And the audio was heard by no one.

See? Having a lot of Mexican immigrants in the country has its perks.

See? Soccer, uh, FOOTBALL is clearly taking over American sports fans, just as it has been for the past 30 years.

I missed the second half, and I'm rather glad I did.

tivo neglected to update its listings when espn moved the game from espn2 to espn, so when i got home i had 2 hours of the world series of poker on my tivo. i was really angry. then i tuned in just in time to see the build up and game winning goal. really angry.

NittLion78: See? Having a lot of Mexican immigrants in the country has its perks.

QFT

thomps: so when i got home i had 2 hours of the world series of poker on my tivo.

The same thing happened to me. I was pissed

So is that number just the people who sat down and watched the game live or does it include those of us who DVRed it?

I watched it.

Dr.Knockboots: And the audio was heard by no one.

WAAAAHHHHH WAAH WAHHH WAHHHHHHHHH WAH WAH WHA HWA WHA HW HA WHAHHHHHHHHHHH WAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

/thats all I could hear.

Hollywood Cole: So is that number just the people who sat down and watched the game live or does it include those of us who DVRed it?

Pretty sure it only counts those with the TV on while the game is happening live and does not include DVR or ESPN 360.

I think I remember hearing that on a podcast (that ratings don't include TiVo and the like) but I'm not 100% certain.

Either way, good showing.

I hate Brazil. Not the soccer team. The entire country.

/except for Blanka, he's cool

vinnydoz007: Dr.Knockboots: And the audio was heard by no one.

WAAAAHHHHH WAAH WAHHH WAHHHHHHHHH WAH WAH WHA HWA WHA HW HA WHAHHHHHHHHHHH WAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

/thats all I could hear.

i thought the stadium had been surrounded by south africanized bees

Bufu: See? Soccer, uh, FOOTBALL is clearly taking over American sports fans, just as it has been for the past 30 years.


Not likely. What is likely is that chumps like you will continue to come into threads to let everyone know how little you like the thread at hand.

Get more friends, stop being such a loser.

bukketmaster: I hate Brazil. Not the soccer team. The entire country.

/except for Blanka, he's cool



or




Nerd.

Those horns were a bit annoying. I bet it made communication at field level super tough. Hopefully they won't be allowed at WC'10.

Now lets see if some of that audience begins to follow the US through the rest of qualification. The numbers there could prove interesting

spqr2001: Those horns were a bit annoying. I bet it made communication at field level super tough. Hopefully they won't be allowed at WC'10.

I'm fairly certain I saw a snip-it of a press conference where the the president of FIFA said they were staying since it wasn't their right (or something) to ban them as they're a part of African culture.

So we all get to still pretend the FSM is smiting RSA with locusts next summer.

I think Americans who like socer know that it will always be a second tier sport, but that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. By the way it is possible to like soccer AND football. You won't asplode from it or anything

This just in, 3.9 million insomniacs were cured and slept like a baby.


/see, soccer has its uses.

Crewmannumber6: I think Americans who like socer know that it will always be a second tier sport, but that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. By the way it is possible to like soccer AND football. You won't asplode from it or anything

And hockey, baseball, basketball, etc.

I actually enjoy following multiple sports, it keeps me busy and not bored.

FIFA updated their world rankings:

Brazil 1
Spain 2
USA 12

We moved up two places and Mexico fell to 33rd. Ouch!

TonnageVT: Crewmannumber6: I think Americans who like socer know that it will always be a second tier sport, but that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. By the way it is possible to like soccer AND football. You won't asplode from it or anything

And hockey, baseball, basketball, etc.

I actually enjoy following multiple sports, it keeps me busy and not bored.

Agreed as well. I haven't followed MLB in two years because I've lost interest in it. But that's not going to make me go into a baseball thread and start hating on it. Even just to troll for trolling purposes.

That's like, what, 2.76 million after the conversion to Euro?

Crewmannumber6: I think Americans who like socer know that it will always be a second tier sport, but that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. By the way it is possible to like soccer AND football. You won't asplode from it or anything

A real man who drinks beer and eats cheesburgers could never be a fan of ninny grass-diving, soccer is for vegetarians and homos

\Football fan
\\Both of them

Dogfacedgod: This just in, 3.9 million insomniacs were cured and slept like a baby.


/see, soccer has its uses.

clearly you didnt watch the game, because it was far from boring.

PunchDrunkPanda:: I call shenanigans. Those are obviously American chicks on vacation. Real brazilians have that special sort of blatant dead-eyed stupidity that can only come from spending your whole life speking portugese.

/they do look good in bikinis
//but they're still stupid

vinnydoz007: clearly you didnt watch the game, because it was far from boring.

Don't feed the troll. I refer to The Divine Ponytail's post from once ago when people like him troll:

The Divine Ponytail: Soccer Hater,
You love these threads. This is your chance - you know you shouldn't care but yet you find yourself here, a fark subscriber, maybe even a Totalfarker, typing your pithy clever posts with a speed and conviction that makes you feel a proud sense of accomplishment.

