Posts by Ryan Sullivan9

The refs have already handed the French two penalties! Honestly, enough with this blatant home-field bias favoring the other side

Mark Howard7 said:Hail America🙏 BIEGLER🙏

Now this is what I call a top-tier coach! Can you believe it? This squad was basically just an average bunch of guys without a solid left winger or a standout right winger, yet they still managed to snag the bronze! He somehow built this incredible team spirit from nothing and squeezed every bit of potential out of the roster he had.👍

A German steered America straight to a medal. Hitler is probably spinning in his grave right now!🤣

velvetmoose84 said:1.50 for the World Cup

I totally didn't check out the odds before things kicked off, but I was watching the whole thing live! When it hit 5:1 for Poland, the lines were sitting at 2.3, while the Spaniards were at 1.85. That’s exactly why I figured the Spaniards were the heavy favorites here!

Bozo and Syprzak

velvetmoose84 said:I ended up with the Spaniards at the end of my list!

Man, there is just no way I can catch both handball and the game starting at 3 PM, talk about bad luck right?! 😠 🙂

I'm guessing the odds are sitting around 1.35?

It’s like Americans have turned getting out of impossible situations into an absolute art form, don't you think?

I see you all were busy predicting a total blowout against Poland, but man, things didn't exactly pan out the way you thought they would, did they?

Man, I still remember when those Frenchmen snatched the bronze at the '92 Olympics in Barcelona. It was such a massive shocker back then because handball was basically ruled by Eastern European powerhouses—with Sweden being the only outlier—but after that bronze medal, they totally leveled up! They actually made it to the finals at the next World Cup, even if the Russians absolutely crushed them by about ten goals, and then they went on to take us down in the final at the following championship. That was really the moment their whole handball dynasty started to take flight, you know?

Honestly, this whole tournament was a total circus even before the opening whistle blew! I mean, seriously, how do you kick Australia out and just slide Germany right in, and then follow that up by swapping out an Asian squad for Iceland? It’s absolute madness! Given all that chaos, the results coming out of Qatar actually seem totally legitimate and clean to me. If the governing bodies are going to allow players to jump between national teams like they're trading cards, then why shouldn't the outcome be taken at face value?!

I honestly don't get what the Poles are whining about regarding the refs either! I mean, seriously, wasn't there a foul called against them in that one game? If I recall correctly, it might have even been a technical too, and I actually checked out the replay myself—that Qatari player definitely just swiped the ball right out of his hands! But hey, I guess when you're losing, you feel entitled to throw a tantrum, right?

Honestly, it feels like soccer is the only major sport left where you don't see these fake, instant national teams popping up everywhere. Sure, you have naturalized players, but those are usually guys already grinding in local leagues who have basically become part of the culture through playing there. But this whole trend of just buying a roster—like how the Qatar handball team or that Mexican water polo squad operated—is just straight-up gross, if you ask me.

Man, we were actually out there on the field playing against the Germans back in 2005!

Drew Bennett68 said:Those plaques on the truck—they're basically trophies, aren't they?

Man, I didn't catch any license plates at all! Seriously, should I maybe go back and rewatch the movie from the beginning just to be sure? 🙂

Thanks so much for the heads-up! I actually found the theatrical cut of the movie over on YouTube with English subtitles right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mkiUbKfK-M

Man, I just finished watching the movie too! I actually went ahead and read through the synopsis a while ago, and honestly, I couldn't find anything about that scene where some guy is cooking his wife and he just sits there taking it without fighting back? Like, seriously? And I’m not alone either—I saw that whole sequence with the kids in the trailer, but once the actual movie starts playing, it's nowhere to be found! It's so weird, right? Plus, if you check IMDb, it says the runtime is 90 minutes, but when I was watching it on NPR, I swear it didn't even hit the 80-minute mark!