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Cypress
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Have played both Soccer and North American Football. Didn't need any pads/flack jackets for playing soccer. Got kicked in the shin a time or two. But it was a lot easier than getting hit, forearmed, elbowed, and subjected
to every other sort of bodily insult that comes with playing "real" football. .
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BajaGringo
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Game is over - Mexico wins 2-1.
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squid
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Have played both Soccer and North American Football. Didn't need any pads/flack jackets for playing soccer. Got kicked in the shin a time or two. But it was a lot easier than getting hit, forearmed, elbowed, and subjected
to every other sort of bodily insult that comes with playing "real" football..
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What please is 'real' football'?
Is that the game the Gringo's play in their country and just call it football?
They are playing it with the hands > not the foot.
The ball is not a ball but kinda like a banana.
And if you don't hold the banana in your hands to play """american football""", they are kicking the other guys but? They call it Sport!
And, how funny, the goal is in the second or third floor 
And b/c they had no clou how to play 'real football' they just called their funny game football.
No other country in the world calls a game which is played with the hands >>>> football.
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woody with a view
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yeah squid, the US sucks at football. when was the last time mexico beat spain and dominated brasil for 45 minutes back to back? i'll bet you a box of
your favorite beer that the US goes farther than mexico in the next "copa mundial".
enjoy the win.
what is gonna happen IF the US ever wins in azteca stadium? i'll bet, double or nothing, that there will be blood in the streets...
bring on the REAL football season.  CHARGERS FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!
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BajaGringo
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I am just happy to see the USA field a team that can compete on the world cup level. I remember back when countries would send their second string
team selections and still win easily against the best the USA could field.
I love watching the USA-Mexico matches with friends / family here and we always have a lot of fun with the rivalry...
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lizard lips
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GO CHARGERS--------------
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by morgaine7
Where's Oso? I owe him a liter of Cazadores that I need to win back.
Go Mexico!! 
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Just my luck, I should have bet Oso on these games.
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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LOSARIPES
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woody in ob
yeah squid, the US sucks at football. when was the last time mexico beat spain and dominated brasil for 45 minutes back to back? i'll bet you a box of
your favorite beer that the US goes farther than mexico in the next "copa mundial".
enjoy the win.
what is gonna happen IF the US ever wins in azteca stadium? i'll bet, double or nothing, that there will be blood in the streets...
bring on the REAL football season. CHARGERS FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!
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Mexico spells with a Capital M... Aztec is also spelled with respect just as you spell "the US".
Anyway.... top brass US player Vs. the best of Mexico... 2-1 Mexico....!!! it looks like Mexico is back and as it is speculated, the US may go
further in the world cup but it is all just that: Speculation.
Under the new coach, Mexico has shown great improvement. It would have been a 3-0 US win a few months ago....
Good show... sorry for the gringos... oops!! should I say Gringos?
There will be more games... this is interesting.... that's what the game is all about
Aripes
God bless America
and Baja tambien
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LOSARIPES
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by LOSARIPES
sorry for the gringos... oops!! should I say Gringos?
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Since propriety is that important to you today, you shouldn't be saying either one.
On the other hand, we haven't had a "Gringo--as a derogatory term" thread here for a long time. Maybe it's due for a review.
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No offense intended. Gringo is pretty much a generic term w/o any intention other than to refer to anyone from US-American extraction... OK? see..
the thing is that we can't use the term Unitesdstatian.... (Estadounidense) and the only acceptable term is American... but American is everybody
born in the continent.... so... without intention to offend, the word Gringo come pretty handy. It is just that I'd say.
You are right. I have not read much about the origin of the term in this forum....
Aripes
God bless America
and Baja tambien
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BajaGringo
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Dennis - you and I need to have a face to face about this Gringo obsession. I'll bring the Pacifico's...
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Hook
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My wife and I watched the second half while have lunch at Palominos in Hermosillo. Lots of well-to-do businessmen watching on the big screen.
Then we showed up in tank tops and shorts and sandals and fair skin. We got a few looks; we were WAY underdressed.
Anyway, every time I looked up Mexico was in their attacking zone. I wouldnt be surprised if Mexico spent almost 90% of the second half in front of
the US goalie. The US looked really pathetic.
But what do I know? I'm a baseball fan.
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MrBillM
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A CLOSE Call !
I had been worried that the U.S. "might" win this game.
Such a win "might" encourage more enthusiasm in the U.S. for Soccer But, FORTUNATELY, Mexico saved us from that fate and we can go back to our Blase
dismissal of the sport.
Of Course, we "Probably" could have overcome ONE Win.
Mia Hamm and Company were supposed to light a Wildfire that couldn't be controlled, but that self-extinguished.
A friend pointed out this a.m. that there is a lot of interest in L.A. and some other places and I countered that is because the "Immigrant"
population percentage has increased in those areas.
For the most part, the rest of us aren't interested.
