The Zidane Incident
 

Even if you didn't [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am4q6jEJi4A"]watch[/URL] the world cup final you probably heard or read about the soon to be "infamous headbutting." Seems to me that that Italian fella must have said something downright nasty that rewired Zidane brain. I wonder what he said?

p.s. Also notice how the Italian is pinching his nipple as they walk back. WTF?

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That's an AWESOME headbutt. DAMN, I wish I could do it like that.

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Yeah, I'm thinking it was something about his mother, his country...or the fact that he's nearing the end of his World Cup career. One helluva head butt, though.

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And it wasn't even in the other guy's head! The only time I've seen someone go down from a headbutt is when they get hit IN THE HEAD. That's insane.

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Insane - Zidane!!

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you've got to remember, this guy is paid to headbutt the ball with as much force as possible. The man knows how to use his dome as a weapon.

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P.S. I just read that Zidane won the fan vote for best player in the World Cup. I find that funny.

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Soccer is for pussies.

That was a flop all the way.

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the best play of the entire world cup.... killer headbutt from straight out of nowhere... he probably lost it for his team, but whatever.

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i found the pic this morning, and it's now my wallpaper (check out flickr.com and do a search on zidane headbutt). here is the Lego interpretation:
[img]http://static.flickr.com/71/185784735_78851a3d7b.jpg[/img]

Materazzi must have said something dirty to Zizou...however, it's a dirty move to provoke such a reaction, so I don't feel bad for him. And, I don't think it cost the French as much as them subbing out Henry for Trezeguet.

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That must have been a hard head bunt but the italian was selling it.

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materazzi (the italian) called zidane a terrorist. zidane was born in france, but his parents are algerian.

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[QUOTE=Big C]materazzi (the italian) called zidane a terrorist. zidane was born in france, but his parents are algerian.[/QUOTE]


Thats what I was thinking. I know for a fact that Zidane is Muslim, so it wouldn't surprise me if something like that was said.

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[QUOTE=Big C]materazzi (the italian) called zidane a terrorist. zidane was born in france, but his parents are algerian.[/QUOTE]
That would make sense. Do you have a link to confirm?

Schneed - :thumb:

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WOW...soccer had an interesting moment for once!

It was the only one though...even with the little kicking contest to decide the championship.

I'm glad the NFL doesn't decide the Super Bowl on a field goal kicking contest, or we'll be in trouble with John Hall.

Oh well, France loses something else...the world is still normal.

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[quote=BDBohnzie]i found the pic this morning, and it's now my wallpaper (check out flickr.com and do a search on zidane headbutt). here is the Lego interpretation:
[IMG]http://static.flickr.com/71/185784735_78851a3d7b.jpg[/IMG]

Materazzi must have said something dirty to Zizou...however, it's a dirty move to provoke such a reaction, so I don't feel bad for him. And, I don't think it cost the French as much as them subbing out Henry for Trezeguet.[/quote]


:oink: What kind of line would provoke a boneheaded reaction like that?

Did he say "I just saw your momma in the locker room and she asked me to tell you to headbutt me in the chest!"

No words should make someone do THAT. He's just another childish Frenchman who's sick of France losing in EVERYRTHING.

[IMG]http://files.ontheborderline.net/french1.jpg[/IMG]

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I like how alot of people I know when asked say they are intrested in the Worold Cup but when you ask them if they have watched any matches they say "NO".Went fishing with a friends son yesterday and he was saying how big of a soccer fan he was and I asked him why he wasn't home watching the biggest soccer event of the next couple of years. He did not realy have an answer.

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[QUOTE=Redskins_P]Thats what I was thinking. I know for a fact that Zidane is Muslim, so it wouldn't surprise me if something like that was said.[/QUOTE]
Well the fact that he fought back proves he isn't totally French. Had he been 100% French he would have called Bruce Arena out to give him a hand and save his ass then turned around and bad mouthed Arena to all the other players.

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[quote=firstdown]I like how alot of people I know when asked say they are intrested in the Worold Cup but when you ask them if they have watched any matches they say "NO".Went fishing with a friends son yesterday and he was saying how big of a soccer fan he was and I asked him why he wasn't home watching the biggest soccer event of the next couple of years. He did not realy have an answer.[/quote]

you take kids fishing a lot?

j/k That kind of thing makes no sense.

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I think what he meant is the fact that rather than people say "F...Soccer" we actually don't go to the shitter when the scores come on ESPN.

