Showing posts with label sport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sport. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Puto in the news, but Associated Press won't spell it out lol

 Mexico is struggling to stamp out a homophobic soccer chant ahead of the World Cup

 GUADALAJARA, México (AP) — Guadalajara is the capital of a Mexican state that is home to tequila and Mariachi music. It is also considered the birthplace of a less flattering tradition – a homophobic soccer chant that has cost Mexico hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines over the past two decades.

It’s no wild guess that the chant, a one-word slur which literally means male prostitute in Spanish, will be heard from the crowd in Guadalajara’s Akron stadium when Mexico hosts the United States in a friendly on Tuesday. Multiple sanctions from FIFA and campaigns by Mexican soccer officials to educate fans have not been able to stamp it out. ...



Sunday, October 8, 2023

Friday, July 21, 2023

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Nemesis comes for old soldiers Tom Brady, 44, and Aaron Rodgers, 38

 Both quarterbacks were defeated in the NFL divisional playoffs by field goals in the closing seconds of their respective contests.

Pure poetry.

Monday, October 28, 2019

Friday, November 27, 2015

What do Hillary, Huma and the Carolina Panthers have in common?


Thanksgiving Day 2015
earlier this year

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Monday, November 16, 2015

Even Muslim war uses the lie, conducting it with deceit: One suicide attack inside the Paris soccer stadium to create panic, two outside to meet the fleeing fans

Phil Jenkins, here:

"Matters would have been even worse if the attackers had achieved what was apparently the main component of the attack, namely the planned multiple-suicide bombings at the international football game. One bomb inside the stadium to create a panic, then two more bombers to meet fleeing fans at the exits."

Sunday, February 1, 2015

It speaks volumes about our society that Rush Limbaugh has never been able to count in Roman numerals

Under his "Pearls of Wisdom" no less, here, last week:

"Is this Super Bowl XLIX? Super Bowl XLIX. I've lost track of the ability to count the Roman numerals. Not that I ever did know."

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Maybe he'll finally figure it out next year at "Super Bowl L".

Oops, sorry. The NFL is giving up the Roman numeral counting system for Super Bowl 50, according to Wikipedia, here:

"Instead of naming it Super Bowl L with Roman numerals like in previous Super Bowls, this game will be marketed with the Arabic numeral '50'. The game is scheduled to be played on February 7, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the home stadium of the San Francisco 49ers. This will be the first Super Bowl held in the San Francisco Bay Area since Super Bowl XIX in January 1985."

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I guess you'll still need to know the Roman numeral system to count Super Bowl XIX.

Surely The Apocalypse is nigh.






















But to me it will still be "Super Bowl L", not to be confused with the official name of the trains of the Chicago Transit Authority:



















Only in the United States of Moronica.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Inflation In The 1970s, Illustrated

In the 1950s Woody Hayes taught the football offense known as "three yards and a cloud of dust".

By 1973 my line coach, Fritz Goettel, who passed away in July 1993, insisted on five.