Viva Mexico !
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Bajahowodd
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Mexico obviously needed this win more than did the USA. That being said, and to continue on Bill's idea, I raised kids in the 70's and 80's when there
was a big puch for soccer at the high school level. I have a neighbor whose son just graduated from high school whose major decision on where to go to
college was predicated on the better "soccer" program. Truth be known, the parents are from Germany. My point is that "futbol", despite the efforts of
many over several decades, just doesn't appear to capture the imagination of our citizenry. In a nation that continues to pack stadia to watch
beisbol, I don't know what the answer is.
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U.S. fans weathered storm of hatred in Mexico
| Quote: | The bus carrying U.S. fans to Estadio Azteca from their Mexico City hotel had traveled about 50 yards when it passed a professional-looking,
middle-aged man in a business suit. Who flipped them the bird.
When they arrived at the stadium last Wednesday, police with helmets and riot shields escorted them to the fenced-in visitors' section tucked into the
upper corner of the 105,000-seat concrete bowl. When the U.S. team took a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute of the crucial World Cup qualifier, they were
pelted with drinks. When Mexico equalized 10 minutes later, they were under assault again.
But Rick Rodriguez, a 42-year-old real estate investor who lives in Pacific Beach, expected all that. What he didn't expect: That it would get worse.
“When Mexico scored the second goal,” Rodriguez said of Miguel Sabah's 82nd-minute strike that gave El Tri a 2-1 win, “it was like they opened up a
huge hose of garbage. We were just getting a barrage of stuff thrown at us — beer, food, coins, half-filled soda bottles, garbage, everything you
could imagine. People were going into the fetal position to protect themselves.
“But what really got me was the anger. The look of pure hatred just blew my mind.” Usually at particularly contentious matches around the world,
visiting fans are kept in the stadium by police — sometimes for an hour or more — until the majority of home spectators disperse. This time,
Rodriguez said, the U.S. contingent of 400 or 500 was escorted out immediately. Police linked arms and formed a corridor maybe 40 yards wide to the
buses.
“It ended up being like a funnel,” Rodriguez said. “Every 10 feet we walked, the corridor started getting narrower and narrower, until it got to the
point where it was maybe 8 feet across. Anything they could find was getting thrown at us, and people were getting hit in the head. That's when it got
sketchy. That's when I started getting really worried.” It probably didn't help that, according to Rodriguez, one U.S. fan “mooned” Mexican
supporters and another spit at them.
After the U.S. fans finally reached the buses, police told them to shut the curtains so folks outside wouldn't know who was inside and try to rock the
bus. A few U.S. fans who bravely rode the subway to the game were put in police paddy wagons and driven to safety — among them a San Francisco
photographer whose blog tells a similar story in words and pictures.
Rodriguez's mother and paternal grandparents are from Mexico, but he was born here and supports the U.S. team because, he said, “I think it's (wrong)
to root for a country other than the one you're born in.” He has visited more than 50 countries and followed the U.S. men's team to two World Cups.
This was his first trip to see it in Mexico City. Was it also his last?
“I would go back again if I felt the security was better,” Rodriguez said. “I would definitely consider it. I love the team that much.”
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No soy por ni contra apatía.
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woody with a view
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absolute textbook case of penis envy.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by arrowhead
“But what really got me was the anger. The look of pure hatred just blew my mind.” |
These arn't fans being fans...they're fans being animals. The United States should kiss that game goodby and stick with the home-grown variety. It's
more disgusting when this attitude is brought into US stadiums and the host team is reviled, all in the name of money.
Get rid of the game and get rid of the riff raff that comes with it.
Besides, we have the Oakland Raiders to develop anti-social fan behavior but, at least they're ours. I don't watch them either.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Get rid of the game and get rid of the riff raff that comes with it.
Besides, we have the Oakland Raiders to develop anti-social fan behavior but, at least they're ours. I don't watch them either.
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Oakland Raiders? If I recall, they used to be the L.A. Raiders
What happened, L.A. couldn't come up with a sufficient amount of riff
raff.
Isn't Southern California considered the main riff raff producer in the world.
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JESSE
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Get rid of the game and get rid of the riff raff that comes with it.
Besides, we have the Oakland Raiders to develop anti-social fan behavior but, at least they're ours. I don't watch them either.
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Oakland Raiders? If I recall, they used to be the L.A. Raiders
What happened, L.A. couldn't come up with a sufficient amount of riff
raff.
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woody with a view
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LA didn't have enough pond scum so the raiders went back to Oakland, their original home. if al davis would just die already maybe the new owner could
breathe some life/respect back into the organization.
i remain fully committed to theCHARGER NATION.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woody in ob
i remain fully committed to theCHARGER NATION. |
Is it true they may be moving to Culiacán? Word's out that somebody bought them as a gift for his daughters Quinceañera. She has everything else.
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