The Official WHO CARES about the World Cup thread

[BrianD]

You should always wear your cup playing baseball, unless of course you are a girl.


Or, you are Q.

[Misfit6669]

I prefer the Official World D-Cup

[gabrito]

Vamos Argentina Carajo!

[Fizhstiks]

GO NETHERLANDS!!!!!

[michaelm2431]

Go NY Giants.

[hogpark7430]

Go Oilers

[BrianD]

Go Cardinals! We need Pujols back.

[joeychitwood]

I see more action watching the Collonista snails on the glass of my tank for three hours.

[Misfit6669]

Come on Joey, I think you could learn something from these soccer players. When they flop, oh I mean fall or get tripped. It appears they tear every ligament and tendon from head to toe the way they are rolling around in pain. Within 5 minutes, they are running around like nothing happened. Must be some kind of miracle cure that I think could help you out in your profession. There must be something to all those orange wedges they grew up on.

[jpfelix]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7568156#post7568156 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Misfit6669
There must be something to all those orange wedges they grew up on.

might as well eat some while you spend all day pickin' 'em.;)

[Misfit6669]

did you say/type that out loud ;)

[joeychitwood]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7568242#post7568242 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jpfelix
might as well eat some while you spend all day pickin' 'em.;) "Post of the Day" award winner.

[Sea Ninja]

You know whats funny Brian D, I used to play ball with a girl in a pony league (advanced baseball league name) and this girl Beth and I were the catchers. Well the umpire ask Beth if she was wearing a cup and when she told him she wasn't he would not let her play.

[Scuba_Dave]

Yup girls need protection too, must keep those ...baseballs...from doing any harm, plus the bat could really hurt
I like D cups too, with a little whipped cream

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

but the downside is those D cups get rottin and runny real quick....you have to get them while they're fresh ;)

[gabrito]

people that say soccer is boring obviously have no freakin clue of what the sport is about and i'm sure they never played it. In fact, if you give them a ball they probably wouldn't know what to do with it.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

there's already a thread for you people ;)

...ohh, and i actually did play until i was finally allowed to play 'football' when i was a young teenager. give me a break ;)

and reality is soccer will never be big here in the states, sorry to burst your buuble with shin guards :)

[Misfit6669]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7570175#post7570175 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gabrito
people that say soccer is boring obviously have no freakin clue of what the sport is about and i'm sure they never played it. In fact, if you give them a ball they probably wouldn't know what to do with it. I think one team tries to kick the ball into the net but I will look it up to make sure.

[gabrito]

[violation]

[Misfit6669]

Ok, I was close.
Per FIFA


Law 10 – The Method of Scoring

Goal Scored
A goal is scored when the whole of the ball passes over the goal line, between the goalposts and under the crossbar, provided that no infringement of the Laws of the Game has been committed previously by the team scoring the goal.

Winning Team
The team scoring the greater number of goals during a match is the winner. If both teams score an equal number of goals, or if no goals are scored, the match is drawn.

Competition Rules
When competition rules require there to be a winning team after a match or home-and-away tie, only the following procedures, which have been approved by the International F.A. Board, are permitted


Ok, I now have a better understanding and it still bores the hell out of me but so does baseball.

[Misfit6669]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7570229#post7570229 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gabrito
football is for fags.... u gotta wear all that protection cause ur afraid of hurting....

soccer won't be big in the states cause all americans have ADD

DUDE, relax or leave or get moved on.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

m-e-d-i-c-a-t-i-o-n

[Misfit6669]

Hey Matt, you gotta love soccer fan, they get worked up so easily.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

i just hit my shin on the corner of the couch.....and now i'm on the ground in immense pain, i think my leg might have to be amputated, seriously..........................Who am I?

[Misfit6669]

Just give it 2 minutes Matt and everything will be fine.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

man, you just struck out......you were supposed to say...

"you must be a soccer player"

[Misfit6669]

Yeah, but that was a given and just like soccer player you will be fine in 2 minutes

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

ahhh, sorry master....took me a minute, i am humbled in your wisdom :reading:

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

ahhh, sorry master....took me a minute, i am humbled by your wisdom :reading:

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

now on the other side, i can see how these 1-0 scores i see on the line look like they were awefully dramatic, intense games , that were action packed :beachbum:

[Misfit6669]

goooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllll.

I think the guy yelling goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogoooooooooooooooogooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
is the best part of the game but it only happens a few times a game if were lucky.

[BrianD]

Did I actually read what I thought I read a few posts back?

Methinks someone needs a break.

[BrianD]

There.

Now he has more time to watch his thrill-a-minute, action-packed sport that Americans are too stupid to understand.

