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Home Front: Culture Wars
U.S. Out Of The World Cup
2017-10-11
I watched this game on one of the Spanish channels. As soon as I saw Alvin Jones beat our formerly world class goaltender, Tim Howard, on a forty-four yard shot, I knew we were in trouble. It's the first time we're missing the World Cup since 1986.
[ESPNFC] COUVA, Trinidad -- With World Cup qualification seemingly in their grasp, the Americans lost 2-1 to Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday night. Coupled with Honduras' 3-2 victory over Mexico and Panama's 2-1 victory over Costa Rica, the U.S. finished fifth in CONCACAF's Hexagonal round, out of the running to qualify for Russia 2018.

Here are three thoughts on a humiliating night in Trinidad.
Posted by:Raj

#12  Isn't soccer a girl's game? US women's team did well in the Olympics. Bend it Like Beckham is about girl's soccer. They don't have real fights, just dramatic flailing on the ground pretending injuries to get a yellow card. Silly stuff most boys give up in middle school.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-10-11 20:18  

#11  Skid, it is a European game, after all.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2017-10-11 18:11  

#10  Kinda descriptive of the EU there, USNR.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-10-11 15:53  

#9  who cares?
soccer is the duck-billed platypus of the sports world; thier field, er pitch is a cross between real football and basketball, the teams, though highly sponsored cannot buy enough uniforms for everybody, so they make the odd guy out ( probably last selection in a pick up game) has to bring his own clothes and they really stand out. then to further humiliate him makes him stand in a 3 sided jail cell with Pillsbury Dough boy gloves on (looking like a cast-off from a Disney cartoon). then they play for 90 minutes, no offside calls for negative yardage or bench clering brawls. just referees running around handing out cards: "got any 6's?" no? here's a yellow card.
then at the end they add on whatever time they deem necessary to give the favored team time to win. not unlike democrats stuffing the ballot boxes.

and the final score is a tie sometimes, so everybody gets a participant award.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2017-10-11 14:40  

#8  More like watching paint weather.
Posted by: no mo uro   2017-10-11 14:10  

#7  It is already time to re-seed the lawn?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-10-11 13:10  

#6  Was worried for a moment. Then I realized this is just soccer.
Posted by: Iblis   2017-10-11 12:05  

#5  ditto #1.
50 years ago I heard the perfect description of why soccer would not catch on in the US.

They played a clip from a game where the announcer was saying " ....and X takes an insurmountable 1 nil lead!!!!"

A 90 minute game with only 1 goal scored?? Chris, you may rather watch paint dry but what you get is watching grass grow.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-10-11 08:20  

#4  Amen AA5839.
Posted by: Beavis   2017-10-11 08:07  

#3  Like watching Patrick Roy frozen at the net during the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-10-11 07:38  

#2  I would rather watch paint dry.
Posted by: Chris   2017-10-11 03:22  

#1  Watch rugby union, much better than watching paint drying.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-10-11 03:03  

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