Well it looks like the World Cup is over, it must be, there are markedly fewer cars around sporting German flags. Someone somewhere must be making a quilt.
As you have probably gussed, I am not a great football fan.
I did start to watch the Germany Italy match, but after 10 minutes of nothing really happening, I grew bored and went back to NASA TV and watched the shuttle perform its first orbital correction.
What I did see though was that a new rule has been added to the game since I played it in school. I haven’t seen the wording yet, but it must be something like:
“If you are tackled and loose the ball, throw yourself to the ground in the most spectacular way you can manage.” It seems that if the fall is spectacular enough, the referee will give you the ball back.
I was very impressed with some of the falls, being really convinced that the player had at least a complex fracture of the fibula, only to see the player get up totally unhurt. Really amazing….. This really must be suggested as an Olympic discipline. Points could be awarded for air time, number of ground rolls, and how convincing the expression of pain was…
So the World Cup? As far as I can tell the situation is a follows
- England (My home country) Out…
- Germany (My country of residence) Out…
- Portugal (Age old allies…) Out…
That leaves me with the choice of France or Italy to support in the final.
mmmm Maybe NASA can launch something on Sunday?
Yes indeed!! Although, with the stunts and whatnot, now you are talking American Football, a sport that is truly all for show. Would you believe how hard it is over here in Yankee-land to even watch a decent game of football(soccer)? I mean the good games are broadcast at 7am. When decent people are working and non-decent people are sleeping. And mothers frown when drinking beer that early in the morning, anyway. I must admit, due to the circumstances, I haven’t watched very many games from the world cup this year, since they are broadcast at an odd time, and the two channels that show them during the week are the lesser watched sports channel, that most people don’t get, and the Mexican Station, which of course has commentary in spanish. But now that Germany is out, I’ve kind of lost interest, also. Maybe I’ll post on my blog about American sports. Seems to be a good topic! See ya, later.
Comment by Justin — July 8, 2006 @ 7:55 am
Yes indeed the glory of international sports, breaking down cultural barriers until one teammate insults anothers’ mother and sister and receives a head butt. Good fun. The big three events we had here in America were: Wimbleton, the World Cup and last but certainly not least the World Championship of Paintball. I’m sure the paintball competion was big in Germany as well, no need to check on NASA with such big events going on. Cheers!
Comment by Sandy — July 13, 2006 @ 12:00 am