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Gooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111one one one eleventy1111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BrianD]

I guess it is exciting to go to soccer games and watch the fans pummel each other.

[Nina51]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7571075#post7571075 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BrianD
Did I actually read what I thought I read a few posts back?

Methinks someone needs a break.

golly gee, i wondered if anybody of importance was gonna pick up on that.

i find that a soccer ball is the best kind to buy for my dogs. it is easy to deflate just enough so the dogs can pick it up and carry it around but it stays inflated enough so that i can still give it a good swift kick across the alfalfa field. yessiree, i switched to partially inflated soccers balls when i broke my big toe on a basketball. :D

[gobygoby]

....do they think its hard to kick a ball or something?.....

[BrianD]

You have to kick it into a NET!

I think you can also bounce it off your head.

[gobygoby]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7572029#post7572029 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BrianD
I think you can also bounce it off your head.

oh....kinda like juggling! now thats hard! anyone can kick a ball into a net but not everyone can juggle 3 razor sharp swords that are on fire, now that takes talent....not kicking a ball into a giant clothes hamper :)

[Nina51]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7572029#post7572029 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BrianD
You have to kick it into a NET!

I think you can also bounce it off your head.

my very favorite part is when they pat each other on the butt after a goal. do they do those silly dances like football players do?

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

look ma'....no hands

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7572061#post7572061 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Nina51
my very favorite part is when they pat each other on the butt after a goal. do they do those silly dances like football players do?

no, they rip their jerseys off to show their huge 5'8"/120lb. frames....and then they take a run and slip&slide ;)

[Nina51]

hey, i'm only 3" shorter than that and about the same weight. are you calling me huge?? you better not be or i'll hafta thump you.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

no, no, no.....although, yeah you are as big as them and jockey's ;)

[BrianD]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7572082#post7572082 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by E-A-G-L-E-S
no, they rip their jerseys off to show their huge 5'8"/120lb. frames....and then they take a run and slip&slide ;)

I want to slip and slide!

[Nina51]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7572133#post7572133 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by E-A-G-L-E-S
no, no, no.....although, yeah you are as big as them and jockey's ;)

hey, i do not wear jockeys.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

chicks look hot in jockeys and nothing else :D

[stlrams88]

I prefer the Official World D-Cup

Amen....

[Scuba_Dave]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7572029#post7572029 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BrianD
I think you can also bounce it off your head.

Doesn't that hurt??

oh....I see........nevermind.....

[Scuba_Dave]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7572105#post7572105 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Nina51
you better not be or i'll hafta thump you.


ooohh.......must not edit.......must not........edi

[Ironsheikh]

hey you gotta love a sport where you can get mugged or stabbed in the audience at any moment

forza italia!!!!!!

oh, and GO ARLOVSKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ironsheikh]

hey you gotta love a sport where you can get mugged or stabbed in the audience at any moment

forza italia!!!!!!

oh, and GO ARLOVSKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[baz]

I wonder though if the Iranian President will go and watch if they make it through to the next round? What he believes what happend or did not happen during WWII would get him arrested in Germany. Mr bush could also go if the USa make it in the next round.

What a political game it would be if the USA had to play Iran. It would be Christianity agains the muslim world right? At least that would be the way it would be spun in the media.

But what other sport could possibly have that much political chaos. Not football or Baseball. I do not think.....

Thoughts?

[Stubby]

Soccer will never be popular here because there isn't any strong physical contact or cool jumping slam dunks. Guess what's popular in America? Football, basketball, baseball(doesn't apply to rule), and over-the-top "wrestling"(I don't like it either). Do you know why football players wear armor? 1. Because they need to protect themselves from injury. 2. Because when football was still a young sport and people wore almost no armor and just a leather helmet, players died every year. From highschool to the collegiate to pro(if there were pros back then). Have you ever seen/heard of a soccer player killed while playing soccer? Even now, a very small percentage of football players are paralyzed or die.


[violation]

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

seriously....you trash america's likes, yet you live here?
hmmmm....seems to me you can leave whenever you want if its so horrible here and i will not miss you ;)


ohh and all of these countries that love soccer, why is it they kill their own teams' players if they mess up in the cup and chant racist sayings and throw bananas, etc.? .......boy they do sound like great countries :lolspin:

[DHyslop]

IBTL

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

IBTL?

