Scholarship table
+1. Makes hockey and soccer results much more random (crapshoot) than other sports. Glad you've seen the light.
Three of the top five ranked teams in the world (Germany #2, Brazil #3, Argentina #5) made it to the semifinals. Hardly random....
I would not want to be a member of that Brazilian team for a while. I don't know if the fans tonight are going to be angrier at their side for packing it in or the Germans for running roughshod, but I think medium and long term, the anger will be turned inward.
Could it be that emotions were so high that they just couldn't focus? They never organized in the back and were totally unable to regroup after the two goals.
Germany just scored again.
Seattle-Denver Super Bowl?
There is literally nothing in the history of US sports that can compare to what happened. No singular sport means enough to our country to have any serious comparison to what Brazil and their soccer team went through today. It's really incredible.
It is major. Perhaps if the dream team would have lost in basketball, but too many people in the states don't give a shyte about basketball. It's not in our fabric.A few fun conspiracy theories today, so I went to the extreme with mine. Hey, if you're going to have a conspiracy theory, go big.My Conspiracy theory:The Brazilians knew they were cooked a few games ago as they have not played particularly well the entire tournament. With the latest injury knocking Neymar out and red card situation putting their captain on the bench, they had a very small chance to win. That said, they could have played a tough enough game and packed it in defensively to keep it close. If they were to lose, however, by one in a close game that some would blame on the refs or Germany, mass rioting in Brazil was possible. The Brazilian gov't was already under immense pressure because of the amount of money spent to put this party on when a good chunk of their population is in poverty and residents that used to live near these stadiums put in tent cities when rents went up so much they could no longer afford to live there, well a win was an absolute must. Anything that was close would bring the population to a boil.So the Brazilian gov't paid off the players to make it a total destruction, one that left mouths agape, so beyond explanation to numb the populace. If they lose by a ton, no one can blame the refs or some other action, the anger turns to sorrow and people drinking themselves silly and sleeping it off.Go big I say.
not even the 1972 US vs. USSR mens Olympic Bball?
This makes me laugh really, really hardhttp://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/pornhub-pleads-users-to-stop-uploading-videos-of-brazil-getting-fked-by-germany-in-the-world-cup-9594287.html
I really hate the penalty kick tie-break in elimination games. Can they please just play a sudden death period instead?
The problem is that when you are going on to two hours, no one is trying to score. If you watched the extra time of that game, it was brutal. Argentina had a couple decent chances and that's about it.I think soccer would benefit if it had more extensive substitutions. But that's just an outsider commenting on a sport that he doesn't understand all that much.