I'm working on a new open letter idea, one with a little more scope and potential impact than the last one, so I've brought you a few links to tide you over.

Zero soccer content in the first link, just an insanely idiotic view on American football that I think is worth sharing. This is why I get frustrated, and why I'd like to take a frying pan to the skulls of most American sports fans.

I'm not normally a reader of Bleacher Report, but I came across a of fan blog (I think it's a fan blog; the writing is horrible) that illustrates one of the cornerstone tenets of the typical American attitude towards soccer. The "there's not enough scoring" argument. The guy's even given some suggestions on how to "improve" the game and make it more palatable to the American sports fan (and I say BAH! to all of them)

This one is great. Apparently, soccer is akin to socialism, which it why it will never succeed here. I just might be in the market for a new nation to call home; if any of my international visitors would like to make a suggestion, feel free. Suffering fools is taking up way too much of my time.

No American attitudes in the fourth link, just an examination of "soccer chatter". Pretty interesting stuff, although I would argue that almost none of it applies on this side of the Atlantic.

And finally, a nice short piece on the "football or soccer" argument. I'll call it whatever I want, thank you very much. I'm all for using the two words interchangeably, as the meaning is almost always made clear by the context.