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#99066 - 06/05/09 09:05 PM
Re: Soccer is ruining America?
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I think there's an argument to be made that Professional Soccer is more American than the NFL... hear me out...
Most Pro-Soccer leagues don't have a salary cap and the "market" drives success and if a team isn't up to scratch it moves down the pyramid just like a failing business in a capitalist democracy. The NFL however is all about parity and all teams being equal in a very (there's no other word for it) Communist way.
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#99067 - 06/09/09 11:08 AM
Re: Soccer is ruining America?
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SKMDC: In teresting take.
In addition to the NFL, the NBA & NHL also have salary caps.
WUSA and MLS both have salary caps.
So one could argue that the salary cap is pretty much the current, "American way".
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#99068 - 06/09/09 12:16 PM
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Why is it Americans have this twisted view of socialism & communism, and use both as an insult.
Surely the curent economic crisis proves that the capitalist system isn't perfect either ?
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#99069 - 06/10/09 09:20 AM
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Doc, personally I try to not discuss politics or anything too serious online.
I was just responding to the salary cap facet in US professional sports that SKMDC was referencing...
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#99070 - 06/10/09 02:51 PM
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Not trying to start a row, more a social (as opposed to socialist)observation.
Personally I am a Groucho Marxist Revolutionary myself.
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#99071 - 06/11/09 06:11 AM
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No, I didn't think that you were starting a row, you were just sharing an observation. I just stay away from politics online unless it is the politic of sport. 
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#99072 - 06/11/09 10:57 AM
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I was watching a you tube video on the infamous 1974 British Lions rugby union tour of South Africa.
Everyone slagged them off for going because of apartheid, but funnily enough when they got home, the Labour government cheered them for having won the series.
Politics...
From the Greek, Poli = many, Tics = annoying insects.
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