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Smocko

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Sports History

January 06, 2004 at 03:43AM View BBCode

Take a good long look at this picture. Do you know its significance?



:cool:

Duff77

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January 06, 2004 at 04:38AM View BBCode

Is it the day the world realized that short-shorts aren't fashionable?

Smocko

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January 06, 2004 at 04:41AM View BBCode

Here's another view..

Smocko

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January 06, 2004 at 04:42AM View BBCode

And another



:cool:

Duff77

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January 06, 2004 at 04:45AM View BBCode

Definately not fashionable.

Smocko

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Retort..

January 06, 2004 at 04:47AM View BBCode

..well, the short shorts allow for freedom of leg-motion. These guys need that since they're soccer players.

tysonlowery

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January 06, 2004 at 04:47AM View BBCode

I remember watching that game - I won't give it away, but I think they call it the "Hand of God" or something like that.

Smocko

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Tyson knows his stuff.

January 06, 2004 at 04:49AM View BBCode

That's where I got the pictures, "hand of god" search.

Duff77

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January 06, 2004 at 04:51AM View BBCode

Obviously this was some terribly significant moment in a sport I know nothing--and wish to know nothing about. I hate soccer. That's why I'm being suck a dick right now. :)

jigakoeochiro

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January 06, 2004 at 06:12AM View BBCode

yep maradonna's hand of god that knocked england out of i think the 1986 world cup.

arodtoo

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January 06, 2004 at 06:15AM View BBCode

I thought you weren't allowed to play soccor with your hands, i guess only people who call it "football" are allowed to hit it with their hands:P.

happy

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January 06, 2004 at 06:35AM View BBCode

OOHH OOHH I KNOW this is when short shorts were declared unfasionable


oh wait, thats already been said.

is this the picture that sparked the "in order to end the confusion of soccer being called football, soccer will from now on be referred to as fag ball" conversation.

Cubsfan13

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January 07, 2004 at 03:57AM View BBCode

I know a guy who says that is the most important moment in British history. Not sports history, all history.

happy

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January 07, 2004 at 04:00AM View formatted

soccer sucks.

Duff77

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January 07, 2004 at 04:45AM View BBCode

Oh my god I agree with happy. The shame of it.

ME

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January 07, 2004 at 05:18AM View BBCode

soccer is fun to play as a kid but gets boring when you become a teenager and players can kick the ball far so the game becomes passing the ball in circles which makes it boring. Watching pro-soccer is incredibly boring, its all passing in circles.

Duff77

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January 07, 2004 at 05:49AM View BBCode

My dad used to bitch about this very articulately. His main gripe (which I didn't entirely agree with) was that you could never be any good at it. He thought that it was a game that went against human abilites, since we're not designed to do skill work with our feet or our heads. He believed there was no way to get good at directing a ball of your head or off your foot, because it just wasn't natural.

Of course on that point he was overstating it, since obviously some soccer players are better than others. But who wasn't seen this play: Guys gets loose and a great breakaway pass, gets right up near the goal, kicks the ball with nobody around him, and misses the damn goal by 50 feet. I mean--that's just not exciting to me--not watching it 1000 times a game.

ME

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January 07, 2004 at 06:50AM View BBCode

a heard a discussion on the radio about how to improve it for US audiences.

1. get rid of offsides, this will create more scoring (which makes games more exciting)

2. allow players to re-enter games once they are taken out.

3. make timeouts, this will mean more TV coverage beacuse there will be easy palces to put in commercials.

i like the 1st thing. i always though offsides was a dumb rule.