World Cup Ball On Time Cover Looks Lot Like Obama Logo

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Time cover with World Cup soccer ball looking lot like Obama logo. Ping to Today show list.

[N. Theknow]

A sanitary napkin design on a soccer ball?

[libh8er]

Obama being kicked around by people across the world. There’s some merit to that.

[1rudeboy]

I don’t get it. The design that Time chose has never been a World Cup design, as far as I can tell.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

True, but what better way to bring the world together than by celebrating the universal awesomeness that is Barack Obama? ;-)

[Non-Sequitur]

I think paranoia is running rampant and people are seeing the boogyman everywhere. Other than the ball is 3 colors it doesn’t look anything like Obama’s logo.

[Lakeshark]

That looks more like what the official O sign should be........

[kevkrom]

I think this one’s a bit of a stretch. They’re both round and have blue and read over a predominantly white background.

That’s it.

The World Cup ball also has green (lower right). My guess it’s a take-off on the Olympic rings.

[reagan_fanatic]

Time needs to adopt that old Peggy March song as it's theme song:

I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep me away

I must follow him, ever since he touched my hand I knew
That near him I always must be
And nothing can keep him from me
He is my destiny

I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
He'll always be my true love, my true love, my true love
From now until forever, forever, forever

[Perdogg]

You can get a replica World cup Ball in your countries colors. I went to Dick’s sporting goods and saw a number of soccer balls and one that looked like the one on the cover of Time (France).

It’s time for people to chillax.

[Perdogg]

Yes it has. You can buy a replica match ball in your country colors. The one on Time resembles the French Ball. I almost bought one thinking it was the US’.

[raybbr]

I agree. I don’t see any relation to the two.

[1rudeboy]

The one in the front is the 2006 ball. The 2010 ball is called the "Jambulani." People can look it up.

[Perdogg]

These are the offical match balls of all the World cups.

[1rudeboy]

Thus the term, “World Cup Ball.”

[governsleastgovernsbest]

With thanks to 1Rudeboy who pointed it out, the image of the World Cup ball I posted was actually of the 2006 ball. Here is the 2010 ball, which again bears no relation to the image on the Time cover.

[Texas resident]

What do you want to bet that our world citizen goes to the world cup? It is in his old neighborhood. Plus it’s another trip on the big blue plane.

[1rudeboy]

I said, “jambulani” hehehe.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Son of a gun we’re having fun on the bayou ;-)