HUZZAHHH! It’s here! It’s finally here! Hooorrayyyyyyyyy! Or something! The first World Cup game went off this morning and I woke up early, brewed some coffee, made myself some toast and sat on my couch to watch what has been built up to be the be-all and end-all of sports events on television, and here […]
Day one of the World Cup is like Christmas as a kid, except that this Christmas involves heavily drinking before noon and spouting obscenities at the TV. Actually… now that I say it out loud, yes. The World Cup is exactly like Christmas. We’ll all lay in bed tonight, trying to fall asleep, with images […]
I’ve always been a little weirded out by Woody Harrelson. My parents loved Cheers, and No Country For Old Men was awesome, but that scene from Kingpin with the gross old lady in the rearview mirror and her fingers and tongue… it just… iickkk. Scarred me. However, Zombieland changed all that for me. His performance […]
I happen to have a good friend whose birthday falls of day one of the World Cup, and because of my new found love (confused curiosity) of “footy,” I casually suggested we throw a World Cup themed party for our friend — record the first game in the morning and then watch it at night, […]
I’m going to admit something that may well get me beaten and shackled within the confines of my cubicle here: This weekend, I forgot about the World Cup. I just forgot it existed. There was basketball on, and drinks to be drank, and I just plum forgot that the world’s most watched sports tournament was […]
Uh oh, two WC2K10 posts in one day! What’s gotten into us?! I’ll tell you what — World Cup Fever, Soccer Sickness, the Football Flu. We just can not wait any longer for moments like these, that make us wonder how America still hasn’t caught onto the awesomeness of this sport.* *Note: Posts in this […]
9 days and counting, people. We’re getting closer to one of the most watched sporting events in the entire world, a month-long booze fest where grown men are reduced to tears and occasionally pissing in their high school soccer shorts. Now it’s getting to the time when you need to start making your World Cup […]
