Topic: WE LIKE SPORTS (Read 593453 times)

jwhouk · « **Reply #3400 on:** 07 Jul 2014, 13:52 »

I think it all depends on whether the Colombian drug lords had money on Brazil winning the Cup or not.

ChaoSera · « **Reply #3401 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 13:55 »

So, is anybody watching the game Germany vs. Brazil? Because it's nothing short of hilarious.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3402 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:00 »

I'm watching the Twitter response to the Germany v Brazil game, and I have garnered that impression!

pwhodges · « **Reply #3403 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:03 »

Four goals in six minutes, to take it to 5-0 at only 30mins! Even I find that pretty amazing.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #3404 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:33 »

Just to continue being a drama queen: That stadium will burn to the ground tonight!

pwhodges · « **Reply #3405 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:37 »

Brazil were last beaten 6-0 by Uruguay in 1920; but now it's 7-0...

idontunderstand · « **Reply #3406 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:37 »

7!!!!

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #3407 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:46 »

Germans left pitch 'to give Brazil a chance', says Lahm

pwhodges · « **Reply #3408 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:49 »

7-1 in the last minute; I suppose that salvages a teeny bit of pride for them.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3409 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:52 »

Wow. Even I know that was a big deal.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #3410 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:53 »

Just remembered Brazil still has to play one more goddamn match after this.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3411 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 14:53 »

Are they allowed to just not turn up?

hedgie · « **Reply #3412 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 15:00 »

Quote from: ChaoSera on 08 Jul 2014, 13:55

So, is anybody watching the game Germany vs. Brazil? Because it's nothing short of hilarious.

Sure, in the same sense that you can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter". When Brazilian fans started cheering the Germans, you knew it was a disaster.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3413 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 15:20 »

Quite a lot of people crying or praying or both at the end there. Poor curly-haired Brazilian football boys.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3414 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 15:38 »

Dàaaaaaaamn

That was brutal

ev4n · « **Reply #3415 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 15:47 »

Yes, a lot of tears in the stands.

Patrick · « **Reply #3416 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 16:08 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 08 Jul 2014, 14:53

Are they allowed to just not turn up?

that's exactly what happened today.

hedgie · « **Reply #3417 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 16:15 »

Pretty much. I was only expecting Germany to win 2-0 or 2-1 or something like that.

Patrick · « **Reply #3418 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 16:59 »

lololol

AND THAT WASN'T EVEN IT

jwhouk · « **Reply #3419 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 17:27 »

I think some expected that Brazil was going to have a tough time with the Germans without their key players, but 7-1?

That is the equivalent of a 46-7 drubbing in an NFL playoff game. Or a 120-54 laugher in basketball.

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #3420 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 17:36 »

A few years ago Port Adelaide lost the AFL Grand Final by over 110 points. Now that's a drubbing.

Patrick · « **Reply #3421 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 18:10 »

it was almost exactly as bad as the Super Bowl this year, which was 43-8.

Patrick · « **Reply #3422 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 18:24 »

rawrrrr nom nom nom nom

jwhouk · « **Reply #3423 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 18:36 »

Calling it right now: Germany takes the title, regardless of their opponent.

hedgie · « **Reply #3424 on:** 08 Jul 2014, 18:43 »

Agreed. I've been sure that Germany was going to take the whole thing from game 1.

ev4n · « **Reply #3425 on:** 09 Jul 2014, 06:44 »

Sounds like the tour de france is turning into a bit of a disaster.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3426 on:** 09 Jul 2014, 10:35 »

Certainly for GB riders. Has the potential to make it a bit more exciting though. In a three way fight between Nibali, Contador and Froome, the risk would be that the first two would go head to head. Froome has both of them pegged when it comes to the TT so the other two would have had to try and manoeuvre the other into being stranded on the other side of him. Froome then left unchecked would have had his pick of the tactical moments.

Nibali's got my vote but this could come down to the wire.

hedgie · « **Reply #3427 on:** 09 Jul 2014, 15:46 »

Given how dismal that match was, I expect that the Germans will face no difficulties in the final.