Each post more scathing and less witty than the one before. You find yourself foaming at the mouth and breathing through your nose with a rage that you can not place...but wait...there it is, a memory...

high school...you are a closet fan, your physicality and timidity always kept you sequestered in the classroom behind a computer screen, but you hoped against all hope, secretly wishing you had the skill and stamina to hang with the soccer players, those guys moved through school with a nonchalance that drove you nuts, perfect hair, perfect physiques, top of their class, teachers loved them, girls loved them...these guys weren't soft and doughy like football players, their smiles weren't stained with skoal bandit like those baseball hicks;

no these guys made the grades, were scoring on the pitch, and scoring with the babes at school - ohh, how you imagined yourself running 90 minutes, slide tackling, cutting through the defense with grace and power, scoring the winning goal on a diving header in front of your hot girlfriend - then the bell rings, you're back.

You run to the bathroom, perspiring, one look at your pasty complication and your frail frame and you realize with bitter bitter anger that will never be you. But, alas, there is always fark, and a cadre of hackneyed soccer haters to which you can feel attached...so what if you're recycling each other's material, so what because finally...finally you belong.

TheSup3rN0va: A real man who drinks beer and eats cheesburgers could never be a fan of ninny grass-diving, soccer is for vegetarians and homos

I'd love to see one of the "soccer is the ghey played by homos" trolls tell that to Vinnie Jones.

Or speaking portugese, even.

GSD4Ever 2009-07-01 03:17:19 PM
FIFA updated their world rankings:

Brazil 1
Spain 2
USA 12

We moved up two places and Mexico fell to 33rd. Ouch!

Ay! Dios miOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

mynameismark
Bufu: See? Soccer, uh, FOOTBALL is clearly taking over American sports fans, just as it has been for the past 30 years.


Not likely. What is likely is that chumps like you will continue to come into threads to let everyone know how little you like the thread at hand.

Get more friends, stop being such a loser.

You stupid douche...I was just pointing out that the soccer nuts have been predicting that the sport would become huge in the US in just a few years...and they've been predicting that since Pele played for the NY Cosmos.

For the record, I used to be a rabid FC Bayern fan (lived in Munich during their glory days in the 70s), so just STFU, douche.

Lee's_Austin: I'd love to see one of the "soccer is the ghey played by homos" trolls tell that to Vinnie Jones.



Nobody calls Vinnie a homo!

/Err, wait.
//Yes, it's hot. Um, well, "hot" but not "hot".

bukketmaster: Real brazilians have that special sort of blatant dead-eyed stupidity that can only come from spending your whole life speaking portugese.

I got a good chuckle out of that. +1.

GSD4Ever: FIFA updated their world rankings:

Brazil 1
Spain 2
USA 12


If you ain't first, you're last.

Renart

Haha. Touche'. Pic aside, I still think it's a very bad idea.

Lee's_Austin: Renart

Haha. Touche'. Pic aside, I still think it's a very bad idea.

Agreed. Have you seen the episode of Extras with Vinnie Jones in it? It's hilarious, and much of the comedy revolves around a tough-talking actor coming face to face with Vinnie.

Renart: Lee's_Austin: Renart

Haha. Touche'. Pic aside, I still think it's a very bad idea.

Agreed. Have you seen the episode of Extras with Vinnie Jones in it? It's hilarious, and much of the comedy revolves around a tough-talking actor coming face to face with Vinnie.

I have only seen two episodes and they the first two from the first season. That sounds hilarious. I'm going to find it. Thanks for the heads-up!

And "You Think You Can Dance" will have 8-1/2 million viewers tonight.

Sickening, isn't it?

TonnageVT: vinnydoz007: clearly you didnt watch the game, because it was far from boring.

Don't feed the troll. I refer to The Divine Ponytail's post from once ago when people like him troll:

The Divine Ponytail: Soccer Hater,
You love these threads. This is your chance - you know you shouldn't care but yet you find yourself here, a fark subscriber, maybe even a Totalfarker, typing your pithy clever posts with a speed and conviction that makes you feel a proud sense of accomplishment.

Each post more scathing and less witty than the one before. You find yourself foaming at the mouth and breathing through your nose with a rage that you can not place...but wait...there it is, a memory...

high school...you are a closet fan, your physicality and timidity always kept you sequestered in the classroom behind a computer screen, but you hoped against all hope, secretly wishing you had the skill and stamina to hang with the soccer players, those guys moved through school with a nonchalance that drove you nuts, perfect hair, perfect physiques, top of their class, teachers loved them, girls loved them...these guys weren't soft and doughy like football players, their smiles weren't stained with skoal bandit like those baseball hicks;

no these guys made the grades, were scoring on the pitch, and scoring with the babes at school - ohh, how you imagined yourself running 90 minutes, slide tackling, cutting through the defense with grace and power, scoring the winning goal on a diving header in front of your hot girlfriend - then the bell rings, you're back.

