Barthez in Berlin : French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez gestures during the FIFA 2006 World
Cup final football match between France and Italy at the Olympic stadium in Berlin. Italy
won on penalty kicks. (AFP/DDP/David Hecker)
Posted on 07/10/2006 3:39:28 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Very neat. LOL!
Are you sure that is what is happening -- I thought the photograph was taken when De Gaulle finally made it back to Paris, after the US and the Brits had kicked the Krauts out.
Funny you say that; I was wondering why I wasn't hearing nonstop cheering throughout the afternoon, only cheers twice, while I was kept awake by those driving down the street honking their car horns.
"No way is the greatest sport ever invented "boring"...Baseball is a chessmatch, only with more strategy (whereas football is more like checkers)."
If I hear the old "baseball is a chessmatch" BS once more I will barf. First, it's not that complicated, and second, have you ever watched a chessmatch? It makes soccer look exciting.
LOL Yeah, you're one of many who've told me the same thing. I don't know a thing about the game, but whenever Italy gets brought up among non-Italians, the soccer fans I know roll their eyes and groan.
Italians on the average DO get into histrionics.
LOL!
And sheesh, baiting the opposition is standard in every sport. Zidane should have shot back with something equally clever, like, "zhut up! zhu zpaghetti eating zwine!"
Really? Ever try to hit a sphere with a 5" circumference going 100 mph? How about throwing it so it breaks in an arc of 30 degrees? Every pitch in baseball is exciting because a spectator does not know what will happen. Will it bounce through the hole between 5 and 6 for a single? Will it ring off the wall for a double? A triple? Will it clear the fence? If runners are on first and third with one out and the pitcher is up, what is the proper strategy? Squeeze play? Sacrifice or take you chances with a double-play?
How do you pitch to a Hank Aaron with some one on second? Walk him? Challenge him inside with hard sliders? Make him hit the breaking pitch that sometimes hangs?
Baseball, as CONSERVATIVE George Will points out, is truly the king of sports!
I gather the French football team lost.
"Every pitch in baseball is exciting because a spectator does not know what will happen."
No is arguing that baseball doesn't reqire skill. As far as every pitch being exciting I'd say you are in a distinct minority on that one. Strategy-wise you can make the same arguments about football. Many decisions, options and unknowns for all situations. There is just more happening at once without the long pauses. Furthermore in baseball, when your team is on defense you can't score no matter what you do. In football either team can score at any time.
Yeah, and if you ever catch the video, she's clearly applauding.
nah, they just need to enforce the rules. No TRAVELING. Call fouls on the "stars".
Pro-basketball is wrestling with a ball....and I mean the fake wrestling. There's too much gaming the system with 7 game playoffs...
If I was the commish and ruler of the world. I'd make it a 1 Billion dollar single elimination tournament. The teams would play their in cities that had the best winning percentage from top to bottom and if there is a tie then go to heads up or opponents played.
For a cut of 1 Billion dollars, I guarantee that Shaq would crash the boards and make some free throws.
The season would be used to determine the order of "ranking" with the best team playing at home.
For the baseball guys that I offended, sorry it's just my opinion. I think it's boring, slow and if you've got the time to sit around, drink beer with your friends, and drop a couple of hundred bucks if you take some kids.... more power to ya.
I like football, tennis, UFC fighting and boxing...I've got the attention spam of a gnat.
It looks terminally gay.
Or as "The Hardline" on DFW's The Ticket say, "Baseball is a talking sport."
Listening to the Jim Rome sports radio show earlier and one of the e-mailers likened the shoot out to finishing the final game in the World Series of Poker and then playing a quick game of war to decide who wins...
I got a chuckle out of that one.
I think he's trying to get to his undershorts so he can make a white flag.
And what's with all the whining that there's not enough scoring? Is there some sort of American rule that states scoring should be frequent and easy? I suppose the advertisers like it that way, but c'mon.
That being said, the Italians are a bunch of drama queens.
You can still smoke cigarettes in Paris?
Deodorant is still optional too, I've heard.
I hate to admit it too - but France was the better team.
The entire second half seemed like it was played on Italy's side of the field.
FIFA should scrap the penalty-kick OT and just go to a sudden death OT.
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