[Blindmelonbob]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49524

Devastated By U.S. World Cup Team's First-Round Loss, Nation Grinds To Halt June 15, 2006 | Onion Sports NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, and WASHINGTON, DC—With the Dow Jones average down over 600 points, factory productivity in a downward spiral, and workplace attendance down by nearly a third, experts say the U.S. World Cup team's heartbreaking 3-0 defeat at the hands of Czech Republic on Monday has brought life across the soccer-crazed nation to a virtual standstill. "What happened in Gelsenkirchen has indeed dealt a grievous blow to the morale of the American people," said President Bush, who had promised his constituency a swift and speedy victory in the World Cup this year and whose popularity has taken a 9 percent hit since the U.S. team's loss. "I want the citizens of this great nation, the world's only remaining superpower, to know that I grieve alongside them and urge them to be strong in our hour of darkness, and urge them to return to their jobs and schools despite their heavy hearts." Mere days ago, the feeling across the nation was one of great joy, eager anticipation, and optimism for the prospects of the most talented American team to ever take the field. It is estimated that over 85 percent of U.S. households were watching the USA–Czech Republic matchup. And going into the game that most Americans have been waiting for, analyzing, and all but living for during the past four years, schools, offices, shopping centers—everything, in fact, except vital services—closed their doors as the game began. Now, days after the end of penalty time, many of those doors are still closed. "I take full responsibility for losing the game," said Claudio Reyna, whose shot off the crossbar of the Czech goal as the U.S. trailed 1-0 in the opening half of play has been shown to coincide with a significant bump in the suicide rate, a momentary increase in reports of domestic violence, and a $0.45 increase in the per-gallon price of gasoline. "But we still have games to play in this opening round. I realize that the United States, more than any other country, loves this game. But that is no reason for so many people to cancel their weddings." The general feeling of hopelessness may be felt across the United States, the nation the rest of the world thinks of as Pelé's adopted home, the land that popularized the term "soccer," and Americans are finding many different ways to voice their despair. Hundreds of yards of black bunting hung over the head and arms of the Statue of Liberty has yet to be removed by the New York City Parks Department; similar shrouds have appeared on Mount Rushmore, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Hawaii's Pearl Harbor Memorial. Las Vegas casinos are running skeleton staffs at the tables and doubling the size of security shifts, at once worrying over their empty floors and fearing retribution at the hands of World Cup gamblers who bet on the U.S. out of loyalty. And the House of Representatives, which traditionally remains closed throughout the World Cup, called a special session for the specific purpose of introducing a bipartisan bill that would change America's national sport back to baseball. "This cannot last," said Bruce Arena, coach of the U.S. World Cup team and by extension effectively the second-most powerful man in America, in an address televised simultaneously on every national channel Wednesday night. "We cannot have crops unharvested in the fields, the doors of our churches sealed shut, the Stars and Stripes fixed at half-mast, all because of our dishonorable standard of play. We cannot ask you to forgive our loss to the Czechs, as that must be left to the wisdom of the God of our fathers. We have always been a nation blessed with strength, not only in our love for our soccer teams, but in our love for one another, and we must call on both now if we are to endure these dark days." At press time, the U.S. team is scheduled to play Italy on Saturday and Ghana the following Thursday, and the National Guard has reported moderate casualties while attempting to contain hooligan activity in the nine largest U.S. cities.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

i'm supposed to root for this aweful team? i grew up with guys better than them, lol

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

You See! that guy barely touched the italian's leg and he gets kicked out of the game for being to rough, LOL, LOL, LOL :lolspin:

[DJ88©]

closed

[BTTRFLYGRL]

Closed?

Soccer bashing:eek:

Okay....I do not watch men play soccer...I like watching men play Football...BUT
I will watch womens soccer..My oldest played on a travel team
for years..Women players are very aggresive [hmmm must be those hormones;) ]

My 5 year old daughter plays now....I may let my son play while he's young, they can start at 4...But will encourage him to play football, baseball [not going to be tall enough for basketball]

And really.... you may think its easy to 'just kick the ball' but its not...My daughters coach made the parents play a game against the 15 year old girls....Believe me, its not as easy as it looks....

My .02 cents:D Now you can continue your male soccer bashing:D

[Misfit6669]

My .02 cents Now you can continue your male soccer bashing
If you insist ;)

[Tbare89]

Why would you come in a thread about soccer and bash it?

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7579325#post7579325 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BTTRFLYGRL
My .02 cents:D Now you can continue your male soccer bashing:D


I wasn't going to, but since you told us to do so ;)

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7579427#post7579427 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tbare89
Why would you come in a thread about soccer and bash it?

why would you come to a anti-soccer thread and post that question? lol


it seems like a mission for you guys that like soccer to get us into it.....like we just need to listen to your reasoning and we'll change our minds.....thats not going to happen.
We just don't like the game ;)

[Tbare89]

Meant to say why would you make a thread about bashing soccer. Then make a new thread asking why we are so sensitive about our sport?

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

two different guys made the two threads ;)

maybe its because we got sick of seeing the 'other' soccer thread flashing all day....

anyway you slice it, what does it matter and why are you guys so sensitive?