In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
The religious right is motivated by the suspicion that someone, somewhere,
is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.
Other teams have superstars. The San Francisco Giants have a buncha overgrown kids scraped off the bottom of the barrel having fun playing a kids' game -- and whipping the ass of the overpaid superstars. What's not to like? :).
-- Badtux the Appreciative Penguin
A big flap of her scalp got knocked off by an opposing player. So what did World Cup Soccer player Abby Wambach do? Well, the obvious, of course. She ran to the locker room, got her scalp stitched back together, and ran back into the game.
Anybody who calls soccer a "wuss sport" better not do so in the presence of Abby Wambach.
-- Badtux the Admiring Penguin
