Slow day + Cowherd = Angry Ranting
By: Gianfranco | July 18th, 2007Today was painfully quiet day on the transfer front. We had some rousing comments regarding Berlusconi’s severed balls, Amantino Mancini as a transfer target (much to Chris’s chagrin), and no one on Earth wanting Vagner Love. Other than that there was little to no news or even conversation on anything.
I did catch something as I was flipping through the Sirius radio today, I stumbled upon Giorgio Chinaglia’s radio show and he was up in arms about ESPN shock jock, Colin Cowherd, bad mouthing soccer once again. Cowherd is a repeat offender and I began to wonder if Giorgio’s ranting was even worth it.
First of all it is safe to say that ESPN is awful at broadcasting soccer to the US audience (the WC last year was a different story), but the MLS camera angles, side line reporting, and all around packaging is not all that great. It is hard to see the sport succeed with all those split screens and the cutaways during actual offensive plays. It is also safe to say that ESPN would much rather have Arena football succeed because they have a vested interest in the league, and in MLS not so much.
My ranting and raving is leading to this point. As soccer fans how many times have you had to explain your passion for “Soccer”, how many of you have had to explain why it is so exciting and blah, blah, blah. Just today I had to fight some guy on an open soccer field to stop chipping golf balls so we could play pick up. I am just sick of all the bs, I don’t want to have to explain my enjoyment of soccer to any one anymore. I am also done asking people if they want to catch a game or check out some YouTube videos. If people do not want to watch then f*ck em, they don’t know what they are missing. Go watch American football where a three hour game has only 20 minutes of actual play or even better listen to Colin Cowherd who is an embarrassment to American’s who share this view below.
“Soccer is politically correct, futile and relatively safe. Who would want to pay money to watch something like that?”
Please post any comments about situations where you have had to “justify” your love for the beautiful game, or just ran into some stubborn asshole who said soccer was for fairies. Sorry for the ranting but I just could not keep it to myself anymore, and I want everyone else’s take for a nice, cheery email to Mr. Cowherd.
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haha, this is why i love vacations in dubai!! more football lovers… i usually tell them that this is the true world’s game unlike what they just like to call the “world” series… which really doesnt make any sense, all the teams are in the US?! besides cowherd is too moronic to receive any attention…
and as to the queit on the tranfer front, i believe that is the best news we have heard all month… now we may actually be making some progress, because the day before we were linked to no less than 8 strikers, none of which we will probably end up getting… so now we may actually be doing some of the work to sign some one in the backroom somewhere in milanello
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haha, this is why i love vacations in dubai!! more football lovers… i usually tell them that this is the true world’s game unlike what they just like to call the “world” series… which really doesnt make any sense, all the teams are in the US?! besides cowherd is too moronic to receive any attention…
and as to the queit on the tranfer front, i believe that is the best news we have heard all month… now we may actually be making some progress, because the day before we were linked to no less than 8 strikers, none of which we will probably end up getting… so now we may actually be doing some of the work to sign some one in the backroom somewhere in milanello
ps. what is the deal with the posting thing, keeps given me some no “sencod” chance errors..
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In FOOTBALL,
There are no time outs,
There are no helmets,
No shoulder pads,
No commercial breaks,
No warm dugouts,
No halftime extravaganzas,
So if that’s what you need,
Play another sport.
You big pussy.thats for that wanker you mentioned who called football a fairy sport. put him on the field, i bet the jackass wouldnt last 2 minutes…
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1)Giorgio has a radio show?! Where?
2)Cowherd is seriously not worth getting upset about. He’s an ass, and all of his listeners are sheep who think about nothing but college football. He’s preaching to the choir, that’s what he does.Posted from
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Giorgio is on the Football Show Wed 5-8 (shouldn’t I get paid for that advert) on Siruis Sports 2, it is a pretty good show especially when Giorgio gets mad at guests and shouts, “I am Giorgio Chinaglia!!!!”
I try to not get worked up about guys like that but I do not spend half my time ranting about how college football/basketball sucks on my blog, I just do not see why he cannot leave the whole thing alone. Could it be that Mr big bad american sports feels threatened by soccer, he had the nerve the other day to stay that only poor people play soccer because it is cheap and easy…tell that to the suburbs that fill soccer fields on a week in and week out basis. I may hate Cowherd more than Landycakes…
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another day another link to another barca player….. will we just give it a rest and move on?!?
i thought all the quiet meant that they were actually doin some work, turns out galliani was getting ready to put on his poker face to get a player thats happy at his current club from a club thats happy with its current players…. this will end wellPosted from
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I don’t even bother anymore. When someone tries to slag off on football, oops, I mean soccer, I usually just ask them about which sport they think is better or ‘more manly’. If they say American football I just start laughing. I don’t see how any sport where a player wears a pad to protect nearly every inch of their body is tough.
I’m lucky enough to live in a town where football is held in high regard, even more so than American football, so I don’t have to encounter much hate.
And I’m with you on ESPN. I never watch it anymore, period. It helps that I don’t have cable and my TV isn’t even plugged in, but I refuse to watch at bars as well. If I know the bartender I ask them to turn it to FoxSoccer, which isn’t much better, or COPS.
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The thing about Cowherd, though, is that I doubt he’s even THOUGHT about soccer. He just says waht he says because he knows 90% of his listeners will eat it up, and the few who won’t might call in and give him an excuse to yell some more. It would bother me if he had a huge audience, or was, you know, smart, or respect or something. But he’s none of the above, you know? Ladycakes is WAY more worth your bile!
(I must find this Giorgio show. I wonder if it’s online somewhere.)
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“Soccer is politically correct, futile and relatively safe. Who would want to pay money to watch something like that…” Ignorance is bliss, no?
There IS something to be said about being a “lone wolf” football fanatic in the US; I can only imagine what it must be like to live in a football country, but I feel the struggle we go through to watch and live football makes us that much stronger. Any idiot can be a [insert team name] fan when they live in that city/country, but I feel ‘we happy few’ are more hardcore because we are alone surrounded by haters and non-believers.
If I lived in Torino I doubt I’d have the symptoms of soccer madness I’m suffering from today, like seeing goals in building doorways and subway turnstiles, imagining curved passes and crosses around taxi cabs and over the avenues, and listening to the deafening chants of my favorite players in my head
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But, Mike, if you lived in Torino you could see Eugenio Corini on a regular basis, and therefore wouldn’t care about being slightly more sane. And I would be desperately jealous.
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Gianfranco, I know exactly what you mean. Every single time either a local news reporter or radio personality brings up Soccer they have to insult it in some way. I almost would rather they just not even mention it. I don’t what they are so threatened by that it actually angers them to the point that they actually have to make anti-soccer statements as well. Oh and by the way, we’ll be keeping Cavani.
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The problem is that the haters (I’m 21) grew up playing soccer. They think that soccer is like the no contact, no direction game they played when they were 9. They had coaches who didn’t know anything about the game and the quit before it got physically demanding. They pretend like they know about the game because they used to play- but really they have zero clue how physically demanding soccer is.
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