Updated throughout the day with quick takes from staff.
The rosters for the World Cup are trickling out, the preparations are underway, and you're busy inventing new illnesses to suffer from in order to call into work before going to the bar for the day's games. I recommend mononucleosis as a classic with a long time frame and good brand presence. (Plus you'll make people think you're actually getting some. DOUBLE SCORE.)
What you're missing is a proper pump-up video. Let's have the BBC solve that problem for you right now.
Animals fighting. Soaring African vocals. Tense sizzling synth noises as buildup. Kids in Ivorian Drogba kits. Road flares held aloft. A ball hitting the back of the net in slow motion. A month from now, it all starts. If you need us in the meantime, I'll be throwing heavy objects through windows and dancing continuously to "Shosholoza."
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Bono handwanked.
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I'm Banana dammit!!!
by BurritoBrosShits on May 11, 2010 3:27 PM EDT reply actions
I stocked up on road flares already
I’ll try my best to light them outside the bar…
but I can’t make any promises.
on the west coast our football is WAC
by christoff on May 11, 2010 3:48 PM EDT reply actions
June 12th
Can’t get here quick enough.
"It’s not Disneyland, people. Get the hell out of the way." NYC Firefighter
by jokastrength on May 11, 2010 3:50 PM EDT reply actions
If You're Gonna Dance
You have to do the official dance of the 2010 World Cup, the Diski Dance.
It’s part traditional African, part soccer-influenced, and it is all awesome.
"That's like something out of the Nazis!"
by Hashiell Dammit on May 11, 2010 4:13 PM EDT reply actions
June 11th
can’t get here quick enough. But June 12th is going to be EPIC…..
or horrible with 5 goals by Rooney
Tonight, tonight the strip's just right,
I wanna blow 'em all out of their seats.
We're callin' out around the world, we're going racin' in the street.
-the Boss
by diego tutweiler on May 12, 2010 11:17 AM EDT reply actions
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