USA TIES ENGLAND!!!!

[AkJay]

Don't know really, I'm assuming England with prevail. I actually watched Doctor Who instead... it was a good episode...

And you call your self an englishman

Never did, actually. Check my profile, I'm an American.

 

[Kielgasten]

I'm english, so I expect dissapointment. I never put USA into the winning equation, I still don't. I don't really know much about the quality of the teams, but it seems (to me) like the way the teams were organised into groups was to seperate the good teams and put 1 in each group.

My list being:
Group A - France
Group B - Argentina
Group C - England
Group D - Germany
Group E - Denmark
Group F - Italy
Group G - Brazil
Group H - Spain

I'll be watching the final, and maybe some england matches later on.. but I'm not that into it.

Fixed that E-group for you ;-)

 

[Danpascooch]

That'll teach em to prank us by spilling oil in our waters!

 

[teutonicman]

The amount of shame that England must feel is surely immeasurable.

 

[Souplex]

Does this mean we have to start caring aboot Communist Kickball as a nation?!
Freedomland is already occupied with too many sports, we need to squeeze out one. I say Baseball or Nascar.

 

[Arvind]

I think Spain are favorites to win, along with Brazil. Also, maybe England should have given Joe Hart a chance.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Not a bad performance against one of the best teams in the world, but I still have no illusions about the US winning...not going to happen. Still, we'll take anything we can get.

 

[LewsTherin]

And maybe the U.S. will qualify for the rugby world cup next year, and join the ranks of countries who play real sports

 

[Krion_Vark]

That is all.

 

[Kielgasten]

I think Spain are favorites to win, along with Brazil. Also, maybe England should have given Joe Hart a chance.

Hoping for Brazil. That would earn me quite a lot of money ;-)

Failing that: Go Denmark!!!

EDIT: LOL at the guy above me!

 

[GammaZord]

I'm surprised the US even qualified. Compared to pretty much all of the other teams they suck.

Broski, the US is favored to advance.

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

Spoiler: Spoilered the image so I don't slow the thread down

I was pretty pissed when that happened, I was anticipating that England would obliterate them. Ah well it was still a good match.

It's so funny that somone already made this. And England wins without this fuck up so as an american I still FEEL like we lost but I'm happy it was a tie.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

As an american, I find it utterly unacceptable that a sporting event can end in a tie. I don't care what the logic might be behind such a thing, I demand someone be crowned a victor even if you force the teams to play until players collapse from exhaustion!

Also, I don't follow football so I don't know if tying England is better than America should have done, or worse or precisely the expected result.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

And maybe the U.S. will qualify for the rugby world cup next year, and join the ranks of countries who play real sports

While I respect the notion that Rugby is somehow the more manly sport because the players don't have the good sense to put on armor, in my view that seems to inherently limit what can happen in the game. Bravado aside, without all those silly pads one could not expect to regularly deliver and recive the sort of impacts that are common in the NFL without burning through the talent pool at an alarming rate.

That said, Rugby IS more entertaining than soccer simply because at least blood is drawn and nobody stops the game on account of a tantrum unless there is an obvious shattered bone or ruptured organ.

Of course, the US participates in most sports at some level or another - it just happens that Basketball, Baseball, Racing and Football are so overwhelmingly popular that they dominate the mindshare. I myself participate in Fencing at the University level. I know plenty of people who play soccer regularly. I'm told that somewhere people play LaCross and row boats. I'm nearly certain that if there is an athletic contest with accepted rules and regulations, you'll find some portion of the American population regularly participates. It just doesn't rise to any sort of stature. Fencing for example will never be a popular spectator sport in the US because it is virtually impossible for the uninformed to follow and even if you know precisely what's going on, it isn't terribly exciting to watch.