Can You Believe This Idiot?

"Conservative suspicion was led by Jack Kemp, a former gridiron player and the Republican candidate for the vice-presidency in 1996 who in 1986 opposed a plan for the US to host the World Cup. 'I think it is important for all those young out there, who some day hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport,' he said."

The US Wises Up To the World Game