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Topic: Perhaps the Only Evidence Soccer is as Cool as American Football

Togo team that lost to Bahrain 'completely fake'
By Brooks Peck


The real Togo. 

It's been a horrendous year for Togo's national team. Its football association's ruling committee was dissolved by FIFA last December and in January, two team officials and a driver were killed when their bus was tragically targeted by machine gun-wielding rebels in Angola just before the African Cup of Nations. That incident led to distraught captain Emmanuel Adebayor quitting the team. And now, there is a mysterious group of players impersonating the team and losing unsanctioned friendlies on their behalf.

Last week a squad claiming to be Togo lost 3-0 to Bahrain in an unsanctioned exhibition. According to interim federation chairman Seiyi Memene, that team was "completely fake."

From the AP:

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Re: Perhaps the Only Evidence Soccer is as Cool as American Football

you should have added "to me" in the title smile
there is a whole bunch of people who think soccer is cooler, and even a whole bunch of ppl who havent even heard of "american football".



just me 2 cents.


funny story though ;p

till the end of time..

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Re: Perhaps the Only Evidence Soccer is as Cool as American Football

/me pours 5 liters of iced gatorade on Nemeara

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Video: Ohio's mascot is a better tackler than Ohio's players
By Matt Hinton

Predictably, Ohio U.'s defense had no luck Saturday with Ohio State's offense. The Buckeyes scored four touchdowns and two field goals on their first six offensive possessions, blowing out to a 34-0 lead before putting it on cruise control in a 43-7 rout, and extending OSU's winning streak over in-state "rivals" to 33 games. At least Ohio's mascot, Rufus the Bobcat, was able to get in one good lick for the underdogs before the carnage began, sort of:


Well, he's persistent, anyway.

Why did Rufus jump Brutus? He's an amped-up, 19-year-old undergrad in a bobcat costume with a chip on his shoulder in front of 100,000 people. Why do fish swim? And frankly, if you're just running onto the field, maybe you're kind of asking for it.

In fact, the guy in the suit, Brandon Hanning, told the Ohio student newspaper he tried out for the job with the explicit intention of assaulting Brutus this year

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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