Spain wins World Cup!

[Book Lover]

That wasn't the best-played game today, but I was excited! I also hope this year's World Cup broadcast helps to legitimize the game here in the US as something other than what your kids play and then grow out of.

[Book Lover]

1. Good gravy, someone unrecc'd this?

You are pathetic.

[malaise]

3. Fugg the unrecc'r

Very classy of the Butch to form a guard of honor as the Spanish team took to the field to celebrate - Spanish colors for the fireworks - lovely!! Better to lose the first match than your last one.

[taterguy]

35. Fugg me? Yes, I was the unreccer. I just outed myself

I tried
I really tried
to get interested.

But nothing happened,

And then some totally bogus call ruined it for the team I was rooting for.

Fuck soccer.

[Book Lover]

40. Well, thanks for the explanation anyway (nm)

[Bill McBlueState]

22. stop whining

Most threads probably get one or more unrecs.

[Book Lover]

25. What great advice

And so well spoken, too. Sir, thank you.

[KamaAina]

29. Well, we do have Dutch people here, you know

it wasn't me, I swear! (one-sixteenth Dutch here)

[SunnySong]

42. I'm sorry i reccommend fell in the middle of the field writhing in pain so I assumed I had hit it.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. And the octopus scores again!

[Jennicut]

4. He needs a good reward for all his predictions coming true.

[LisaL]

5. If he could bet money, he'd be one rich octopus by now.

[fascisthunter]

6. pretty fishy if you ask me

[Cleita]

23. Maybe it isn't Paul, but who is the human who is

predicting this if the whole World Cup isn't fixed?

[fascisthunter]

26. good point

I'm not gonna say it's fixed but it does raise many doubts.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. It was an UGGLY game...

but good for Spain...

And the game is getting more and more legitimacy...

You see kids who played it (hubby) love to watch it as adults. And more and more of those kids are growing to do such.

It is not just us furiegners who've come to the US... doing it with kids in the ciudades perdidas (the stones won that day... I did not have tennis shoes no way I was going to play with steel toe boots)... but honest to goodness kids who grew up here.

[malaise]

10. Getting more and more legitimacy in the US

it's legitimate everywhere else on the planet.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. That's what we are talking about

that soccer game with those kids, it came from all of us in public safety getting real tired of the small stuff juvvies do. So we got some two by fours, some digging equipment, and I bought a few soccer balls. We cleared a field and set a dirt field for the kids.

You will not be too shocked to learn that our crime wave went down to nothing... and the eyes of those kids when they saw the balls... but they insisted we play with them. So I removed my boots...

that is something that kids here in the US would never get, at least not in the large cities.

[Book Lover]

14. Your point about things taking time is well made (nm)

[SunnySong]

44. It's like Brazil becoming a first world nation people predict it every four years and it never comes

to pass. I have been hearing this about soccer since the mid seventies...

[nadinbrzezinski]

45. Well since Brazil is becoming a regional power

and soccer is getting more and more adepts in the US... perhaps by 2018 or 2022, when we should get the cup, those of us who like it... will enjoy it. For the moment LOOKING FORWARDS to Brazil in four years...

And you have a good day...

Now lets see what were the numbers for people watching the game on ABC\Univision. I am willing to bet it was highest number ever.

[SunnySong]

55. I like soccer (excuse me football) and greatly enjoy the world cup most years.

Unfortunately this was a sub-par World Cup. Partially due to a second rate host and partially due to bad officiating across the board.

That said I have been around for every soccer boomlet from Pele to Hamm and it simply hasn't taken hold here.

I seriously doubt that this sub-par presentation will sway many people... (if anything it may have turned off potential fans)

[fascisthunter]

8. Congrats Spain!

You played the better game.

[Scurrilous]

9. ¡Felicidades!

:thumbsup:

[Cetacea]

11. Quick! Get them into a bullring!

Boycott Spain.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. And a good day to you too, once again

[tabatha]

15. Best response.

[Karenina]

18. Cetacea, bitte...

:eyes:

[Cetacea]

20. Aw, shucks. YW n/t

[K8-EEE]

16. Hate soccer, love Spain so...

Bravo! Viva Espana!

[rocktivity]

17. The vuvuzelas didn't help

I think it drove away a lot of potential first-time viewers.

Also, congrats to Spain for defying the Nike curse!

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Karenina]

19. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[n2doc]

21. Offsides

Appropriate win for an entire Cup played with lousy reffing.

[malaise]

24. Andres Iniesta was not offside

Watch the goal again.

[Goblinmonger]

27. Nope.

He held back for the pass.

[KamaAina]

30. Not even close.

They've actually come up with a decent way to view offside (or not) on a replay: shading the offside part of the pitch in a darker green. And Iniesta wasn't anywhere near it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. Iniesta was ON SIDE

that said, yes, some of the reffing was down right awful. And even today there were a few bad calls... the goal was not.

[fishwax]

28. we're making paella for dinner in honor of Spain's victory

Way to go Spain :toast:

[AsahinaKimi]

31. Congrats to Spain ..great game

I really enjoyed this game, I know some here didn't. I may even watch a few more
MLS games now... (Go Earthquakes!)

