Sports injures

Being that soccer hasn't discovered the golf cart to carry injured players off the field, I propose that FIFA hire clowns to carry the stretcher.  I dislike clowns as much as the next guy, but it would just be too funny to watch the clowns put the stretcher down next to an injured player, only to pick up the soccer ball, place it on the stretcher, and walk off the field.

Update:  Today I realized what gave me the idea for this.  I stole it from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

Who says Monday isn't good for sports?

First off, hello everyone! I'm Matthew and I will be joining Joey here as a writer at The Bandwagon. I will try to cover topics that Joey may miss and try to provide a counterpoint to him as well. Now, on to the actual post!

Traditionally Monday is usually a dead day for sports, especially during the summer months. The races are done on Sunday, a lot of baseball teams are off, and the golf tournaments have completed. Not this Monday. As I write this, Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate are going at each other in the only 18-hole playoff in professional golf, after Woods hit an amazing putt on the 72nd hole yesterday to send it into extra time. While that is going on, over on ESPN a great soccer game is about to begin. Thanks to the genius who does programming over there they now air the major European tournaments live. If you're willing to do a little channel flipping, sometimes there are some good sports on on Mondays.

Everyone else football

Even with training camp and arena football going on you might find that you still want football.  Nothing will quench your thirst for football, but soccer can distract you for long enough.  The Euro Cup has been going on for over a week now, and other than wanting to buy my parents dog a Bucs jersey, I haven't really thought of it.  The games might be low scoring but it more than makes up for it with a lack of commercials.  There's no need to watch a commercial for a girl drink that is trying to be "hard" when everyone else football is on the tv.

One of the few things better than a corner kick is listening to Jim Rome bitch about how he hates soccer.  What's that, Jim?  Your show isn't going to be on at all this week because of soccer, a sport you hate.  I'm sorry soccer isn't as exciting as golf, Jim, but some sports require you to not smoke and drink while you play them.  I don't even know if Jim Rome is really big into golf but today he was bitching about soccer then started talking about golf.  I don't have any problems with golf, I just don't think someone that makes a living talking about sports should ignore the most popular sport in the world.

Europe, keep turning out great soccer players to entertain me, and keep wearing those scarves.  You're like the cousin that went to art school then moved to NYC.