Americans Don't Flop For Soccer

If there's one element of soccer that keeps the majority of anti-futbol Americans on the far side of the fence, it isn't the low scoring or the foreign-sounding names. No, it's the flopping — the overly dramatic, theatrical, bad-high-school-play-style imitations of actual injury that halt play. 

Flopping runs counter to classic American values like "play hurt" and "rub some dirt in it, you'll be fine," and thus infuriates a certain subset of American fans.

That subset now has its justification. A film company named Fourgrounds Film has created a short film titled "Everyday Football Fouls." The premise is: What if the rest of the world flopped like soccer players? Simple premise, delightful execution. Enjoy, and make sure to watch through to the very end.

Feel free to use this technique yourself ... though be careful about flopping in locations that don't have magic spray close at hand.

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With the bad press and the terrible football season for UNC there is a bright side to the greatness of the UNC legacy. There are still lots of teams willing to challenge the UNC football team to exhibition games. These teams feel that they are as good if not greater than one of the best teams in college football.

We could have one of the greatest games ever played in North Carolina once the Consolidated Football Federation has announced the winning team of this year’s Pee Wee Football Championship game. This will give the UNC football program better odds at losing a game by single digits instead of the usual 20+ differences.

Even though a player for UNC may be arrested for driving without a license, having illegal drugs and a gun while in a felon’s car, that doesn't mean that they're all bad roll models. Yes a few players have broken multiple UNC and NCAA rules and regulations as well as multiple North Carolina state laws. But they still have a right to an education; even though some former students still can't read or write. For that matter certain class credits have been taken away from students due to a fraudulent teacher who was teaching nonexistent classes.

But UNC as a whole has a commitment of a higher standard that is not being reported in the media. To raise tuition rates and other fees to cover multiple lawsuits from former players, students and teachers. To pay out huge settlements to former coaches and administrators who were scapegoated out of the University. Paying heavy fines for all the violation the students, staff and University officials broke.

But most of all, UNC is committed to help the new incoming University Chancellor in receiving a huge pay raise as former Chancellor HoldenThorp was making about $420,000 a year. Yes UNC is everything one can expect from a public school system that receives tax payer’s money to help run the school. And with a new $810 million bond that recently passes, things are looking brighter for UNC's future.

Andrew Samuel "Andy" Griffith

June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012

The comedy skit that made him famous and jump started his career. Enjoy.
more info about him and his career here