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US vs. Italy

6 minute mark: Long bouts of nothing happening that have characterized the first five minutes of the match continued in the sixth minute of the game.

17 minute mark: More minutes of non-excitement were broken by an actual shot on goal! Thrilling!

22 minute mark: Ahhh, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... the Italians score! It's 1-nil. Very sad, very sad. Fortunately, it was only a 1 point goal, not one of the newfangled three-point shots.

28 minute mark: Gooooalllllllllllllllllllllllllllll! Zaccardo comes through to tie the game at 1! Serious excitement for, oh, at least 30 seconds there.

40 minute mark: Still more non-exciting bits where nobody scored and the ball got kicked around a lot. Riveting.

58 minute mark: Something happened, it's... oh... wait. Nope. Nothing. Sorry, thought something was going to happen there.

74 minute mark: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

90 minute mark: Game over. Oh wait, no. Extra time or some such. Not overtime, just extra. Continued extensive quantities of nothing going on.

93 minute mark: Game over. Officially this time.

90 plus minutes and the game ends in a tie. Wow, that rocks.

Yeah, I really can't figure out why this sport isn't catching on better in the U.S.

Labels: Sports