Football World Cup 2014

[Draylor]

No football today.
No football tomorrow.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

[CorNokZ]

After glorious weeks of football every night, I predict an evening of Leonardo Dicaprio movies...

 

[DaGaffer]

After glorious weeks of football every night, I predict an evening of Leonardo Dicaprio movies...

So long as its Blood Diamond, Inception and The Wolf Of Wall Street, its all good

 

[CorNokZ]

So long as its Blood Diamond, Inception and The Wolf Of Wall Street, its all good

Inception.. Been awhile since I've seen that. Maybe shutter Island too?

 

[Billargh]

So long as its Blood Diamond, Inception and The Wolf Of Wall Street, its all good

I'm considering The Beach. I think it's cause I've been playing a lot of FFX recently and Tidus reminds me of him... the annoying cunt that he is.

 

[Vae]

So long as its Blood Diamond, Inception and The Wolf Of Wall Street, its all good

Watched Blood Diamond the other day and discussed with the wife how good an actor he is. Looking through his resume there's a surprising number of good films on there in which he acts very well. Once he steered away from the Titanic/Romeo and Juliet type ones the rest are rather good (Departed, Shutter Island, Gangs of New York, Catch me if you can etc). His role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape is also very good.

 

[Ch3tan]

I don't think he's made more than a couple of bad films. Very good script choices and must have a great agent.

 

[CorNokZ]

So what is everyone up to tonight? We ended up shopping on a French website. Yay..

 

[Shagrat]

I'm playing Diablo 3

 

[CorNokZ]

I'm playing Diablo 3

Phew.. Good to hear that someone is worse off than me

 

[Calaen]

I had s barbecue

 

[Billargh]

Car hunting.

 

[megadave]

I had a thai take away

 

[miri]

I watched Masterchef and played Dota. Was alright.

 

[Turamber]

I spent the evening looking for wedding reception venues and choosing music for the same. I also spent the evening avoiding looking at my credit card statements, nasty. Wedding with a silent £.

 

[Corran]

I spent the evening looking for wedding reception venues and choosing music for the same. I also spent the evening avoiding looking at my credit card statements, nasty. Wedding with a silent £.

Hahahaha, picking music is a fucking bitch.

If you dont want the normal bollocks people pick, and instead go with something more your style you have a lot of listening to do. Especially for the first dance!!!
Soooooo many songs had to be discarded when me and the wife were picking for ours, mainly because the music either had lyrics , or was related to, something depressing (Murder, war, violence, breakups etc ).

Ended up using Within Temptation - All I Need.

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Mind you, some of my reception music was great. The DJ either couldnt find, or got things completely incorrect even though I provided a list of Artists and songs... luckily I had taken my laptop out to Cyprus with a copy of the entire request list and burnt it on a disc for him to use.
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My advice.. If there is particular music you want, check and double check that the music is correct before the day and if not personally supply a good copy of it

 

[Lakih]

I had a very non traditional wedding with about 15 guests. Me and the best man was greeting everyone and told them to please take a seat with the soundtrack of Requiem for a Dream playing in the background, select pieces - strokes part only. Played Lionel Richie - Stuck on you as my bride entered. And after the minister had pronounced us husband and wife we walked out while playing a piano cover of System of a down - Toxicity by VikaGoesWild (youtube chick).
No dancing at our wedding.

As for today...
Played another weekly session of DnD Pathfinder and then home to play EQ2.

 

[Billargh]

Congrats dude.

 

[Cerb]

Tbh kick the 30 yera olds out the game and get the college players minutes.
In four years when college 'soccer' grads go pro, the world will find out what US athleticism can do. Just look at that young kid 20 years old and runs so fast. The game will change global when US kids get older.

It will be interesting to see how it develops. I actually wonder if a focus on academy's across the country might not be a better method for the US.

If you're plan is to have kids come through the ranks at college, I see one main problem:

You're a 16 year old kid who is a freak athlete. You play Football, American Football and Baseball at an elite level (many of the best athletes in America do. See Russell Wilson, Jimmy Graham, Micheal Jordan) You get a call from Alabama to play American Football, Arizona State to play Baseball and USC to play football. Why on earth would you choose football? At Alabama you are already a star, you are probably secretly (illegally) being paid in incentives on top of your scholarship, and on that team you have a great chance to make the NFL where the MINIMUM yearly salary is hundreds of thousands.

Go the baseball route and you have a much better chance of getting drafted as they draft so many players. And players in that league are making 25 million a year!

Or you could play soccer. Get no recognition and become one of the tiny percentage that makes it beyond the MLS....

 

[DaGaffer]

It will be interesting to see how it develops. I actually wonder if a focus on academy's across the country might not be a better method for the US.