Remember kids, there's different LEVELS of interest. ;)

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[quote=ArtMonkDrillz]you take kids fishing a lot?

j/k That kind of thing makes no sense.[/quote]Learn to read I said son not kid.

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[quote=firstdown]Learn to read I said son not kid.[/quote]

I know you said son, I was making a joke that the friend's son was a kid. So, if your friend's son=a kid and you took your friend's friend's son fishing, by that logic you took a kid fishing. I didn't mean to offend.

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[I]Just another Manic Monday...[/I]

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[url]http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=373681&cc=5901[/url]

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Sounds like something big happened in soccer. I've tried to get interested in soccer, but i don't find it that entertaining. I watched a couple D.C. United games this year, but that was it. How should i sum a soccer match up, well, it's like, anyone seen that clip where homer takes his kids to a soccer game because he saw an ad on t.v. that said this match will decide once and for all who the best nation on earth is, and then when he gets there, it's just like, blargh lol. And i know real soccer isn't like that either, just so you know.

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[quote=ArtMonkDrillz]I know you said son, I was making a joke that the friend's son was a kid. So, if your friend's son=a kid and you took your friend's friend's son fishing, by that logic you took a kid fishing. I didn't mean to offend.[/quote]No offence taken. Actualy I took several of them out. Their home from college and have been out flounder fishing 5 to 6 times and had not caught a single flounder. I took them out and they had their limits in about 4 hours and we came home with 30 flounder from about 17 to 24 inches.

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Do you have to pay per pound to keep them at all? When I was in Hawaii we had to pay a fee to keep some of them.

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International sports are interesting. Countries like France, Brazil, Argentina Germany, and Italy put all of their athletes into one sport, Soccer. There's a some basketball going on there too, but mostly it's soccer. So it's no wonder their teams are so good at it.

Then if you go to Cuba, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic, baseball is pretty much the only game in town. And of course they're great at it.

And then there's Kenya, and pretty much all they do is run marathons. So no wonder they always win the Boston Marathon.

Here in the States we have baseball, football, basketball, golf, soccer, swimming, track & field, hockey, and a whole slew of other sports. All of our athletes spread out into different sports. So internationally, the US teams always seem disappointing because we can't match up with the countries who breed only soccer players (France), or who breed only baseball players (Cuba), or who breed only Hockey players (Canada). You see our record in international play and it's easy to start to think, "hey, the US sucks at sports." But if we put all our athletes into one or two sports, we'd DOMINATE.

If you want to look at the US dominance in sports in a fair manner, take a look at the Olympic medal count each year. We're always at the top, especially in the summer games.

Imagine if football were an international sport?

Team USA:
[B]QB[/B] Peyton Manning, Tom Brady
[B]RB[/B] LaDainian Tomlinson, Shawn Alexander
[B]WR[/B] Chad Johnson, Randy Moss, Steve Smith, Marvin Harrison, Santana Moss, Terrell Owens
[B]TE[/B] Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzalez, Alge Crumpler
[B]OT[/B] Walter Jones, Orlando Pace, Chris Samuels, Willie Roaf
[B]OG[/B] Will Shields, Steve Hutchinson, Randy Thomas, Alan Fanaca
[B]C[/B] Olin Kreutz, Jeff Saturday

We'd pwn everybody. It'd be ridiculous. We have so many of our nation's best athletes in the NFL, a sport which no other countries really play. We're still the dominant sports nation. It's just we're the jack of all trades, and masters at only a few.

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only thing is that most of the nfl athletes wouldn't even play and represent there country it would be worst than the nba.

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[QUOTE=Schneed10]International sports are interesting. Countries like France, Brazil, Argentina Germany, and Italy put all of their athletes into one sport, Soccer. There's a some basketball going on there too, but mostly it's soccer. So it's no wonder their teams are so good at it.

Then if you go to Cuba, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic, baseball is pretty much the only game in town. And of course they're great at it.

And then there's Kenya, and pretty much all they do is run marathons. So no wonder they always win the Boston Marathon.

Here in the States we have baseball, football, basketball, golf, soccer, swimming, track & field, hockey, and a whole slew of other sports. All of our athletes spread out into different sports. So internationally, the US teams always seem disappointing because we can't match up with the countries who breed only soccer players (France), or who breed only baseball players (Cuba), or who breed only Hockey players (Canada). You see our record in international play and it's easy to start to think, "hey, the US sucks at sports." But if we put all our athletes into one or two sports, we'd DOMINATE.