[malaise]

32. You need a victory photo

[AsahinaKimi]

34. Tried to find some on google..

But they were not posted yet. Nice shot though!

[Odin2005]

33. That game was major dirty.

Lotta fouls.

[EFerrari]

37. I've never seen a game that dirty.

:wow:

[kdmorris]

36. I'm sure there's no point to saying this

I doubt you will listen and usually, what I get is "you can't tell me what to do". In the 7 years I've been at DU, only one person has ever said "damn, sorry about that. I got excited" (and then she never did it again).

But I'll give it a shot, anyway.

Out of common courtesy, you should not post spoilers in thread titles. Rather than "Spain wins World Cup!", you could have gone with "World Cup Final (spoiler)"... then, we all had the CHOICE of actually clicking on the link and discussing it.

Doing it this way, you removed the choice from anyone who may have had to TIVO this to watch it later. Yes, it's preferable to watch the game live, but sometimes, circumstances force us to watch it after it's already been played.

You took away my husband's choice. After fixing my car (I really need it tomorrow), he came in to take a short break before we watched the game. Now, you would think that coming to DU would be safe, but it never is.

Posting the title with the Spoiler alert would allow those who got to watch the game live to participate in the discussion and those who didn't get a chance to watch it live to skip that thread.

That being said, I have watched the game already, but I didn't get to watch it with my husband, as he already knew who won. There are real consequences to your actions. I hope you will take this suggestion the next time you post about television events that others may not have watched yet.

[BuddhaGirl]

38. you know, in the past I learned the hard way

but now, if I *REALLY* don't want to know the results of some game, I stay *OFF* the internet. It's best to assume that you will see what you don't want to see.

It's simple - just don't take any chances if it's that important.

[Book Lover]

39. I do apologize. I hadn't given spoiling a moment's thought

and I really do apologize for my thoughtlessness.

However.

I assert that it is not realistic to come to a discussion/news site and expect to be able to neither hear nor see who has won the World Cup. Why on earth would "coming to DU...be safe"? And if he refuses to watch an exciting, dirty, important match just because he knows the outcome, he's the one missing out.

[kdmorris]

51. He watched it, but you must realize, it's really not the same

Since he knew that Spain won. Luckily, he didn't know the score or the fact that Spain won in overtime, so he was able to enjoy most of it.

I really did try to be as nice as possible about this, so I appreciate you not biting my head off. I KNOW people get caught up in the excitement of something happening. But it should be realistic to be able to come to a board that is theoretically about politics and not read the results of a sporting event. At one of the soccer boards he "hangs out at", spoilers are so frowned upon that he could have gone to that site and not found out the results. That's the irony of the whole thing.

And I also knew what the response would be (though you were much nicer about it than most people are) :)

I have to fly out to Chicago today, so this will probably be the last thing I have to say on this. Thanks for taking the time to read and respond to my post.

[Withywindle]

48. Why would you think ANY site on the internet would be safe?

According to the ESPN talking heads, 1 in 4 people in the world watched the match. That's almost 2 billion people. They're all going to have opinions about it and will blog them immediately wherever they like.

My email programs (earthlink and google) both have major world news headlines on their log-in page before you go to your inbox. Winner of the WC is definitely major world news. Even the American network 5 o'clock news runs with it as a lede. You posted your OP several hours after the game. Where in the hell online do you think you could go and stay spoiler-free? Even my SF-geek blogroll and my mostly-music-nerdy Facebook was full of WC posts.

[kdmorris]

50. I posted it several hours after the game

because I was WATCHING the game. My husband was the one that saw the spoiler.

[redqueen]

43. The first half wasn't great but I enjoyed Spain's attacks in the second.

It was only a matter of time, the better side won and they were much, much better.

The Holland team should get rid of the thugs... disgusting behavior.

[Greyhound]

46. FUCK YOU! JUST FUCK YOU VERY MUCH SIDEWAYS! PUT THE WINNER IN THE SUBJECT LINE

IN G-FUCKING-D!

[Book Lover]

47. See post #39, please

I would also like to suggest that you widen your vocabulary. "Fuck you" is *so* ninth grade.

[Withywindle]

49. You posted this at 1:54 AM on Monday? Really?

I do so hope you're snarking. Whatever the time zone is wherever you're at, the game's been over for many, many hours.

When does the statute of spoiler limitations expire? 2014? (IN BRASIL FUCK YEAH!)


In other news: Caesar dies, Frodo lives, Jesus does both.

[Greyhound]

53. Firstly it was 11:54 here and secondly WTF difference does that make?

Some of us are too busy trying to prevent medical bankruptcy as well as keeping our loved ones alive and can't just stop when it's convenient.

There is little enough joy to be had and, on a an actual sports board, this will get you banned as well as the post deleted.

Oh well, they play another one in four years, maybe I will be allowed to enjoy that one...
:grr:

[Withywindle]

54. I'm sorry, I didn't realize your situation.

And I'm sorry you were spoiled. But really, there isn't anywhere on the internet that you can count on to be safe from spoilers for major sports events, blockbuster movie plots, etcetera.

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