 comment:

Nightingale said...

Yup, and we girls can join the legions of men who have blown out their knees playing this gentle game.

Progress, huh?