On his webcast yesterday morning, Religious Right activist and former football coach Dave Daubenmire unleashed a rant about NFL players who choose to kneel during the national anthem, during which he also railed against soccer.
"American boys play football," he said, "they don’t play soccer."
Daubenmire returned to the topic during his webcast today, suggesting that there is an effort to encourage young boys to play soccer in order to undermine the institution of family and insisting that people who can't see this obvious fact are simply blind to the spiritual forces at work.
Daubenmire said that during his coaching years, he routinely saw "little 5 and 6-year-old boys drug off over to the soccer field and their daddies didn't even know what soccer was, the daddies couldn't talk to their sons about, 'Oh yeah, back when I played soccer' and then the boys could never talk to their dads about when they played football because they took them all and stuck them over in soccer."
"Why do we have soccer fields everywhere?" he asked. "Because it takes a man to play football and mommies don't like seeing their little boys get knocked down, so mommies put them into soccer where they get little knee pads and they don't really hurt each other."
"What does grandpa get to do on Saturday morning?" Daubenmire continued. "Go watch my grandson play football? No. He's a penguin, he's running around hitting balls with his head. I can't relate to him playing soccer. But I can go to a football game and watch him get knocked on his butt, be able to tell him after the game, 'You know, that happened to me back when I was playing too and let me tell you what to do.' But I can't help him with soccer."
"Do you guys think I'm crazy?" he asked. "I don't care. I'm telling you [the truth.]"
