Its an ad, scripted, written jokes, those are actors, nothing is "legit".

Not thrashing anything - I really think football fans are a good metaphor for a religious sect and I agree with the basic premise of this skit.

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So, I know essentially nothing about football /soccer (a fact I am sure will become immediately obvious). Maybe sift football fans can relieve some of my ignorance:

When I saw the title, I assumed that the keeper was going to launch it the distance of the pitch and score, but I see he's up with the other players.

In hockey, a team can "pull" their goalie back to the bench, allowing them to put an additional skater out on the ice in order to try to score late game-tying desperation goals like this. I guess this is the football equivalent of that?

In hockey, you can replace your pulled goalie with any skater you want (generally, they will be replaced by players with the most offensive upside or "clutch" scoring abilities). But I guess in football, maybe it has to be the goalie/keeper?

And as a followup to that last question, in hockey a goalie is not allowed to carry/touch/control the puck beyond the red (center ice) line. That rule is *almost* never actually put into effect, because there is basically no good reason for a goalie to do that. ...Unless you are (one of the alltime greats) Patrick Roy, team down by many goals with a few minutes left, upset with the lackluster effort of the team playing in front of him, and wanting to light a bit of a fire under their asses:


...Clearly didn't work out in as positive way as the football goal here (Roy didn't even know that it was a penalty to carry the puck over center ice beforehand), but a really funny quirk that happened in a game that I actually remember watching live on TV.

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I don't have a TV so I've been watching the score on-line, which is not 100% current.

So I didn't know we had won until your message popped up in my inbox. Not that I thought we weren't going to.

Trying to see Richard Sherman's effect on the game, whether he intercepted anything. All I could find was a reference to Manning never throwing anywhere near him.

As I keep saying, I'm not a football fan. Not really. But people around here were going nuts, so I wandered over. Not even a fair weather fan!

And. I am so proud of this team. Learning about Sherman, and Lynch, and Coleman (that is the name of the deaf guy, right?) What an amazing crew.

>> ^bmacs27:

@JiggaJonson, you still haven't gotten why they were cheering losing their own quarterback. It had nothing to do with cheering a hit. It had to do with being happy their shitty QB wouldn't be starting anymore. It's not bloodthirstiness. It's a roster issue.
@Yogi, people die from playing all sports every year. That's my point. Soccer is often considered the worst for concussions (as repeated low level concussions are more problematic than single big ones given time to heal) and cardiac arrest concerns (talk about over exertion) and basketball is often considered the worst for overall injuries (e.g. joints). I don't think football is unique in this regard, and at least they are trying to make rule changes to do something about it. If you want to stop concussions, don't allow headers in soccer, or make them all wear helmets and padding. Go ahead and see how that flies with their fans.
Finally, why is this guy wrong to criticize fans for cheering an injured human being? Because of your stereotyping of football fans? That's a specious argument to say the least.


He's wrong because they're the customer. If he doesn't like the customers demands he should pack it in. The point is he's saying this isn't the Roman Colosseum when it clearly is, because the fans decide what they cheer and they've been cheering big injuries for awhile now. They're the blood thirsty mob, if you don't like it than don't participate. I didn't play my senior year of High School Football, largely because I was congratulated by half the defense after injuring the other teams QB so badly he needed to be Airlifted off the field in case of paralyzation. He got up luckily, we got to see a Helicopter land and take off on our field.

High School coaches have always taught kids how to hurt the opponent, you've done a good thing if you put their star player out of the game. This is the sport, this is how it works.

@JiggaJonson, you still haven't gotten why they were cheering losing their own quarterback. It had nothing to do with cheering a hit. It had to do with being happy their shitty QB wouldn't be starting anymore. It's not bloodthirstiness. It's a roster issue.

@Yogi, people die from playing all sports every year. That's my point. Soccer is often considered the worst for concussions (as repeated low level concussions are more problematic than single big ones given time to heal) and cardiac arrest concerns (talk about over exertion) and basketball is often considered the worst for overall injuries (e.g. joints). I don't think football is unique in this regard, and at least they are trying to make rule changes to do something about it. If you want to stop concussions, don't allow headers in soccer, or make them all wear helmets and padding. Go ahead and see how that flies with their fans.

Finally, why is this guy wrong to criticize fans for cheering an injured human being? Because of your stereotyping of football fans? That's a specious argument to say the least.

I'm no football fan, but I think I get it. It was fourth so if he had simply dropped the ball, his team would have got possession anyway, only 40 yds UP the field.

Not a long-time football fan, but I can answer some questions.

Yes, at least in Turkey, football fans occasionally use banners on this scale, sometimes for political/environmental causes, and sometimes just giant flags. The rest of your questions I can't comment on.>> ^poolcleaner:

Is there significance to that tarp and the holes cut into it? I understand flares were banned and I know what that meme is, but is there more information to help non-sports fans understand? Is there a history of Turkish trolling at soccer matches? Did they cover themselves to obscure those that fired flares? Do soccer fans typically cover stands with tarps?

I LOVE Turkish football fans! One of the best things about this country.>> ^Krupo:

Reminds me of the time we saw a game with @messenger doublepromote the fire!

>> ^spoco2:

Wow, this is just, erm... yeah, this is quality television.
Fucking hell.
Yeah, he is a pathetic, angry individual, but how is this good for anyone?


This is the kind of problem I've been seeing in the UK from the outside. Apparently they've got some racist football fans...so? I don't like racists but that doesn't mean that being a racist means you go to jail. UK just doesn't seem like a place where you can have Freedom of Speech.

Tailgate party? Your average football fan would look like a teletubby in one of those things.

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