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"To be fair, at least 23,000 people in England die per soccer game." - Bill Hicks

"In football, in the stands, you can be sure that at least 27 times during the game you were capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.  Preferably a stranger." - George Carlin

UMUR wrote: I�m slowly getting over the hangover I have after drinking a few beers yesterday at a football (soccer) match. My team was in front (away from home) 1-2 until the 87th minute of the game. Then things went straight to hell and the other team scored two goals within 5 minutes and we lost the game. Fucking shitty game.   ...and they were local rivals too, which makes a loss like this even harder to bear.

Being a sports fan myself, I can really appreciate how you Europeans root for your favorite teams.  We have our fanatics here too but no sports fanbase in America rivals the average European soccer (or football, whichever ) fan.  Here in America most people are blinded by pop culture and the image the media places upon these athletes to see that that's what they are-athletes-no different than you and I.  Meanwhile they're out having parties that are worth a half a million dollars because they've been over-inflated since they were 13 years old.  Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  I would love like hell to be able to enjoy my sports without all of the baggage that people throw in there.

Obviously my experience with European sports is limited, but I was very impressed (to an extent) with how much the Turks care about their teams.  I'm a big fan of women's basketball but I'm definitely in the minority around here, as most Americans are too busy with their stereotypes and close-mindedness to give the sport a chance.  The reasons I like it (genuine, nice athletes, organizations who actually care about their fans, no media sniping like the men's league) are not really reasons why most other people in this country like sports, but I think Europeans think more like I do.  This past winter I was watching a FIBA game between Fenerbahce and Galatasary; it was a Euroleague tournament game being held in Istanbul, and both of those teams are in Turkey, so obviously the arena was loaded with Turks.  Leading up to the game there was a lot of discussion about how the two teams are huge rivals and the fans don't like each other at all, but I figured that just came with the territory.  Wrong!  Towards the end of the game there were people throwing firecrackers at each other inside the arena, and afterwards there were reports of dozens getting arrested after getting into fights and whatnot.  Now this is a pretty extreme example (and I'm not saying that I wish fans of rival sports teams would try to blow up my house), but I thought it was cool how the fans in Turkey didn't care if guys or girls were playing or what sport it was, they were behind their club 100% no matter what.  That was a breath of fresh air for me.

Just watched the match on tv woot Alvarez kicked ass xD

I'm listening to three tracks at the same time.

Eating chocolate ice-cream in front of Trainspotting. Yes, that scene.

Multitasking.  I've got a baseball game on the radio, a basketball game on my computer, and an (American) football game on my TV.  Life is busy right now! 

Posting on an Internet Forum about Heavy Metal Music.

11:46 pm Watching Dark Night Rises Drinking a monster while being attacked my my cat Blink ^^

The tv is on..

1: 00pm - in a linear algebra lecture, listening to black Dahlia murder.
Fuck how I love this band