If you're plan is to have kids come through the ranks at college, I see one main problem:

You're a 16 year old kid who is a freak athlete. You play Football, American Football and Baseball at an elite level (many of the best athletes in America do. See Russell Wilson, Jimmy Graham, Micheal Jordan) You get a call from Alabama to play American Football, Arizona State to play Baseball and USC to play football. Why on earth would you choose football? At Alabama you are already a star, you are probably secretly (illegally) being paid in incentives on top of your scholarship, and on that team you have a great chance to make the NFL where the MINIMUM yearly salary is hundreds of thousands.

Go the baseball route and you have a much better chance of getting drafted as they draft so many players. And players in that league are making 25 million a year!

Or you could play soccer. Get no recognition and become one of the tiny percentage that makes it beyond the MLS....

I was having pretty much this exact debate with someone on Gawker, and it was all "US athletes are god-like, can do anything, blah blah", I don't buy that. There seems to be a view in American sports that if you're "athletic" enough you can do anything. Yes you have American football players who also play baseball, and you can even show the example of GAA where there are some players who can turn their hand to different games, but that won't be true for most players.

Anyway, the Americans will lose interest again for a couple more years now. Football means having to deal with foreigners and that ain't the Murrican way when it comes to team sports.

 

[Raven]

Same crap during and after every world cup. Even the world cup in 94 couldn't get them overly interested in the long term.

The USA wont get much better for a long time. There isn't the money involved to make it worth anyone's time.

They are still better than England though...and probably still better at producing home team talent, rather than a bunch of individuals who work well in a club set up but are dreadful at international level.

 

[Tuthmes]

Same crap during and after every world cup. Even the world cup in 94 couldn't get them overly interested in the long term.

The USA wont get much better for a long time. There isn't the money involved to make it worth anyone's time.

They are still better than England though...and probably still better at producing home team talent, rather than a bunch of individuals who work well in a club set up but are dreadful at international level.

I don't know Raven. The more people get interested, the more jonger players it will generate. You're right that without money it won't take off. Atleast not national. Yet we could see more players from the USA in Europa because of it. I personaly would love too see Yedlin play somewhere in Europe.

 

[Gwadien]

Trouble with America is that whilst 'Soccer' is the highest played sport amongst the youts, it's unplayed at college level, which dominates US sports.

 

[Tuthmes]

Trouble with America is that whilst 'Soccer' is the highest played sport amongst the youts, it's unplayed at college level, which dominates US sports.

Fair enough, good point.

 

[megadave]

It was definitely getting more popular prior to the World Cup so this will only have boosted that. Advertisers aren't going to be that keen compared to other American sports though, and since the country is such a capitalist cuntfest it might be a slow expansion.

I doubt they'll be any sort of world power any time soon, Hand Eggball will always be preferred and soccer still has stigma attached albeit less so.

Also there's a lot more to football than being athletic and USA are in no way anything special in regards to athletes, there's just fuckloads of them, they're rich, they embrace sports and invest lots of their money in them.

 

[Cerb]

It was definitely getting more popular prior to the World Cup so this will only have boosted that. Advertisers aren't going to be that keen compared to other American sports though, and since the country is such a capitalist cuntfest it might be a slow expansion.

I doubt they'll be any sort of world power any time soon, Hand Eggball will always be preferred and soccer still has stigma attached albeit less so.

Also there's a lot more to football than being athletic and USA are in no way anything special in regards to athletes, there's just fuckloads of them, they're rich, they embrace sports and invest lots of their money in them.

Interestingly enough, apparently the US-Belgium game had better ratings than the NBA finals.

 

[Cerb]

I was having pretty much this exact debate with someone on Gawker, and it was all "US athletes are god-like, can do anything, blah blah", I don't buy that. There seems to be a view in American sports that if you're "athletic" enough you can do anything. Yes you have American football players who also play baseball, and you can even show the example of GAA where there are some players who can turn their hand to different games, but that won't be true for most players.

Anyway, the Americans will lose interest again for a couple more years now. Football means having to deal with foreigners and that ain't the Murrican way when it comes to team sports.

I agree. The problem is that at a youth level, soccer is probably the biggest and most popular sport in the country. But kids never get a chance to really learn the intricacies of the game, because they all the kids with good skills/instincts and athleticism get poached for other sports at 12-13.

Which is why I wonder if academies across the country might not be better. Get the really talented ones at 10ish years old and enroll them in an academy that at that age will be much more attractive than playing highschool sports. Keep them there until 17/18 and then let them enter the MLS then. I think they should skip the college level altogether.

 

[soze]

I think the high school and college football is what will make America great. The more popular it gets The more Scholarships ect thay will hand out which will encourage kids with crap lives to keep playing. There is nothing similar over here and I wonder if the higher standard of living for poor kids than say in Brazil is why the Neymars of England just end up hanging out and drinking rather than playing football. I often thought that if there was similar over here our youth set ups would be to a better level.

 

[caLLous]

Who Won the World Cup of Arm-Folding?

 

[Hawkwind]

lol
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