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Time For A Morale Boost, Or Why Bad Football News Is Good Market News
It seems that the American investing public needed a desparate morale boost after USA went 1-0 down against Germany in the FIFA World Cup... coincidence or "hand of god"?
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I am starting to think that these whole games were about as staged as the WWF. Let the US win a few, just to expand the market in a new country.
I could barely get any lunch with all the soccer fans hogging all of the tables.
After watching nothing but an organized game of keep away, I had a good laugh when Germany scored and the whole place had a massive sad.
I also laughed at the "highlight" of the first half when the US goalie dove and caught the ball, even though it would've went harmlessly out of play had he not. It brought massive cheers from the crowd.
Can we seasonally adjust the score or do we just blame the loss on the weather?
(overheard while waiting to tee off on the long par 5 12th hole)
pods
Its more exciting to watch when they start biting each other
American soccer fans must be viewed as idiots by real soccer countries.
USA survives the Group of Death and advances when almost nobody thought they could.
I've never said this before on ZH, but this thread is showing what a bunch of sourpuss, depressing wankers some ZH'ers can be.
I wonder what the % of stupid Americans on this thread even have a passport. 20%?
BTW, I'm American.
LOL, like anybody gives a fuck what you think!
Why are you here again?
They say the Americans lose in soccer because we don't fake our injuries.
I mean this is truly like watching cricket.
Even baseball is better. "Why not watch a bunch of guys get paid millions to stand around all day?" (All about the pitching!)
Phil Mickeslon "gambling on every shot." At least that explains his behavior. How do you do that in soccer?
"The goal keeper claims he never saw the ball!" I mean what's that guy do?
So am I. I have a passport. I've lived in Germany for 20 years, now. And Fussball is boring as shit.
Their team is making America a lot of friends in the wider world. And America is short of friends right now.
Hit a nerve, eh?
It was a typo; I meant 2%.
No... America just sucks at soccer...
They need to stick to that game where they use a stick to hit a ball....
Soccer.....worst sport eva.
That's what losers say :)
Wanne see a real game?
Belgium - South Korea starts in 2 hours :)
We'll win this WK for sure!
I'm dressing up and we're heading to the arena over here in Gent :)
RED DEVILS RULE!!!!
no thanks, i would rather watch Ellen Degenerate @ 4pm than a soccer game,
Belgiium vs. USA in the next round...
Like taking candy from a baby :)
A 400 pound baby that is :)
I'd rather see Belgium vs the Congo.
Everything you ever wanted to know about FIFA but were afraid to ask:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I&feature=kp
It's REALLY worth watching. Funny as hell and disturbing.
Traders (no pun intended) went back to work after losing hope on one goal scored. Wallstreet bastards
I think it is called "Post Traumatic Goal Disorder". Symptoms include "Just Buy Damnit". Or for the German boys it is an "das Beir inspired oopps".
Either way I win.
usa sux at futbol bitchez
More latinos will remedy that problem.
Not unless they are Argentines, and that ain't happening.
Seriously, soccer is for boys who can't play basketball, baseball, football (different from FOOOOT-BOWL), hockey, or bowl, run, shoot, or work on cars, or build computers, or play guitar, or ride bikes, skateboards, snowboards, skis, or go-carts, or lacrosse, or box, wrestle, grapple, swim, or dive, or any other activity that increases your ability to immediately or eventually get laid.
Bitches love kickflips. I know this for a fact.
I forgot surf. Chicks love surfers.
......and a well-placed header.
yeah, I'm sure David Beckham had a hard fuckin time getting laid...
That wife of his looks pretty mean.
I am sure even the World Champions of curling have awesome orgies.
I never made it at pro sports so I had to rely on bullshit to get some coochie.
The one married to Snotty Spice? Yeah I'm impressed, because underwear modeling is manly. FYI... in the US, only fags model underwear! Men don't need to!
