World Cup Mascot
Opening kickoff is about 14 hours away. Hard to believe, but true. Ballack will not play for Germany in their opening game and the German press are already hammering his team ethic. He's hammered back. If there's two things Germans love it's David Hasselhoff and bickering. Ballack's injury is a huge blow. If Costa Rica steel themselves against the hostile atmosphere they could come away with a point. History does not favor this result however as host teams have overwhelmingly come away with victories in their first match. Here's to a competitive match at the very least.
It looks like I won't be able to post Gro
up G and H previews before the opening kickoff but that can wait because they don't play until next Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Sorry loyal readers, all 2 or 3 of you(sadly that number includes me).
What cannot wait, however, is the debacle known as Goleo, the official mascot of the 2006 World Cup. Take a look at this thing. So the FIFA marketers got together in a boardroom in Berlin and racked their brains to come up with a mascot that would represent both football and German culture to the world. The result? A handicapped lion with no pants. Good job guys. Ok, so they embarrassed themselves. Well, the story doesn't end there. The German toy company that staked their corporate life on Goleo just went bankrupt because, what a shock, nobody bought the piece of shit. Wait, there's more. A prominent member of the company was brought up on some kind of prior fraud charges. To top it off, German scientists did a test on the doll and declared that it could, and I am NOT MAKING THIS UP because you couldn't possibly do so, cause cancer!!!!! I could go on making fun of Goleo but others have done it better than I probably can. There is a veritable plethora of anti-Goleo humor online. One of the more hilarious examples I found is here:
http://www.deadspin.com/sports/world-cup/time-for-some-world-cup-nightmare-fuel-171786.php
Also check out their descriptions of past world cup mascots. Funny stuff. There have been some horrendous cup mascots to be sure, but how many actually caused cancer? You win, Goleo. A spectacular goal.......for cancer!
The cup is only hours away. A quick perusal of online World Cup information reveals that it is the most talked about, highly anticipated event ever, and I'm not just talking sports here. The last World Cup final had a television audience of over 1 billion, and that's not counting the millions who gathered to watch it outside of their homes in bars and restaurants, not to mention the throngs in Korea/Japan. The audience for the World Cup draw, in which they pull slips of paper out of a hat, was more than double that for the Super Bowl. Amazing. The amount of time, money, and print spent analyzing this thing is absolutely staggering. I think I speak for quite a few people on this planet when I say, "Let's get this fuckin thing started already."
It looks like I won't be able to post Gro
up G and H previews before the opening kickoff but that can wait because they don't play until next Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Sorry loyal readers, all 2 or 3 of you(sadly that number includes me).What cannot wait, however, is the debacle known as Goleo, the official mascot of the 2006 World Cup. Take a look at this thing. So the FIFA marketers got together in a boardroom in Berlin and racked their brains to come up with a mascot that would represent both football and German culture to the world. The result? A handicapped lion with no pants. Good job guys. Ok, so they embarrassed themselves. Well, the story doesn't end there. The German toy company that staked their corporate life on Goleo just went bankrupt because, what a shock, nobody bought the piece of shit. Wait, there's more. A prominent member of the company was brought up on some kind of prior fraud charges. To top it off, German scientists did a test on the doll and declared that it could, and I am NOT MAKING THIS UP because you couldn't possibly do so, cause cancer!!!!! I could go on making fun of Goleo but others have done it better than I probably can. There is a veritable plethora of anti-Goleo humor online. One of the more hilarious examples I found is here:
http://www.deadspin.com/sports/world-cup/time-for-some-world-cup-nightmare-fuel-171786.php
Also check out their descriptions of past world cup mascots. Funny stuff. There have been some horrendous cup mascots to be sure, but how many actually caused cancer? You win, Goleo. A spectacular goal.......for cancer!
The cup is only hours away. A quick perusal of online World Cup information reveals that it is the most talked about, highly anticipated event ever, and I'm not just talking sports here. The last World Cup final had a television audience of over 1 billion, and that's not counting the millions who gathered to watch it outside of their homes in bars and restaurants, not to mention the throngs in Korea/Japan. The audience for the World Cup draw, in which they pull slips of paper out of a hat, was more than double that for the Super Bowl. Amazing. The amount of time, money, and print spent analyzing this thing is absolutely staggering. I think I speak for quite a few people on this planet when I say, "Let's get this fuckin thing started already."
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