If you want to look at the US dominance in sports in a fair manner, take a look at the Olympic medal count each year. We're always at the top, especially in the summer games.

Imagine if football were an international sport?

Team USA:
[B]QB[/B] Peyton Manning, Tom Brady
[B]RB[/B] LaDainian Tomlinson, Shawn Alexander
[B]WR[/B] Chad Johnson, Randy Moss, Steve Smith, Marvin Harrison, Santana Moss, Terrell Owens
[B]TE[/B] Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzalez, Alge Crumpler
[B]OT[/B] Walter Jones, Orlando Pace, Chris Samuels, Willie Roaf
[B]OG[/B] Will Shields, Steve Hutchinson, Randy Thomas, Alan Fanaca
[B]C[/B] Olin Kreutz, Jeff Saturday

We'd pwn everybody. It'd be ridiculous. We have so many of our nation's best athletes in the NFL, a sport which no other countries really play. We're still the dominant sports nation. It's just we're the jack of all trades, and masters at only a few.[/QUOTE]

The world simply doesn't play American Football, if they did the same thing that's currently happening in the NBA would be happening in the NFL. I mean, the US NBA team is no longer dominant in the world stage.

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[quote=saden1]The world simply doesn't play American Football, if they did the same thing that's currently happening in the NBA would be happening in the NFL. I mean, the US NBA team is no longer dominant in the world stage.[/quote]

Right that's my point. We'd dominate American football right now, because no other countries play American football. We used to dominate basketball, until other countries started playing and focusing on that as the only national sport. If other countries played American football and that's all they played, they'd kill us.

Right now, countries like Argentina can line up and whip our ass in Basketball and Soccer. For good reason, those are pretty much the only sports they play. We play tons of sports, our kids go into all kinds of other things. They may be able to beat us in those two, but line Argentina up against us in Football, Hockey, Swimming, Golf, Tennis, Track & Field, or Bowling and we'd kick their ass.

If their kids started getting into football, hockey, swimming, golf, tennis, and track & field, their talent in Soccer and Basketball would dwindle. Then it would probably be a pretty even match in all sports. It all depends on which sport your kids get funneled into.

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[quote=firstdown]No offence taken. Actualy I took several of them out. Their home from college and have been out flounder fishing 5 to 6 times and had not caught a single flounder. I took them out and they had their limits in about 4 hours and we came home with 30 flounder from about 17 to 24 inches.[/quote]

That's pretty cool. I'd like to do some deep sea fishing this summer, but not on one of those stupid mass charter boats where you just drop in a line for some seabass.

Next summer I'm going down to the west coast of FL with my family and hopefully we'll do some real fishing.

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by the way, soccer is so boring that fishing is a much more fun topic.

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about 3 weeks left until the pads start cracking......


is anybody else going stir crazy waiting for the season to start?
(i hate soccer, thats why i am attempting this highjacking)

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[quote=gibbsisgod]about 3 weeks left until the pads start cracking......


is anybody else going stir crazy waiting for the season to start?
(i hate soccer, thats why i am attempting this highjacking)[/quote]
When I was walking into work on Friday I was thinking that it was great football weather. I said that later in the day and my dad and sister both said, "so did I," at the same time. Apparently everyone around here is getting antsy.

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[QUOTE=gibbsisgod]about 3 weeks left until the pads start cracking......


is anybody else going stir crazy waiting for the season to start?
(i hate soccer, thats why i am attempting this highjacking)[/QUOTE]

I'm already planning my vacation around football so as to minimize the potential of missing [b][i]pre-season[/i][/b] games.

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[quote=saden1]I'm already planning my vacation around football so as to minimize the potential of missing [B][I]pre-season[/I][/B] games.[/quote]Now that is a man that is hard up for football. I'm right with ya saden1.

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I heard a rumor that the wall at giants stadium called gus frerotte a terrorist...

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[QUOTE=jamf]I heard a rumor that the wall at giants stadium called gus frerotte a terrorist...[/QUOTE]

Wow! I should just lock this thread right now because I don't know that there will be a better post than that. That's hilarious

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[QUOTE=Big C]materazzi (the italian) called zidane a terrorist. zidane was born in france, but his parents are algerian.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I heard it was allegedly something like "Your mom f**ks terrorists" or something along those lines