Derek Jeter is a 40-year-old man that can't even keep a girlfriend from the pussyfall he receives weekly. Beckham couldn't get sloppy seconds on .1% of the ass on Wilt Chamberlain's short list.
"In the US only Fags model underwear"
Dude, not only are you so homophobic that you MUST be a closet fag, but you are also stupid as fuck.
And on a side note: "real men" don't pay so much attention to "other men". They mind their business quietly and confidently. Live and let live. Asshole.
You projected Beckhomo into the conversation, not me.
Hey man. Embrace your sexuality. It's nothing to be ashamed of. You don't have to go around ranting about "homos" to try to give off the impression you don't lean in that direction. It doesn't work. In fact, it achieves the opposite effect. It gives you away.
This is the 21st century, come out of the closet already. It's ok. Everyone will understand and likely be relieved that they no longer have to hide from you the fact that they knew all along you were a pillow biter.
Here, let your hair down, break out that pink sequin tube top you've got stuffed in a box on the upper shelf in your closet, have a dance and celebrate your new freedom to be the you you always knew you were meant to be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
aaaand Beckham is a homo.
Not the womens team. And some are really easy on the eyes.
Raymond, futbol sucks.
but half the team is from Germany, including its coach
thank god. we have hollywood for acting, and football for competing. let the euro trash have their flopping/diving/flailing faggots.
Look at the fucking Dow...
a complete fucking farce...
whats about it is a farce? its a fact that the DOW is going to 36000 in the next couple years so buying it here on the cheap is a no brainer; there is no risk.
"We can guarantee the continued issuance of dollars but we cannot guarantee it's purchasing power"
Alan Greenspan (said something like that to congress)
I don't have a dog in this Kraut vs Seppo fight.
Go Holland Go
what is more corrupt: FIFA's Sepp Blatter or our criminal stock market? Should they merge...oh the synergies
The theatrics in futbol are so ridiculous. They all need acting lessons.
oooh! did you see that? he kicked me in the shin!! owww!! must roll around on the ground in agony!... these little whining pussies wouldn't last 5 minutes on a rugby pitch or American football field...
They've all got SAG cards. Biggest collection of divers/floppers/flailers the world has ever seen. what a terrible product. who watches grown men fall down like they were hit with a bat, only to get up and run just fine. it's like watching montreal hockey, or nba basketball. watch a collection of pathetic, pansy, actor douches.
do they get oscars if they win world cup?
63 days til merican football starts. i hate mutherfucking boring ass soccer.
More BAD NEWS...More BAD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I just thought Yellen stepped on the money-printing gas pedal!
watching a soccer match - next to a speech of the Chairmanwoman the best remedy for insomnia.
Even the first half highlights were patheticly lacking.
I understand the riots now. Venting pure frustration over being teased with non-non-stop action in an effort to relieve the underlying boredom.
Traders -> males -> winning -> testosterone -> confidence -> buy stocks -> HE SCORES!!!!
(The crowd goes wild! It's NOT ALL Algos, ya know)
You're right; it's 99.9% algos.
Soccer doesn't suck as a sport. It's actually pretty fun to play. The problem is the sports culture in general. I want nothing to do with professional sports of any kind, anymore. No self-respecting person could paticipate in this extravagant madness.
When the market jumped, my knee started to hurt and I fell to the ground in pain.
I got up and the my ankle started to hurt and I fell to the ground again.
I got up again and then I felt a biting pain in my shoulder.
Crazy markets.
AHHHHH HE LOOKED AT ME
/fall down, hold shin
American sports could learn something from soccer.............. no timeouts.
Timeouts are for control freak, middle-aged, can't cut it on the field anymore men so they still "feel" like they're playing the game.
Our sports are kinda like the way we treat our "free" markets.......... non-players feel compelled to f*ck with them insessantly.
Dont blame the fans or the team...this may be one of the last few shreds of authenticity we have
cheers