May 3, 2006
GENERAL SHINKICKER:
The Passion of Eliot Spitzer (KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL, May 3, 2006, Opinion Journal)
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer appeared on Comedy Central late last year, admitting to host Stephen Colbert that as a kid he was the "enforcer" on the soccer team, the guy who "took people out." "You play hard, you play rough, and hopefully you don't get caught," he said. The AG was trying for a laugh, but it may have been one of the more revealing insights into his career.
Bad enough to reveal you played soccer, but the notion of a soccer enforcer is so ludicrous you make yourself a laughingstock. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 3, 2006 6:39 PM
Ah poor Oj, yet more evidence you've never actually watched a football match.
I suspect tho that if you wound up in prison with the likes of Vinnie Jones, or, to go further back, "Chopper" Harris, you'd drop Chow Yun Fat in a second.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at May 3, 2006 7:09 PMIf you allow a soccer player to make you his bitch you're gay.
Posted by: oj at May 3, 2006 7:11 PMThe world's hardest soccer player would be owned, in a completely sexual way, by any kicker in the NFL.
Heck, any second baseman would be Big Daddy within the week if he played soccer.
Posted by: Pepys at May 3, 2006 7:22 PMCan't you just hear Craig Grebeck telling Franz Beckenbauer, "You got a purty mouth, boy..."
Posted by: oj at May 3, 2006 7:26 PMThere's not a second baseman or an nfl kicker that wouldn't be catching what Vinnie Jones pitched.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at May 3, 2006 7:47 PMJim has a point, NFL kickers do kick using the soccer method after all. So, they are not Lou Groza anymore. But it is laugable that there are "enforcers" in soccer. I believe they get "red carded" (or whatever color the penalty card is)if they breath hard on an opponent.
Posted by: Bob at May 3, 2006 10:03 PMHad this been a Republican who uttered a line like "You play hard, you play rough, and hopefully you don't get caught," the big media would have played it up as another example of the culture of corruption.
Posted by: John at May 3, 2006 10:35 PMEliot Spitzer is a spoiled rich kid who lives off rent control. He will probably be elected, but Dick Grasso and Kenneth Langone are going to be acquitted, and Spitzer will start his term with a major black eye.
Posted by: jim hamlen at May 4, 2006 7:11 AMWow.
A guy says he plays soccer and that makes him gay?
As opposed to reaching into another man's crotch to grab a ball?
"The world's hardest soccer player would be owned, in a completely sexual way, by any kicker in the NFL.
Heck, any second baseman would be Big Daddy within the week if he played soccer. "
Funny. Amazingly funny.
What contact does a second baseman, or rather, ANY baseball player have? Baseball is a non-contact sport, like golf. Having said that. Soccer>American Football, Rugby>American Football.
Cheers
Posted by: Paulo at June 28, 2006 11:55 PM