ashmire13 wrote:my team, Southampton, are playing at the home of football,
FormCritic wrote:Your soccer team is travelling all the way to Cowboys Stadium for a match? Technically, the home of fooball would have been Texas Stadium, but that American monument is no more. I didn't even know that soccer was legal in Texas! (It would be interesting to see Scottish fans try to get out of hand in Texas.)
FormCritic wrote:(It would be interesting to see Scottish hooligans try to get out of hand in Texas.)
FormCritic wrote:Technically, the home of fooball would have been Texas Stadium, but that American monument is no more.
FormCritic wrote:2) In Seattle, I can see lawyers and media people showing up to celebrate this unique cultural heritage and successful lawsuits against the police...who would be charged with hate crimes and excessive force for not softening their own noses to avoid injuring Scottish fists.
FormCritic wrote:My brother toured Texas Stadium just over a decade ago as part of some business junket.He said it was in pretty bad repair back then.(I am at school today for "parent conferences." I might see one parent come in...so I'm pretty much goofing off at the moment.)
Badmike wrote:Jerry stopped fixing it when plans for the Jones Mahal started. It was in rough shape near the end. The last recent good memory there was the 1995 NFC championship game there vs the Packers. Although they won their last playoff game there the next year vs the Vikings, the Packers game was the last high point (the Vikings win was just a first round game against....the Vikings) as they won their most recent superbowl that year after beating the Pack.The first year in the new stadium they win their first playoff game in a decade and a half at home! Things are looking good for another "Team of the Decade" run.Mike B.
ashmire13 wrote:ok, so this is probably just going to interest 1 person on the whole forum (me!) but my team, Southampton, are playing at the home of football, Wembley,...
red_bus wrote:Yes, you should probably have been a bit more specific considering how many people here are from the US.(1) Wembley = Home of football. That is, home of "the beautiful game", which is played the world over by everyone from young children in parks to global superstars, in revered stadia. A game which requires no technical knowledge, but whose pre-eminent players combine grace, speed and skill to such a high degree that they become global heroes. A game which lives in the dreams of young men, and the treasured memories of old men, which can be played for laughs, or in earnest for glittering prizes. A game which is so exciting and so dramatic that once every four years, all the nations of the world get together to compete for a single triumphant trophy -- the World Cup -- where Homeric characters duel for prizes beyond mundane wealth or fame, cheered on by a billion adoring fans.
FormCritic wrote:Not with Romo at the helm. There is a missing element in Romo...the guts to perform in the big games...the iron-hard mind that wins in the clinch. Hell, it's been hard enough for Manning, much less Romo.Maybe it's the entire Cowboys team that doesn't have it.
Badmike wrote:In a league where Trent Dilfer has won a superbowl ring I'd never give up on someone with actual talent.Mike B.
red_bus wrote:(1) Wembley = Home of football. That is, home of "the beautiful game", which is played the world over by everyone from young children in parks to global superstars, in revered stadia. A game which requires no technical knowledge, but whose pre-eminent players combine grace, speed and skill to such a high degree that they become global heroes. A game which lives in the dreams of young men, and the treasured memories of old men, which can be played for laughs, or in earnest for glittering prizes. A game which is so exciting and so dramatic that once every four years, all the nations of the world get together to compete for a single triumphant trophy -- the World Cup -- where Homeric characters duel for prizes beyond mundane wealth or fame, cheered on by a billion adoring fans.
red_bus wrote:(2) Somewhere in America = Home of american football. A quite interesting variation of rugby played mostly in America and Canada.
Rabbit_67 wrote:Geesh! I must have missed something growing up. I never played soccer, didn't know anybody that played, and never even saw a game on television or anywhere else until I got to college. Even then I didn't bother to go to the games because it was just a minor sport.
