World Cup 2010

[lukethedrifter]

I can't wrap my head around the "match for third place." I assume there's some prize money involved?

The NFL did it throughout the 60s. NCAA basketball until '81. NCAA football has it now. It's called the Fiesta Rose Orange Bowl. All the Olympic team sports have one.

[ghostrunner]

I can't wrap my head around the "match for third place." I assume there's some prize money involved?

The NFL did it throughout the 60s. NCAA basketball until '81. NCAA football has it now. It's called the Fiesta Rose Orange Bowl. All the Olympic team sports have one.

Those seems like different situations. The Olympics offers 3 medals, and that tradition comes from individual sports where people compete on the same day or all at once. I don't think the Orange Bowl or any bowl can be considered a place or final ranking. It's not part of a tournament and the winner actually gets more of a tangible reward than the loser of the Rose Bowl. I completely understand why it would have been dropped in the first two examples.

[Tambourine Man]

There's still room on the 2014 bandwagon. Uruguay played a hell of a game. Plus, they've got that guy that looks like the actor from "Wings" who can strike quite nicely.

[SHOW]

Speaking of this, when did the guy from Megadeath start playing for Spain?

[SHOW]

That, my friend, is one devastatingly handsome headbanger. He's likely to unleash a symphony of destruction on the Dutch today.

I'm still laughing at luke's Monty Python post...

[greenback44]

Holy cow, that should've been a red card at the half hour mark. This has been an ugly, ugly final. I go through stretches where I wonder why I don't follow soccer more, and then I remember after seeing games like this.

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[jim]

Holy cow, that should've been a red card at the half hour mark. This has been an ugly, ugly final. I go through stretches where I wonder why I don't follow soccer more, and then I remember after seeing games like this.

Tsk tsk tsk...

[SHOW]

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Went to have lunch with son #1 today and we were walking down by the lake and Soldier Field in Chicago and saw tons of people leaving wearing soccer jerseys - mostly Spain ... I'm guessing they showed it on the jumbotron?

[stlouie_lipp]

I was in Paris when the 2002 Cup final was played. The streets were filled with people wearing Germany and Brazil jersey, waving flags, etc. When the game was over, the street was literally (not a word I use often) shut down and packed with Brazil revelers. French police were lining the street dressed in riot gear to make sure things didn't get out of hand, which they didn't. It was like this video, but 100x more crazy, maybe because it was in the middle of the afternoon. It was one of the coolest events I've ever witnessed in my life and I was glad I experienced it.

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[The Third Man]

I've always wondered how awesome it would be to be in a country as they won the World Cup. I was in Lawrence when KU won the title in 2008 and that's some of the most fun I've ever had - and that was "only" 80,000 people or so celebrating on Mass Street. Experiencing that on a country-wide scale would be pretty amazing.

[Tambourine Man]

[SHOW]

Tsk tsk tsk...

Yo, I'm deeming this thread open for soccer hate. I've determined that GRB has exactly 3 people that like soccer.

God, it would've been nice to see Spain try in the first 60 minutes. No [expletive] wonder people can't get into it.

[MrSaigon]

Smell the tulips, [expletive]!