Patrick · « **Reply #3428 on:** 09 Jul 2014, 19:38 »

damn I wish I could've seen it, even in spite of it ending in PKs. I'd like to have a better bearing on how each team looked.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3429 on:** 09 Jul 2014, 23:15 »

Just seen pictures from yesterdays Tour stage. I've seen cleamer riders at the end of a cyclocross race. Looking forward to the catch up, racing on pave is awesome.

Patrick · « **Reply #3430 on:** 13 Jul 2014, 16:19 »

DEUTSCHLAND WELTMEISTER! Götze with the game winner in 2OT. Beautiful goal, caught it on his chest and crossed it into the far side of the net. The kind of thing dreams are made of.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3431 on:** 13 Jul 2014, 23:11 »

Such an amazing weekend of racing. Blel Kadri timing everything brilliantly, Simon Yates properly getting in the mix on the breakaway and a good GC sort out at the end of the day on Saturday. Sunday was an awesome show of power by Tony Martin dishing out 2.45 on everyone else and France getting to wear the Yellow Jersey on Bastille Day.

Football fans should also note the brilliance of Tony Martin as apparently he won the World Cup.

hedgie · « **Reply #3432 on:** 14 Jul 2014, 04:49 »

Quote from: Patrick on 13 Jul 2014, 16:19

DEUTSCHLAND WELTMEISTER! Götze with the game winner in 2OT. Beautiful goal, caught it on his chest and crossed it into the far side of the net. The kind of thing dreams are made of.

There is a sick part of me who reads that as Goatse scoring the winning goal.

ev4n · « **Reply #3433 on:** 14 Jul 2014, 06:45 »

Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 13 Jul 2014, 23:11

Such an amazing weekend of racing. Blel Kadri timing everything brilliantly, Simon Yates properly getting in the mix on the breakaway and a good GC sort out at the end of the day on Saturday. Sunday was an awesome show of power by Tony Martin dishing out 2.45 on everyone else and France getting to wear the Yellow Jersey on Bastille Day.

Football fans should also note the brilliance of Tony Martin as apparently he won the World Cup.

Last year we had my mother in law living with us, and she paid for cable so that we could watch the Tour de France.

This year, it's the only thing I've missed from TV so far.

Patrick · « **Reply #3434 on:** 15 Jul 2014, 01:22 »

Quote from: hedgie on 14 Jul 2014, 04:49

Quote from: Patrick on 13 Jul 2014, 16:19
DEUTSCHLAND WELTMEISTER! Götze with the game winner in 2OT. Beautiful goal, caught it on his chest and crossed it into the far side of the net. The kind of thing dreams are made of.

There is a sick part of me who reads that as Goatse scoring the winning goal.

when my bandmates had me over a while back, they were playing FIFA 14 as Bayern, and any time Matt or Paul gained a fast break with him, we would all cheer, "STRETCH IT, GOATSE, STRETCH IIIIIT"

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3435 on:** 16 Jul 2014, 13:37 »

ev4n · « **Reply #3436 on:** 17 Jul 2014, 06:23 »

Well, I can't say I'm remotely surprised.

http://blogs.canoe.ca/slam/hockey/ex-nhl-ref-shares-story-about-eric-lindros-being-a-huge-jerk/

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I was working an afternoon Philadelphia-New Jersey game at the Spectrum; the back end of a home-and-home. The Devils won the previous game, 6-4, in a game refereed by Mark Faucette. The game got chippy late in the third period, with about 40 penalty minutes being handed out in the final five minutes, including roughing penalties to Lindros and Scott Stevens in the waning seconds of the game.

The start of the game at the Spectrum was delayed several minutes. I had to wait for the red light on the scorer’s table to indicate that the broadcast had returned from a commercial and it was OK to drop the opening faceoff.

During the delay, I made small talk with several of the Devils and Flyers on the ice. I said hello to Mark Recchi and talked to Bernie Nicholls. I then tried to greet the 19-year-old rookie Lindros.

“Hey, Eric. How are things going? How’s your dad?” I asked.

The response: “(Bleep) you. Just drop the (bleeping) puck already.”

Lindros was apparently in a bad mood because he’d recently missed 12 games with a knee injury, the team was in a losing skid, and he’d had a tough game in New Jersey. This game was also played about a week after Lindros had to go to court in Toronto after the Koo Koo Bananas incident. You know what? Those were his problems, not mine. But we were about to have a mutual problem.

