Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts

26 January 2009

For Football Fans - NSFW

As a Giant fan, I can say that I’m a bit disappointed with how this season ended for Big Blue. That feeling lasted about five minutes, immediately followed by reflecting happily on last year’s surprise Super Bowl triumph…

And now, I can even point to the disappointing end to the season as a positive, as it has provided me this video.

To reiterate, this is Not Safe For Work.

09 June 2008

To Follow Up...

About ten minutes after I posted my bit about soccer last night, they announced the attendance for the USA-Argentinian at the Meadowlands last night - 78,000+!
So I suppose my concern is really that I don't have enough friends who enjoy soccer.

Watching Italy-Netherlands Euro match now. The Dutch are up 3-0 and just keep attacking. The Italians are still threatening because, as the commentators put it, "The Dutch just don't play defense. It's not in their genetics." God, I love the Dutch side, streaming down the pitch in their bright orange unis...

08 June 2008

It's not the worst thing in the world.

But I think it's a shame that more people in America don't appreciate soccer.
I had more to say here, but I think that any mention of the sheer beauty of the game (the speed, the strategy, the incredible fitness of the athletes) would make me sound like a sports elitist. And the last thing I need is for there to be one more thing that people think I'm stuck up about.