Tough sport

tonyb
tonyb Posts: 32,958
edited July 2013 in The Clubhouse
I always knew soccer was tough. I also knew soccer fans in Europe are on the wacko side of things. But south America takes the cake. Brazilians are just....wow.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2013/07/06/soccer-referee-decapitated-brazil-stabbing-maranhao/2495199/

How many refs will be handing out red cards after this ? After chopping up the ref, they cut the dudes head off and put it on a stake in the middle of the field too. Couldn't pay me enough....
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    edited July 2013
    tonyb wrote: »
    I always knew soccer was tough. I also knew soccer fans in Europe are on the wacko side of things. But south America takes the cake. Brazilians are just....wow.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2013/07/06/soccer-referee-decapitated-brazil-stabbing-maranhao/2495199/

    How many refs will be handing out red cards after this ? After chopping up the ref, they cut the dudes head off and put it on a stake in the middle of the field too. Couldn't pay me enough....

    Couldnt pay me enough either. I catch enough crap reffing rec soccer. I found it funny that they only have one suspect under arrest
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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    edited July 2013
    Thought that getting whistled at and called an assassin when you make an unpopular call was getting pretty tense but this has to take the cake....
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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    edited July 2013
    Kinda puts a new meaning on the old saying It's Just A Game doesn't it?
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,399
    edited July 2013
    Even the Raider Nation ain't this nuts... players attacking refs, refs killing players, fans killing refs. Perhaps a new sport could be invented down there were the players kick live grenades across the field.

    The most insane fanes of any sport, and incidentally, the most insane parents of any sport participant. are the "soccer moms". Have you guys watch video of them losing it at games?

    Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the Aztec or Mayans have a primitive version of soccer in which the losing team was beheaded?
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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    edited July 2013
    I think the Aztecs used a real head and the goal was the opponents village...could be wrong,but the losers were sacrificed
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,958
    edited July 2013
    Lasareath wrote: »
    They should just ban the sport!

    It's not the sport Sal, it's the people.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,720
    edited July 2013
    Lasareath wrote: »
    They should just ban the sport!

    Yes, along with a ban on <things-that-go-pow>, knives, alcohol, tobacco, non-iodized salt, certain dog breeds, Easter eggs, cupcake soldiers, Happy Meal toys, large sugary soft drinks, unions, feeding the homeless, kid lemonade stands, incandescent light bulbs, school sack lunches, regular flow toilets/shower heads, reincarnation without prior consent, eating lobster, shaving, ice cream truck music, arsenic in chicken and pig feed, dodge ball, and .... electric cars.

    That's not a complete list, btw, but it'll do for starters. I'm not entirely sure how these measures will prevent soccer decaptitations, but ..... we have to do something now ! For the children !!

    DAD ! Stop it !
    ...oh, okay .....
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited July 2013
    Having lived in Germany quite a while I attended a few of the Bundesliga games VFB Stuttgart soccer games, talk about a crowd that takes the game seriously, I feared for my life a few times the soccer hooligans get downright nasty. I attended a couple of Charger Raider games as a kid those Radier fans that came to Charger home games were angels compared to German soccer fans.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,958
    edited July 2013
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    Yes, along with a ban on <things-that-go-pow>, knives, alcohol, tobacco, non-iodized salt, certain dog breeds, Easter eggs, cupcake soldiers, Happy Meal toys, large sugary soft drinks, unions, feeding the homeless, kid lemonade stands, incandescent light bulbs, school sack lunches, regular flow toilets/shower heads, reincarnation without prior consent, eating lobster, shaving, ice cream truck music, arsenic in chicken and pig feed, dodge ball, and .... electric cars.

    That's not a complete list, btw, but it'll do for starters. I'm not entirely sure how these measures will prevent soccer decaptitations, but ..... we have to do something now ! For the children !!

    DAD ! Stop it !
    ...oh, okay .....

    Lol....couldn't have said it better myself....Electric cars...WAAAAA !!!!

    I dunno gents, seems like it all boils down to R-E-S-P-E-C-T for one another. That's just me though, old fashioned as I am.
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  • pearsall001
    pearsall001 Posts: 5,068
    edited July 2013
    Man, you had me worried there for a moment Tony...when I read the title I though you were referring to golf. What a relief. And yes those fans are rabbid for sure. I'd hate to see what they would do when something important in their lives doesn't go their way. Look out!!
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,630
    edited July 2013
    Down right crazy stuff
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited July 2013
    Tuff crowd!
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited July 2013
    There was an incident recently in the paper where in the U.S. a soccer player punched the ref, who later died from the hit. There is an amusing aspect when parents get into fights at their kid's game. Of course, they are setting a bad example and contributing to a culture of violence, but it is funny in a black humor ironic manner.
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited July 2013
    didn't he ( the ref ) stab a player to death and the players family came back to ummmm extract revenge ?

    can't say that I blame um ......
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  • maximillian
    maximillian Posts: 2,144
    edited July 2013
    Vigilante justice should be legal then?
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,279
    edited July 2013
    None the less, Brazil has the world cup...plus the Olympics in the next 3 years.

    Bad publicity just as he NFL is trying to drop Aaron H like a bad habit
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited July 2013
    your're right max ... it shouldn't be ....didn't say it was legal ..
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited July 2013
    Reminds of that scene in Caligula where that machine goes down the field beheading people buried up to their necks.
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  • ViperZ
    ViperZ Posts: 2,046
    edited July 2013
    Lasareath wrote: »
    They should just ban the sport!

    Yep. Ban the most popular sport in the world (except for US and Canada of course).
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