Right off the opening faceoff, Lindros bulled forward and drilled Nicholls under the chin with his stick. I ditched Lindros on a high-sticking penalty.

Before the game, I had brought a tube filled with posters to Flyers’ equipment manager Jim “Turk” Evers. The posters, which depicted Recchi and Lindros, were to be autographed and then donated to a charity auction. I had done a similar thing in other cities, such as a Cam Neely and Ray Bourque poster in Boston, and a Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr in Pittsburgh.

After the game, I want to Turk to collect the poster tube.

“Stewy, you’re not going to like this,” Evers said. “I don’t have them.”

“What do you mean you don’t have them?” I asked.

“Well, Rex signed the posters but when Eric found out they were for you, he tore every one of them up. I’m sorry about that.”

I never spoke to Eric Lindros again.

One year, much later in his career when he was with the Rangers, I ended up getting him on eight minor penalties that season. I caught some heat for it from John Davidson on the Rangers’ broadcasts, but the truth of the matter was this: I did NOT go out of my way to “invent” penalties on Lindros — or any player — but I wasn’t going to give that guy a break on anything borderline that I might have let slide with a player who had gained acceptability with me.

Patrick · « **Reply #3437 on:** 17 Jul 2014, 22:03 »

I tend to agree with some of the comments on the article, particularly this one:

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stewart then says he treated him differently while as an official. i didnt know players needed personal acceptance with officials to be treated the same way.

I know hockey's one of the chummiest sports around, and also has arguably the most heated rivalries of any sport. But I think professionalism should prevail among the officials. This article really sheds new light on some of the bullshit calls throughout every series of the Stanley Cup playoffs this year. Apparently the officials like to play favorites just as much as I suspected, and this isn't just the butthurt Sharks fan in me talking (I have no particular affection for Lindros but I also never saw him play).

ev4n · « **Reply #3438 on:** 18 Jul 2014, 09:27 »

Yup, it showed the scummy side of refereeing as well as the scummy side of Lindros. Neither surprised me.

The NHL playoffs are pretty much the worst thing in sports for officiating, but the league WANTS it that way. It's like the number 1 reason that I watch WAY less hockey than I did growing up.

jwhouk · « **Reply #3439 on:** 18 Jul 2014, 12:01 »

Good teams overcome bad officiating.

ev4n · « **Reply #3440 on:** 18 Jul 2014, 17:47 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 18 Jul 2014, 12:01

Good teams overcome bad officiating.

Calciopoli

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #3441 on:** 18 Jul 2014, 18:27 »

Tim Donaghy

jwhouk · « **Reply #3442 on:** 18 Jul 2014, 19:49 »

Donaghy could be dealt with in one specific and distinct motion from the bench.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #3443 on:** 05 Aug 2014, 20:29 »

The San Antonio Spurs have made news by hiring a female coach. Has everyone forgotten when the New York Knicks hired Whoopi Goldberg to be their head coach?

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3444 on:** 06 Aug 2014, 10:48 »

So jumping back to the now legendary Brazil v. Germany world cup match, I don't think Germany's steamrolled through a country like that since 1939...

Patrick · « **Reply #3445 on:** 06 Aug 2014, 12:08 »

The Giants vs. Mets game on Saturday was incredible to watch until the 7th, when the Giants pitcher's perfect game was tarnished by one single step in the wrong direction on a fly ball to left, and the whole thing fell completely to shit.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3446 on:** 21 Aug 2014, 10:53 »

Professional sports is just how rich people play Magic: The Gathering.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-sports-are-worst-thing-ever-unbiased-opinion_p2/#ixzz3AtJLJpEC

Patrick · « **Reply #3447 on:** 01 Sep 2014, 12:13 »

38 days til hockey season, fellas. What are you doing to curb your excitement?

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ev4n · « **Reply #3448 on:** 02 Sep 2014, 06:09 »

Leafs are a mess, and the Sens are rebuilding. Ergo, not much.

Patrick · « **Reply #3449 on:** 03 Sep 2014, 19:31 »

I'm lynching effigies of Doug Wilson and being a closet Athletics fan.

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