Today is a special day. Do you know why? (326 hits)
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Submitted by SiskelandFatboy (View user info) at 2006-07-10 10:32:06 EDT
You are receiving this because today is a special day. If not to you, then to someone in your life.
Today, you see, is the first day absent World Cup Soccer. Today is the first day of a 3 year period with no soccer on ESPN, ESPN 2 and ESPN Classic. Soccer at 10 am, 1 and 3:30 PM. Only to be replayed at 8 - 10 -12 that night. No more Sportscenter - "Live from the World Cup" or - "Here in Berlin" No more seeing highlights and discussions about the beauty of all the offensive attacks during a 1-0 game. No more trying to do math to figure out how much time is left in the game. No more figuring it out only to have some "extra time" added to the game. No more wondering why they can't afford a clock that runs backwards and has a pause/stop feature.
No more seeing passive offsides or trying to understand the pass-back rule (or lack there of, I should say). No more seeing the team who is trailing intentionally kick the ball out of bounds because their opponent is on the field, tragically injured. In the rest of the world, we call that an advantage or a scoring opportunity. Especially when the tragically injured miraculously recovers once the ball is kicked out of bounds. And no more wondering why no one else is questioning him about his curing of biblical proportions.
No more watching 3rd world countries, whose only means of ecomonic structure is exporting illegal drugs into America, or those poor countries with a annual gross national product of < 20 dollars, send the athletes they invested millions into training into a tournament where they can be humiliated by the stronger, pharmaceutically enhanced European or South American Powers.
No more seeing Trindad Tobago and the Ivory Coast mortgage their ecominc stability for 3 consecutive five-nothing (I'm sorry, 'Nil') losses and an "I played in the World Cup" Tee Shirt. No more seeing Brazilian/Argentinian temper and their absence of sportsmanship at the end of a game that supposedly has around 2,516 unwritten rules of sportsmanship and respect. No more yellow cards for unsafe moves. No more red cards for an unsafe move because he got one yellow card last Tuesday and that disqualifies him for this game and the next game, while trying to understand why they have to play a man short today but can substitute for him to begin the next game. No more trying to understand why the penalty for aggressively going after the ball is the same as the penalty kicking a man in the jewels.
No more rolling the eyes at retarded, self-important bar patrons because one TV in the corner of a room containing 9 TVs is showing the US Open or the Yankees game "WHILE THE WORLD CUP IS GOING ON!"
No more watching a tournament where AMERICANS are rooting for the Germans, Italians, Brazillians or any other country. We're playing, therefore we become, BY DEFAULT, your favorite team. That's the way it works.
And last but not least, watching a sport in which THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA, the preeminent power in every aspect of existence; athletics, economic stability, democracy, war and anything you can think of, ......sucks.
Yes, Today is an exciting day. A new beginning.
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