Posted on 07/22/2010 1:41:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
If you were into the final minutes of watching a soccer match during South Africa's recent World Cup extravaganza and suddenly you had the overpowering urge to go out and kill somebody, blame the vuvuzela.
...When blown like a trumpet, the vuvuzela produces a loud monotone which musicologists say is pretty close to a B-flat, three octaves below middle C.
...Played by a bunch of rowdy soccer fans, however, a blast from the vuvuzela could strip the chrome off a trailer hitch.
...During the World Cup, TV audiences often heard only the sound of vuvuzelas. Networks examined the possibility of filtering the noise.
Some players believed the incessant noise degraded the quality of team performance. Others remarked that vuvuzelas disrupted team communication and players' concentration during matches.
Apparently demand for earplugs during the World Cup outstripped supply, with many pharmacies running out of stock. One major vuvuzela manufacturer even began selling its own earplugs to spectators.
This week, Tottenham and Arsenal became the first English Premier League clubs to ban the vuvuzela from their stadiums.
A Tottenham official was quoted as saying, "Following discussions with the police ... the club will not be permitting vuvuzelas or similar instruments into White Hart Lane on match days." The official went on to say the club felt the presence of the stadium horn posed unnecessary risks to public safety. What?!!! ...
(Excerpt) Read more at stratfordbeaconherald.com ...
Good for them. Nip this silly fad in the bud.
Exactly. Can't imagine a Liverpool game without hearing "You'll Never Walk Alone" for example.
>>Soccer fans need to do something in order to not die of boredom at a game.<<
Exactly! Perhaps they could play some rousing games of chess using those little magnetic boards.
"This brownie tastes like dogshit!"
It’s a grand old team to play for,
It’s a grand old team to support,
And if you know your history,
It’s enough to make your heart go Whooah,
We don’t care what the red [side] say
What the [heck] do we care,
Because we only know that there’s going to be a show,
When the Everton boys are there.
“You’ll neeeeeveeeeer waaallBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ”
The vuvuzela: The time-honored ancient traditional plastic injection-molded horn used by African tribes for hundreds of years.
}:-)4
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