I am not an avid international football fan by any stretch. I have enjoyed the 2014 FIFA World Cup and am currently considering using only one name like Pele and Ronaldo do.

I get the idea that Coulter was trying to be funny. Her trying to be funny in this instance is pretty much an un-funny version of anti-humor hitting you in the head like an Acme anvil.

Her column simply came across as boorish and maybe a trifle bigoted in trying to equate soccer's worldwide popularity to a liberal agenda destined to take down America from sea to shining sea while burning down its amber waves of grain.

She didn't even have the decency to mention any pride at the way our nation's team has played on soccer's biggest stage, which pretty much makes her a communist in my opinion. But since the new trend in American conservatism is to bow at the feet of Vladimir Putin I guess that makes it OK to have no pride in your own country.

The conservative diva forgets that without European football there would be no American football and there is nothing wrong in a sport that forbids the use of hands. Perhaps Coulter could have found something better to do with her hands than setting them on a computer keyboard when she had this brilliant idea to write a column bashing a sport I have decided takes much athletic prowess, stamina and skill than what she demonstrated in trying to tie the sport to immigration laws imposed in the 1960s.

Coulter forgets we are a nation of immigrants who proudly built this country and whose games evolved into sports we love.

Baseball, contrary to popular belief, was not developed by Abner Doubleday on a pastoral field in Cooperstown with the snap of his fingers. Its complex beginnings can be traced to the British game of rounders while the American version of football is clearly traced back to soccer and rugby.

It seems Coulter in her elitist fervor to close the borders at all costs with armed militia and baseball bats that have their roots traced back to England should be cornered kicked into the nearest net and freeze-dried for at least the next decade.

I realize this may be a tad harsh but when you write ludicrous columns — yes, I am guilty, too — you need to be dealt with by drone transport to some place where your ideas don't pollute the already hysterical masses.

As you can tell I have a multitude of concerns with our current thoughts on immigration policy in that I don't rightly know what is and isn't legal or illegal immigration. Of course, if you're crossing the borders with soccer balls full of heroin trying to get to Scotland Neck or Henderson there's no question you should be sent back from whence you came. Otherwise, freedom-loving immigrants should be given a chance to have a pathway that leads to U.S. Citizenship before they feel the wrath of American citizens who have apparently forgotten their own immigrant roots. She and the rest of this country forget that without immigrants we would have none of those odd little soccer-style kickers in the NFL who now make up the kicking population in American football.

I realize that attacking Coulter will lead some to believe I'm some sort of bleeding heart who desires world peace through kicking a ball around on an international arena but, fortunately, my politics can't be pigeon-holed to one distinct party affiliation or another as I believe both mainstream parties are equally bad for your health and well-being.

Coulter's dim view of soccer comes from out of nowhere and was apparently a decade in the making after not finding the taste from America's seasoned melting pot soothing to her bitter palate.

She rambles incessantly about lack of serious injury — ask the guy who was bitten last week about that — and liberal moms liking the sport because kindergarten boys and girls can play together. I think she forgot there is some sport in America called T-ball where this happens all the time. She failed to mention that no score is kept at this level. I believe scores should be kept so young'uns can learn early the difference between winning and losing so they become more stoic and pragmatic throughout life — so much for me being some bleeding heart.

While it took Coulter a decade to write her column, it took me about three days since I've been embroiled in real issues and breaking news — not showing my hatred and disrespect for my ancestors who came to a new land seeking new opportunities.

I suppose that's the difference between myself and Coulter — I pretty much know from whence I came while she is hiding somewhere under a deep rock of immigrant-hating rhetoric, hoping she can escape a flurry of red cards that are being sent her way — Lance Martin