You run to the bathroom, perspiring, one look at your pasty complication and your frail frame and you realize with bitter bitter anger that will never be you. But, alas, there is always fark, and a cadre of hackneyed soccer haters to which you can feel attached...so what if you're recycling each other's material, so what because finally...finally you belong.

Amusing, but I doubt that describes anyone's high school experience.

Honestly, at my school, the real hardcore, high-endurance athletes did crew (i.e. rowing) and cross-country. The slightly less hardcore but still high-endurance athletes did hockey and lacrosse. And yeah, the big fat guys who were strong but low-stamina played football. I'm not sure if my high school even had a soccer team. Maybe as an intramural or club sport.

thomps: tivo neglected to update its listings when espn moved the game from espn2 to espn, so when i got home i had 2 hours of the world series of poker on my tivo. i was really angry. then i tuned in just in time to see the build up and game winning goal. really angry.

Oh that shiat just killed me. I watched it live so it wasn't as bad as what happened to you, but just figuring out what channel the freaking game on was amazingly stupid. ESPN didn't have it on their own site listing at all for a while.

How hard is it to just update listings?

Lee's_Austin: TonnageVT: Crewmannumber6: I think Americans who like socer know that it will always be a second tier sport, but that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. By the way it is possible to like soccer AND football. You won't asplode from it or anything

And hockey, baseball, basketball, etc.

I actually enjoy following multiple sports, it keeps me busy and not bored.

Agreed as well. I haven't followed MLB in two years because I've lost interest in it. But that's not going to make me go into a baseball thread and start hating on it. Even just to troll for trolling purposes.

Excuse me. What site do you think you're on? Everything that you personally don't enjoy and consume must be destroyed!!!!!

Doc Daneeka:
Honestly, at my school, the real hardcore, high-endurance athletes did crew (i.e. rowing) and cross-country. The slightly less hardcore but still high-endurance athletes did hockey and lacrosse. And yeah, the big fat guys who were strong but low-stamina played football. I'm not sure if my high school even had a soccer team. Maybe as an intramural or club sport.

Crew and lacrosse in high school are pretty uncommon outside of really upper-crust areas and prep schools.

I think all of our soccer players were pretty fit but I don't think they were the creme de la creme.

+1

Would watch again

Crewmannumber6: I think Americans who like socer know that it will always be a second tier sport, but that doesn't stop us from enjoying it. By the way it is possible to like soccer AND football. You won't asplode from it or anything

Doesn't stop us from enjoying it? Are you mad? Second-tier popularity is the best thing to happen to U.S. soccer. Just enough money and popularity to keep a league alive, but not enough for the major networks to turn it all to shiat.

Do you want sky-high ticket prices so no one with a Fark-class salary can afford to see games on anything other than network TV? Do you want TV timeouts every five minutes? Do you want sideline reporters asking inane questions? Do you want on-screen graphics and "swoosh" sound effects completely obscuring what's going on in the field? Do you want slow-motion instant replay from 20 different angles and talking head analysis drawing on the screen while play is still going on? Do you want the networks to cut away from the action when only 5 minutes are left in the game to show the opening minutes of a game between big market teams? Do you want the networks and league colluding to change the rules so the dumbest casual fans get the high-scoring games they want?

Be very careful what you wish for. I don't want soccer to ever catch the attention of U.S. TV networks.

GSD4Ever: FIFA updated their world rankings:

Brazil 1
Spain 2
USA 12

We moved up two places and Mexico fell to 33rd. Ouch!

To be fair, its hard to rise in rankings when no one wants to play you due to swine flu.

duncangonuts: Excuse me. What site do you think you're on? Everything that you personally don't enjoy and consume must be destroyed!!!!!

QFT.

Lee's_Austin: I'm fairly certain I saw a snip-it of a press conference where the the president of FIFA said they were staying since it wasn't their right (or something) to ban them as they're a part of African culture.

How is a $2 plastic horn "culture?"

If they want to allow them during matches played by South Africa, that's fine, but if I have to listen to that crap for three weeks straight, there are going to be murders.

Did Tony Kornheiser traveled by boat?

Yanks_RSJ: Lee's_Austin: I'm fairly certain I saw a snip-it of a press conference where the the president of FIFA said they were staying since it wasn't their right (or something) to ban them as they're a part of African culture.

How is a $2 plastic horn "culture?"

If they want to allow them during matches played by South Africa, that's fine, but if I have to listen to that crap for three weeks straight, there are going to be murders.

Haha. Yeah, I have no idea either. I mean good on them for the cultural respect, but I wonder how many viewers will be lost because of it.

Does anyone have video of Brazil's goalie (is it Julio Cesar?) doing the motorboat mouth thing? I think it was in the second half, right after some kind of blown play by Brazil, and a slow-mo replay showed him going "PHBHBHBHBHHBHBBHBHHBHHBH". I'm really upset that I didn't tivo it for that clip alone.