*: "As a boy I never even saw a soccer ball"

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They never heard of soccer at Andover and Yale? We know for sure you played rugby. There's a photo of you hitting someone illegally. (Surprise.)

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/rugby.asp

We used to laugh at those rich dickwads as we actually had girls at our school, but we sure as hell couldn't beat them at soccer as they were a 10x larger school than we were (and we generally didn't care either.) This was the same era as Il Dunce was doing new england prep school tour. What an f'ing liar. Is there anything he won't lie about?

Soccer was the number one sport at prep schools.

were made up of South Americans, Mexicans, a few Europeans and some prep school types.

See, the stupid little prick lies even when the truth would serve him just as well.

a soccer ball when I was a boy.

It's just that I can't get enthused about a game where an insurmountable lead is 2-0.

Also, the myth Americans believe about soccer is that it's low scoring because nothing happens. A soccer match plays out in 90 minutes. The clock never stops. If you played an entire NFL game out in 90 minutes with the clock never stopping it'd be lower scoring than soccer by miles. In fact, average touchdowns per game in the NFL are about equal with average goals scored per game in Soccer. It takes 3 + hours to complete an NFL game. And the NFL pads its scoreboard with field goals. Perhaps soccer would be more enticing if they awarded seven points for each goal and 3 points everytime someone hit the post or crossbar

Anyway, Bush is a shithead

that automatically translates into a whole "generation of Americans"? Sheesh. What a dip!

I'm the same age he is (approximately) and came from a small, rural, mostly farming area and our school had a soccer team. Two of them, actually...boys and girls. (The only team sport we had for girls besides slow pitch softball which was about as exciting to play as watching grass grow)

So don't tell me that a rich, white, privileged enclave didn't know what soccer was.

I graduated from High School in 1971 (seven years after chimpy) and in my fairly upper middle class world, there was no organized soccer league at the time. The first leagues started up a couple of years later. I imagine that soccer was still pretty rare in most of the country in the early 1960s, although it wouldn't surprise me if it there were competitions (at least intramural) at prep schools like Andover (where chimpy attended).

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I'm quite certain, because my brother was on it.

I can't know for sure, but let's say I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that Bush was full of shit AGAIN.

the f'ing liar was at Andover 61-64. I can assure you that Andover, prep school to the elites, did not invent their soccer team in '68.

There were only 2 schools with teams and we didn't get much in the way of spectators. It was an experiment by a VERY progressive new coach. But we did have the 2 teams so we knew what soccer was/is. Very exotic.

But then, the same coach talked the admin of the school into buying an old WWII plane and using it for shop class. The guys got to take it apart and put it back together, clean it up and display it next to the football field.

Isn't that where he went to prep school?

In fact, Connecticut has the oldest junior soccer camp in the country. 30+ years old. It's not as if soccer didn't exist up to that point, it just wasn't big enough for poor people to play it.

http://www.mysummercamps.com/camps/connecticut-soccer-camps.html

he's near 60, right?

he went to high school in the early to mid 60's.

nobody but east coast boarding school types played soccer then.

wait a second...

This should be easy to check.

Find out where he went to elementary and high school. Check the curriculum guides. Trust me, it'll be on there.

I suspect Andover had at least intramural soccer back in the 60s, but I don't know how to confirm it (unless someone has a yearbook they can check). The Andover website mentions soccer championships won by the school going back to 1981, but that's well after chimpy attended. Anyone have access to an old Andover yearbook?

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This is complete bullshit on busholini's part. Andover Exeter Deerfield Groton -the whole bunch of them played soccer.

Its pathetic. They are always trying to rewrite the Bush family history.

One day they will be so successful at this revisionism that people will, with a straight face, describe how Bush "made it on his own" and "came from nothing to be a success".


That is, they will take the Clinton story, and steal it.

when HW was helping kill JFK

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in the forties we played soccer.

It was a great game because size and strength were not required. Even little people could play the game and have fun.

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we played soccer in class......where was this idiot at this time........or did he skip out because he was afraid to shower in front of the boys?

Unlike Bush, I was born in Texas and have lived all my life in Texas. When I was in elementary/jr high school during 1965-1975, the boys would play soccer during recess every single day. It wasn't a school sponsored sport but they played it. That man just lies and lies.

not only do you sound like the ignorant pathetic loser trailer-trash backwater bozo that you really are, you have the audacity to represent the rest of us as ignorant, out of touchy, disinterested, narcissistic, and clueless too. Of which "generation" do you speak, anyway, Bonehead?

In so many MANY ways he always misses his opportunities in life to be brilliant, to have moments of greatness. No wonder all he can think of is that 7.5-inch, er, oops, ha ha, that 7.5-pound "perch" he caught that time he rented the pond at DisneyWorld and threw a bash for the Rangers and Pioneers, that time with Jeff Gannon . . .

with a 90 pound soccer ball

I think * is full of it, but I grew up in a fairly rural area where "real men" played football, "athletes" played baseball or went out for track and field, and an interest in any other sport automatically made you a suspect for being gay (and got you jumped regularly). I was a sophmore or junior in high school before I saw my first soccer game. Some of the Mexican kids finally convinced the school administration to allow them to form a team. They were allowed to play and practice on the football field whenever the football team wasn't using it for games or practice (we're not talking sharing here...the football team scheduled all of their field time for the season, and the soccer team got whatever was left over). They also weren't allowed to put a net on the field, so they had to erect a large PVC goal whenever they wanted to play, and lean it against the goalpost. More than once during games their goalies ended up hitting the goalposts while trying to block a kick.

The thing is, I grew up in a rural, very red area where football was the lifeblood of the community. Bush didn't.

sure, there were summers in kennebunkport

so soccer was probably only played by latinos, as in your story.

Due to the trauma inflicted by his parents (He wasn't allowed to mourn the death of his sister) or perhaps the drug and alcohol abuse. With this and some other things he has said, I think that this is a possibility.

back in the very early 1960s. And a game called "Speedball" was being played all over America in every school during that time. It uses a soccer ball and has all the elements of soccer, but also elements of American football and basketball thrown in. It's played on a soccer field with a net and goalie, but within certain limits, the player can touch, and dribble the ball with his hands. I played this game in every school's gym class I attended during my youth, all over the country (as my Dad was in the Air Force and got transferred a lot), in Junior and Senior High.