"Can you feel it!?"…..1-0…."Oh my God!..Oh my God!!"….2-0……"Lookout!..Lookout!!"……3-0 ……"Oh nooo!!"…4-0….."don't do it, don't do it!!……5-0….."Will somebody stop the damn match?..enough's enough!!…..6-0…"I think he's dead!!!" ……"What else is going to happen tonight?!! ……. 7-0…"Ah, you son of a bitch!..why?!!.." That was hillarious Poeman. In addition to the commentary, I literally cried laughing at the "sound effects" of the goals..
Checked google news. Saw a huge explosion in the first headline's picture and thought it was probably Brazilians rioting. Turned out to just be the Israelis/Palestinians.
https://twitter.com/GRRM/status/486607034050420738 George R.R. Martin @GRRM Spoiler Alert! I wrote the script for this World Cup game. 4:25 PM - 8 Jul 2014
I also saw that Jim Ross remix and was going to post it. Pretty funny. They lined it up well. Those numbers have to be off. 7 goals in a WC match is pretty rare, but those are not comparable. 7 goals in soccer != 14 goals in an NHL game or 430 in an NBA game. What was unique about this one, to me, was that the 7 goals were scored against one of the top sides in the world on their home turf. The 2010 World Cup had a 7-0 game. This World Cup had a 4-1, a 5-1, another 4-1, and a 5-2
Well I know 14 goals have been reached in an NHL game more than just a couple of times, the record is 16 in a game and the Rangers were beat 15-0 way back when. The 22 runs in a MLB game is probably low since 25-30 runs have been reached 20 or so times. NFL is probably twice what it should be though, 60-70 would sound right. NBA numbers would be way too high even for both teams combined. The writer probably did a little research for the NHL and MLB numbers and then got lazy and fudged the NFL and NBA numbers.
Hi Stokes 7 goals in soccer is really rare. Typically teams score 2-3 goals at most. 4 and up are rare. You can do the math on your own. I would just multiply common score in NFL, NBA and NHL by a factor of 3 and find out what equivalent it makes. If your typical NBA game has one team scoring 90 points, NBA equivalent of 7 goals in soccer would be 270 points. Do I make sense?
The issue is that far fewer World Cup games are played. So the numbers are completely off base. If someone put out those numbers, they were incorrectly researched. So 16 goals is the record for the NHL over thousands and thousands of games. 7 goals in a World Cup match has been done each of the past two World Cups, and there's 64 games per World Cup. Just following up on it because no one responded to it. All the comparisons are not even remotely close if you compare how often a team scores 7 in the World Cup vs. how often the other scores happen (the NBA one is impossible. Even with two high tempo teams and one team shooting the lights out, teams never top 160 nowadays, let alone 400). If you put an NBA team against a college team, they still wouldn't score 400. In soccer, you could have a team score 10 goals if they completely outclass the other. In the World Cup, though, Tahiti and the San Marino Islands (and many other island nations) aren't in it, so you don't have that. 4+ has happened 5 times this year alone. Yes, the most likely scores are 0-3, but you have a few times each World Cup that a team nets 5+ in a match.
I think what the guy did was just take average points per game in various leagues and say since 7 is roughly 3x the WC average of goals per game, everything else should be multiplied by 3 as well. The problem is that doesn't work. Basketball and football were terrible comparisons anyway because they have a lot of points scored. It's a lot easier to triple a hockey score than triple a basketball score. If you wanted to do it as just triple per team (as opposed to tripling the total combined points) you'd be looking at: Scoring 7 in a World Cup match would be like an NBA team scoring 300 (too high), an NFL team scoring 72 (too high), an MLB team scoring 12 runs in a game (this is too low, should be 15 or so, but I just did triple), or an NHL team scoring 8 goals in a game (probably about right. Only happens a few times a season). ESPN has never been good with numbers. JStokes mentioned QBR. For a long time, QBR rated a mediocre Charlie Batch 2 INT game as the best QB game ever recorded. After a year or so, one of the morons there finally noticed and they then deleted a bunch of games from the all-time QBR top 10. I actually posted a thread here when I saw the all-time QBR ratings, but it looks like that thread has been deleted, along with thousands of other old threads. You can find stuff about it if you search the Internet: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/2000211-sports-and-racing-nfl/64133981 According to ESPN, Charlie Batch has the highest single game QBR rating of all time -- a perfect 100. Here is the list. http://espn.go.com/nfl/qbr/_/year/0/type/alltime-game However, here is his line in that game: 12/17, 186 yards, 10.9 AVG, 3 TD, 2 INT http://espn.go.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=300926027
http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/20...s-unravels-singapores-anti-soccer-betting-ad/ SINGAPORE—Germany’s stunning 7-1 win over Brazil in Tuesday’s World Cup semifinal dispensed delirium and despair to fans from both nations. In Singapore, the result has left advertisers red-faced over an unwittingly prescient campaign. Over the past month, Singaporeans have been subjected to melancholic television ads and posters featuring young “Andy,” a fictional but troubled boy whose savings were used by his father to bet on Germany’s crowning as world soccer champions. “I hope Germany wins,” Andy says when his friends ask who he thinks would win the World Cup. “My dad bet all my savings on them.” Commissioned by Singapore’s National Council on Problem Gambling, the ad was meant to “deter gamblers from gambling irresponsibly during the World Cup,” according to local ad agency Goodfellas, which produced the campaign. But as Die Nationalmannschaft crushed the Seleção in record-breaking fashion, soccer-mad Singaporeans quickly surmised that Andy’s dad was better off keeping his bets on the table. “Looks like the boy’s father who bet all his savings on Germany will be laughing all the way to the bank!” Singapore’s Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin wrote on his Facebook page during the semifinal. At halftime, with Germany leading five-nil, broadcasters ran the commercial again, reminding viewers of the worldly riches that may spring from a well-placed bet. Images and comments lampooning the ad promptly went viral on social media. “This ad has given hope to all gamblers!” a Facebook user named Sieg Delacroix wrote. Others, meanwhile, learned a lesson in filial piety. “Always trust your father,” wrote popular blogger Lee Kin Mun, who goes by the name “mrbrown.”
halftime stats: 52% ToP for Argentina 2-1 shots for Argentina 3-1 corners for Argentina 1 yellow card, to Martins Indi
They were still showing a replay as Robben made a good run :lol: I hear the announcers saying "and there's Robben!" I'm like "What?"
