Vuvuzelas

One of the local radio DJs has been calling soccer "The annoying horn game" for the last week.

Shawn

I bought one of those back in 1981 at the Indianapolis 500 and kept it for years. I could blow it in my backyard and hear it echo all over the neighborhood.

One horn is LOUD!

pete240z wrote: One horn is LOUD!

According to the interwebs, they are about 127 decibels each. Hella Supertones are only 118 db each. Imagine a stadium full of Supertones all going off at once

Ok, I must be a complete shiny happy person. I saw that the Vuvuzela was available for Android, and immediately downloaded it to piss people off.

I remember my sisters ex got one for New Years 2000, and we were about to shove it up his rectum after 10 minutes

I thought being loud as hell was an age-old intimidation factor for the away team?

MitchellC wrote: I thought being loud as hell was an age-old intimidation factor for the away team?

Yeah, but this is just being loud, constantly, for no perceptible reason other than to be loud.

Click this link to put GRM on this petition to ban vuvuzelas from all sporting events in the US:

http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.grassrootsmotorsports.com

You

Are

EVIL.

93celicaGT2 wrote: Click this link to put GRM on this petition to ban vuvuzelas from all sporting events in the US: http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.grassrootsmotorsports.com

repost, this is already on page 1

I say we vote to ban all games of soccer that break out during a Vuvuzela concerts...

neon4891 wrote:

93celicaGT2 wrote: Click this link to put GRM on this petition to ban vuvuzelas from all sporting events in the US: http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.grassrootsmotorsports.com

repost, this is already on page 1

Man... i failed!

neon4891 wrote: I remember my sisters ex got one for New Years 2000, and we were about to shove it up his rectum after 10 minutes

that sounds familiar with the one I had. it had to be hidden out in my garage away from the wife.

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: I say we vote to ban all games of soccer

Fixed it for you.

If a player goes down, grabs his knee and rolls around for a bit in -real- sports, he won't be getting up and running around like nothing happened.

Fake injuries are weak.

Trans_Maro wrote:

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: I say we vote to ban all games of soccer

Fixed it for you. If a player goes down, grabs his knee and rolls around for a bit in -real- sports, he won't be getting up and running around like nothing happened. Fake injuries are weak.

Soccer is the purest sport (except racing). It requires intellegence unlike football where you just memorize plays. There is contact unlike basketball or baseball. It requires more fitness then any of the other sports as you have to run for 90 minutes. I mean have you seen the size of the linemen in football. The only sport which comes close is hockey.

Fake injuries are still weak. There's a lot of play-acting in soccer. One season, I played soccer in a local league with a bunch of Europeans. I also played Ultimate with some of the same guys. The amount of fake injuries, cheap shots and playacting in soccer drove me nuts. The only thing that mattered is what the ref saw. The next year, I played Ultimate several days a week instead.

At least in hockey, the cheap shots and injuries are real.

96DXCivic wrote: Soccer is the purest sport (except racing). It requires intellegence unlike football where you just memorize plays. There is contact unlike basketball or baseball. It requires more fitness then any of the other sports as you have to run for 90 minutes. I mean have you seen the size of the linemen in football. The only sport which comes close is hockey.

I wouldn't call kicking the ball back and forth between midfielders "action".

I saw a couple times where if the player wasn't so concerned about flopping, could have run through the contact and had an excellent chance at a score (you know, where the ball goes into the net and the team gets to put a number higher than 0 or 1 next to the name). My 7 years old girls softball team endures more contact.

Sad thing is that when someone does really get a shot, everyone just assumes they are flopping. Some of those shots gotta hurt.

And the horns, annoying, that is all...

The flopping is part of the sport. If you take contact that is a foul or could be possible seen as a foul, you go down and try to get the ref to call it. This sets up a set play which is the best possible opportunity to score. That is just part of the awareness that a real football player must have. And if the ref doesn't see it, it isn't a foul.

Please stop trying to defend it. Flopping is lame. NASCAR still uses carburetors. It's a part of the sport, nevertheless, lame.

And calling Football players play memorizing robots is myopic. There is clearly no improvisation in the game. I've seen 300 lb. linebackers do things no human that size should be capable of doing.

I don't watch the NBA for the theatrical flops to draw fouls.

Each sport is unique. Lets leave it at that.

Hockey = Fastest sport without an engine! Very little play acting here.

And if you want even more fun, come play Lacrosse.

Cross-checking is allowed!

Shawn

Lets make a boiled egg gun and put them on the side lines , I'm not sure what PSI , but you know just back it off so it's not egg salad shrapnel . Oh and a can of spray lube to keep the pipes clean . WD-40 or what ever you have kicking around.

96DXCivic wrote: It requires more fitness then any of the other sports as you have to run for 90 minutes.

I dunno, I watched a game and they were standing around for some reason or another about every 5 minutes, it seemed.

footinmouth wrote: Lets make a boiled egg gun and put them on the side lines , I'm not sure what PSI , but you know just back it off so it's not egg salad shrapnel . Oh and a can of spray lube to keep the pipes clean . WD-40 or what ever you have kicking around.

I bet if you leave the shells on you can achieve a remarkably high psi and still not end up with egg salad. I am at least willing to try out the prototype once you get it built.

mndsm wrote: Ok, I must be a complete shiny happy person. I saw that the Vuvuzela was available for Android, and immediately downloaded it to piss people off.

Reaching for my phone as I type this.