Its not just that the wrong people like it – Coulter thinks football as a sport is intrinsically socialist. In soccer, she laments, there are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no childs fragile self-esteem is bruised. Unlike the glorious sports of basketball, American football and baseball, she says, all individual talent is subsumed into the back-patting, winning-isnt-everything comradeship of football. (Because obviously, no one minds if you win or lose a game of football – and at the full-time whistle, after meditating for a while, the players pool their wages with the fans, before shyly retiring to their modest homes and ascetic lifestyles.) In any case, are American sports really a Randian festival of untrammelled capitalist heroics, as she claims? Besides being more arcane, bureaucratic and hyper-managed than anything the Soviet Union ever dreamt up, the draft system used in most American team sports sends the very best young players to the clubs that did most poorly the previous season, in order to establish parity and fairness the following season. Have you ever heard of anything more socialist in your life? As if that wasnt enough, the NFL, MBA and NHL even have salary caps! Negotiated by – wait for it – trade unions! The MLB, meanwhile, has something called a luxury tax on its richest teams. What kind of lefty nonsense is this? theguardian/commentisfree/2014/jun/27/world-cup-fever-america-ann-coulter-football-socialism-team-usa?CMP=fb_gu
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