Buzz, buzz, buzz, zzzz
OK, I’ll agree. South African soccer fans have every right to play those annoying trumpets at the World Cup. I also have every right to call them annoying, and to use that as the basis for moving on from this year’s World Cup to more interesting things.
(For example, watching paint dry.)
It’s bad enough that the sport’s rules include nonsense about being “offsides” that is akin to banning passes to open players in a football game because they happen to slip behind the defense or outlet passes to fast-breaking basketball players because they had the foresight to beat the defense back toward their goal.
Whatever. I don’t get all that romantic about nil-nil snoozefests, and I’m not going to try to watch them over the sound of so many tens of thousands of buzzing bumblebees.
The arrogants-that-be at the head of FIFA can pontificate from on high about how we should embrace something uniquely South African.
My response is uniquely American – bite me.
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Posted on June 14, 2010 · 2 Comments
Come on, Chris. Where’s your curiosity? I know little about soccer but I want to watch as many of the World Cup games as possible so I can attempt to learn about the game that interests so many people world-wide. I want to know as much as possible so I can have additional things to discuss with my adult male students at Augusta Correctional Center. My international students represent Haiti, Jamaica,Vietnam,Mexico and several South American countries. The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is also represented in my class room. I don’t expect to dazzle them with infinite soccer knowledge but I do know they will become my teachers when I ask for a clarification of something I saw on tv. We wrote a great deal in our daily journals about the arrival of David Beckham from Great Britian to the Los Angeles team and his subsequent injuries so I can imagine the writing and speaking bonanza these World Cup games will give my students and me.
I wonder what FIFA would think about cheese heads and all the other unique gimmicks that we see at NFL games?
I enjoy the AFP and the ability to comment on your items. Thanks for all you do to keep us current with the local news!
My curiosity has reached its limit with soccer. The reason people play annoying musical instruments and sing throughout soccer games is because the games are so B-O-R-I-N-G! The rules of the game are designed to inhibit offense, creativity, skill and any kind of excitement for fans.
Soccer is a perfect sport for a bureaucratic world.
Cheeseheads don’t sound like a swarm of bees in the background of the TV broadcast. If they did, I’d say ban them.