Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:32:11 -0700 shithead from private IP, post #16258341 /all Live from the National Mall! Monster Truck Sunday! You heard it here first. Celebrate Are Heritage. Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:37:18 -0700 shithead from private IP Reply #12292366 Jaja, I choose to run with this Beloved Thread. I hope Andy sags the other one. Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:41:06 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #12549150 Wow you laugh in Spanish. checked and kek’d Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:25:42 -0700 Andy from private IP Reply #13681632 The thing I hate most about soccer is the chain-smoking Eurotrash with their little Puma track jackets and stuff like that. It will be interesting to see how much of the Eurotrash element makes it into the nearly simultaneous America 250 celebration that co-occurs with the World Cup. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:43:44 -0700 shithead from private IP Reply #16148718 Dude, Euroweenie is the proper nomenclature. Let me introduce to you zerosugar, wannabe Euroweenie. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:31:26 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #17248638 @shitheadTest I’m not a wannabe Euro at all. There are things I dislike about them and things I dislike about Americans. People can grow up in a liminal spaces. I’m not like Europeans, but I’m also not like generations old Italian Americans because my mom was born in Italy. I grew up speaking that language and my dialect and have a home abroad and went to school briefly abroad as a child. This doesn’t mean I relate to Europeans, but it also doesn’t mean I’m completely like Americans who didn’t grow up as I did. People can be bicultural and that’s a very liminal space. If you are taking about me watching soccer, well I never played but watched my whole life as it’s what my grandfather watched on tv and I grew up in the same home as him. My cousin also played and my first memory when I really started to watch was the 2004 Euros when Ronaldo was first becoming a star and lost it to Greece. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:39:20 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #15268408 When I say my grandfather talking about my maternal grandfather. I just didn’t grow up with American football aside from watching super bowl once a year and exposure who Alabama fans as my mom’s family went out to Alabama in the late 70s. Long story, my mom’s bro player soccer out there for a while in university and ended up staying and then my other uncles followed him out there. My mom decided not to stay. I did watch basketball as a small child when the Bulls were winning and of course have vague memories of all the celebrations. My father who is more Americanized compared to my mom’s family used to play baseball and listened to baseball on the radio all the time. Again, the only sport I got into watching was soccer because of my grandfather and cousins who played and watched it. I also like it because it’s simple not because I want to be European. It’s easy to understand and plus I think the players are eye candy. I never played sports so I don’t get American football and baseball rules. I only did dance. Ballet, tap, hip-hop, jazz, and Modern graham technique. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:48:17 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #10064434 2006 with Italy winning and the Dolce & Gabbana calcio ad also really got me interested. I also visited Camp Nou in 2012 and saw how much a city can be formed around a club. When it was game day in Barcelona everybody wore their shirt. People even put Barca shirts on babies and dogs. Now clubs bring local pride, but honestly with the world cup or Euros when your country wins, it’s something else that you can’t imagine. When Italy won the WC in 2006 it was a kind of happiness that cannot even be explained which is crazy for just soccer. Then when they won the Euros in 2020 against England which was actually held in 2021 due to Covid and I watched penalties with my mom and grandmother just the excitement after was so crazy. Here in Chicago, on Harlem avenue everybody went crazy with their flags. It was just so much soul. Americans just don’t experience that when their city wins. It’s not the same thing. Don’t get me wrong people here went crazy when the Bulls would win and it was also exciting, but nowhere near like a World Cup or Euros. The fact that more people are watching soccer now in the USA says a lot. Soccer is just so old school too. Sadly, Fifa are destroying it now with VAR, constant diving, and commercialism. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:49:51 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #15918454 Anyway yeah obviously I’m different from people who have grown up in Europe their whole life, but I’m also not like my American friends. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:58:11 -0700 marlon from private IP Reply #18073435 Sugar is the best Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:23:11 -0700 shithead from private IP Reply #11293525 Bob Mould has blessed every project he has touched, including Sugar. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:23:58 -0700 shithead from private IP Reply #18802527 https://open.spotify.com/track/26IerWW0gS05ecTomwWe6p?si=6bf34db48ccd4faa Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:10:17 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #14661868 Also the reality is the World Cup final gets 1.5 billion viewers around the world. The Super Bowl gets only about 150 million and the majority are all in the USA. Some of these guys really become heroes for their countries too especially if the country is a smaller country or wasn't a huge footballing nation. Luka Modric went from being a refugee to bringing Croatia to the World Cup so many times and ranking so high even making the final in 2018. Cristiano Ronaldo put Portugal on the map. There were of course some stars before him like Jose Mourinho, Mourinho retired early and is more about coaching and never played in a WC. Then for clubs, well when a player is from a town where the club is located and has played there his whole life, he becomes like a local hero. Think of what Gerard Pique means to Barcelona. Xavi Hernández Carles Puyol too. Catalan men who grew up in a town and loved the club since they were little boys and then became players for the club. Totti with Roma too. Even for people who aren't from a club, they can become legends of that club. Messi became one for Barcelona. Ronaldo, Modric, and Benzema for Real Madrid. These are guys who won Champion's League several times. This is so different from American football or basketball where one African American guy will play in Los Angeles two years then go to Detroit or Chicago or New York. Sure some players can become synonymous with a city, but thats rare now. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:23:53 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #10383857 If you are a woman and want to see good looking trad guys on tv, soccer is the only sport that really has that. The only American football player in recent times I can think of who was attractive was Tim Tebow and sadly he was a Protestant missionary nut job. Very on brand for him that he married a South African. White girls who like watching football and basketball tend to be attracted to black American men. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:24:17 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #15366748 Some hockey players are cute, but they get their grills messed up.Replies require login.
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