The United States’ soccer team got the country interested in the world’s game for a few days last week by pulling off an upset of number one ranked Spain. The U.S. citizens were ready to go into full bandwagon mode when Clint Demspey and Landon Donovan put Team USA up 2-0 against Brazil, but the Brazilian rally put the party on hold.
Being the loyal American that he is, Stephen Colbert supports the U.S. soccer team, and makes a good case for supporting soccer in general.
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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Soccer Pros: Fun Scarves and riots
Soccer Cons: Players must be in shape and low scoresFrom Babe Ruth to CC Sabathia, our world-class athletes are traditionally one corn dog away from a massive coronary.
Colbert didn’t do enough to turn me into a full-fledged soccer fan but rioting with a scarf on sounds like fun.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Trouble is I think (unless Colbert is in on the joke), he played himself with one of his jokes on soccer:
http://www.footballiscominghome.net/video/stephen-colbert/