'Destiny'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It really just seemed like Ghana was everywhere and the US just couldn't get it in the goal.
They were! They had the best speed/agility/ball-handling (heh)/passing and general Being Everywhere I've seen in any of the games I've seen (although that's far from all of them). And their keeper is just beast. Damn.
Also, what ita said about sports. Damn, sports, for all the @@, you make me cry in all the good ways.
Sports gives me a chance to be passionate and silly and biased and ridiculous and nuts and hard-headed without any real-life ramifications. It's where I can lose myself and find myself.
I used to play , and I even coached 5 yr olds . I had forgotten how tired you are at the end of a soccer game
And their keeper is just beast.
He was amazing
Well, with the five Francophone teams down, and now the US, I guess I'm going back to my old sweethearts from '98, the Netherlands.
When I objectively think about sports, it's...well, they're the dumbest thing ever. Why do you keep hitting that tiny ball back over that net? But then you see the raw emotion of the Ghanaian team as they knock each other over in celebration, and I think--anything that lights people up like that and isn't maiming other people--is good, no? And even the sadness and desperation on the US side--it was well battled for.
Joe said something to me today about "I didn't know you liked soccer?" And I don't exactly, but I love the World Cup, just like I love the Olympics, and so on. Sort of like java said, I can get all into it, feel some empathy for the winners/losers, and then go on with my day.
I have a lot of clients from Ghana and so I'm happy for them, also.
eta: I'll be rooting for Ghana because they are now the underdogs, I think. But also Brazil because, despite being such a huge team and sort of like rooting for the Yankees or the Cowboys, they love their futebol like no one else I have ever seen.
One of the reasons I'm rooting for the Netherlands is that they have been so solid for so long without winning the main event.
Sort of like java said, I can get all into it, feel some empathy for the winners/losers, and then go on with my day.
Don't get me wrong. When the Giants lost to the Angels in 2002 WS, I did not get over it for months. I was in despair for a good long while. But, mostly, when it comes to sports, it has no bearing (for me) on real life. But the Giants are another story altogether.
And, as a rule, if I have no other allegiances, I'm always rooting for the underdog.