The sport of soccer is just another thing Americans just haven’t gotten the hang of yet, like the metric system and universal healthcare. Well one player on the New Mexico University women’s squad is out to change that by introducing something all red-blooded Americans love: blatant aggression.
Elizabeth Lambert has become a mini-Internet celebrity on the same level as that the Obama Girl and that kid who had his finger bit by Charlie.
While she may strike you as another beautiful co-ed, she has a dark side on the football field. Throwing elbows, tripping players… she does it all. The game is physical yes, but until they add a checkered ball to UFC fights, these kind of things shouldn’t happen in a soccer game. While a couple elbows may not matter, the clutch play is certainly the “pony-tail throwdown” on a player from BYU towards the end of the video clip above. That little nugget got her suspended indefinitely from the team and catapulted her to YouTube Greatness.
But what I think all the JACK listeners are wondering is why Chicago Bears’ Tommie Harris was looking to female soccer players for tips in the game last Sunday.