"The sport [soccer] just didn't exist." All lies, all the time.

Yesterday we were posting about Bush's interview with Bild, in which he claimed that he'd never seen a soccer ball, that "where I'm from," the sport wasn't played and "just didn't exist." Today I decided to check out the Phillips Andover Academy's website to learn if soccer was ever played there.

Please check out http://www.andover.edu/athletics/bsoccer/soccerNL.pdf.

It's Go BLUE, the Newsletter of Phillips Academy Boys' Soccer. The very first paragraph states: "The last team to go undefeated may have been the 1935 team, according to our number one fan, Fred Stott, PA '36." On page 7 there are comments from alumni who had played soccer while students at PA, including one former student from the class of '66 (in other words, someone who overlapped w/Bush at PA).

It appears that we can rely on Bush's making shit up on any subject, no matter how trivial.

So therefore soccer never existed. }(

First...it appears you have a dead link here so I couldn't see how old the program is, but I wouldn't be surprised if Soccer was added in the years since asshat was a cheerleader there. A lot of sports came along in the 70's...especially when Title 9 came in that helped set up women's athletics.

Trust me, we don't need more crap about this screw...there's plenty to go from already.

To me, the most telling recent stat is how booooosh now draws negative numbers among NASCAR fans (or so says Scarborough)...now is he gonna try buzzing AF1 around the Indy 500 again?

Bush is lying. Soccer has been a prep school sport for a very long time. I played Andover in 68/69. My school had been playing soccer since its founding in the 30s. Bush lies about everything. Always.

I played Soccer in the 60s as well, but my high school didn't start a team until after I graduated and the sport was left to the ethnics and amateurs as there was no organized Soccer in the U.S.

It's preaching to the choir here about how this asshat lies...and the minor ones are just par for the course. I'll stick to the lies about sending 2500 Americans to a needless deaths...compared to that soccer means nothing.

But I know that I've seen a picture of him playing soccer where he appeared to have been punching another player. I could be wrong--but I'm almost positive.

Has anybody else seen that picture?

It might have been from the Yale yearbook, but the caption described it as Bush fouling another player.

Someone posted the pic further down.

And hell yes that foul was dirty! :hi:

As I posted, apparently soccer was played at PA since the 1930s.

I enjoyed following up on our little thread from yesterday, but don't worry, I follow the big issues, too.

...for Andover's version of a soccer team in circa the late 30s/early 40s, as well as its baseball team (I read this in Kitty Kelley's book). Bush II was a disappointment to the family for not being able to letter in sports the way the father did. Seems hard to imagine Bush II wouldn't know about the accomplishments at school of the man (Bush I) who overshadowed Bush II's own Andover experience.

...neither. :silly:

I was thinking that it had been soccer. :(

Thanks for posting that pic. :hi:

When the truth is he just spent his summer vacations there.

Seeing as H.W. was the family sports star.

So the Hell what??? Who can vote for him again? Let's worry about our candidates, we are chasing nothing here.

I'll chase whatever I find of interest, if that's okay with you (all right, even if it's not).

He must know about SOMETHING, right?

They must NOT be reminded that he managed to remain ignorant of "soccer" even though it was played at his high-class Yankee school--back when the game was rare in much of the USA. (Alas for us--he managed to remain ignorant of most offerings at that fine school.)

And Bush has managed to retain his ignorance throughout all the years since. He's ignored the soccer dads & soccer moms cheering for their kids all over the USA. He's ignored the US struggling for respect in world football. And he's ignored the many teams, immigrant & native born, all ages, who fill up Houston parks on the weekends. Does he even know the Houston Chronicle Sports section covers the sport?

www.chron.com/sports/soccer/

This is not a major issue. But it's one more excuse to point out that Bush is an ignorant fool.

we didn't have a team, but then our school was so small, I don't think we had enough to have a team!

my only interest in soccer and Bush is whether he plans to bomb Iran during the World Cup while teh rest of the world is preoccupied. I already expect the US team to bomb during the World Cup.

was formed in 1894 . the first professional american style football league was 1895. the modern nfl was founded in the 1920`s. he`s an idiot.i guess he`s never heard of "soccer moms"

And yet he felt the need to lie anyway.

Seriously - I can see lying about comp;licity and incompetence in 9-11; lying about why he started an illegal war; lying about business dealings; etc. Those are all to his benefit to lie.

But what does he gain by lying about soccer?

He gains nothing, and thus we see the truly psychotic nature of his personality.