Football: Freedom Soccer League kicks off (In IRAQ)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Saturday, January 3, 2004 (Diwaniyah):

Friday marked the inauguration of the so-called Freedom Football (Soccer) League day in Southern Iraq.

More than 2,000 young people, from teams in Diwaniyah and the surrounding areas, received uniforms from the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)...

More: http://www.ndtv.com/sports/showsports.asp?sportname=Football&slug=Freedom+Soccer+League+kicks+off&id=14779

Was this script written by Mel Brooks?

[david_vincent]

1. the Freedom Football League...

right up there with the United We Will Win goat co-op.

[renegade000]

2. alright i've got a beef with the term "freedom" now...

it has nothing to do with the philosophical or political context it is being used it or anything. it is just that american society is killing the term...freedom fries, enduring freedom, freedom tower, freedom soccer league
the term "freedom" no longer evokes any sort of emotional response as it is meant to...freedom is a powerful human concept...

i mean, this has also got to be some sort of cultural stylistic issue.


and...no pun intended with the usage of beef in the subject line...contextual correlation to current events is purely and utterly coincidental...;-)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. I understand. This group has managed to cheapen the word "freedom"

to the point that it is a real joke. Sad.

[renegade000]

4. freedom this...freedom that...

its has just become cliche...:-(

[legin]

5. Perhaps

if I market having sex with me as 'Freedom Sex' I will get more sex, but probably I am being a bit optomistic. :evilgrin:

[Minstrel Boy]

6. So, it used to be called the French Football League?

:shrug:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. LOL.... Must have been. n/t

[Just Me]

8. Happy for the young people. BUT, who chose the name?

Saturation-syndrome,...or something. I really do wonder if those young people were asked to participate in giving themselves their own name.

[mouse7]

9. Baghdad forward Ali Mahrani fires RPGs at US Forces Team...

... and tallied a goal for his side easily after the team made up from members of US forces stationed in Iraq dived for cover.

Gives new meaning to the term, "He shoots! He scores!"

[Lars39]

10. Supplying soccer teams with uniforms is a tactic

used by southern bapt missionaries in Mexico. Which makes me wonder whose was this idea.

[jpgray]

11. The word "Freedom" has now officially lost all meaning. (nt)

[legin]

12. I was thinking about this in bed this mourning

The problem is that it is bush* and his idiots that are doing this, and also the fact that it sounds so forced perhaps because of the attachment to something already positive.

But if you match the word with something really awful I think it works a lot better.

"Could you do the freedom washing up please ?" or "Could you take the freedom garbage out please", sounds so much more exciting than the normal.

Standing up in the middle of dinner and saying "won't be a moment, I gotta take a dump" could be regarded as a bit off, whereas saying "I could be a while, I go to take a dump for freedom" sounds positivly Scott of the Antartic.

[Minstrel Boy]

13. "Freedom" has become the property of those who despise it.

You don't like the war? You got a problem with FREEDOM?

It's been hollowed of content and become a bully club. I'm coming to hate the sound of it.

[Rex]

14. Freedom Soccer League is doubleplusgood!!!

nt

[peterh]

15. Berkeley Sexual Freedom League

http://www.samsloan.com/sfl.htm

Maybe we can send Sam Sloan over there to start up a new chapter of the old Berkeley Sexual Freedom League….it might do wonders to relieve tension….Make Love not War…

Not popular with conservatives, but what the hey…

[EV1Ltimm]

16. is it played at the freedom arena? on freedom turf?

i'd imagine freedom tickets are selling like freedom filafels

[renegade000]

17. all the players' first names have been changed to freedom