Fun Late-Night Activities: Factchecking Deadspin

I would post this in the comments on Deadspin but, well, I can't.

We have here a weekend post about crazy footysoccer. A little bit of the Google would've revealed that it's not Bayern Munich, but Cologne v. Dulsberg. And the video is from 2005. The best response I've got is that it makes me thankful that Lingering Bursitis had the good sense to bring all of us loons together to create UF.

Anyway, don't forget that our liveblog action of the Confederations Cup starts on Sunday. The NY Kid has South Africa v. Iraq (9:55 am EST) and I've got Spain v. New Zealand (2:25 pm EST). We'll be liveblogging the rest of the matches as well.

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Oops

Our B/C ratio—that's Bullshit to Content—has been getting a little out of kilter lately as we've been occupied sending each other more links worth blogging about than we've actually spent time writing about them.

Well, it's caught up with us this week. Hey, the financial world's ratios are getting whacked around, so who would we be if we weren't participating symbolically? Yeah, weak. I wouldn't buy it either. But promise we were totally all over this story about a guy with a broken leg foot coming off the bench to hit the winner for Pontiliw FC against Pontarddulais Town near Swansea (pretty sure those were made up names, Pontiliw and Pontarddulais not Swansea, pulled from some Harry Potter fanfic until I found one of them on the map above).

Too bad for about the third time this week, Rick Chandler over at Deadspin, beat us to the punch on something so thoroughly bloggeriffic. This is what you get for being lazy. Or that's what they get for having the ability to pay people for blogging (we just do it for the chicks).

So yeah. Some guy with a broken foot pulled off his cast, came off the bench, and hit a game winner before throwing up and was subbed out for a couple of minutes later. Still, pretty manly.

At least we've got artwork that's Welsh-germane and we're not adorning our post with a pic of John Terry. If we can't be fast we can at least pull maps that are relevant.

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Monday Was Becks Manning Day

If you needed any more proof that David Beckham would endorse anything and everything under sun, look no further.



Well, it's not exactly accurate. Deadspin was presented by Beck's, the beer not the walking billboard, but Bigus provided this nice little mock up.

Fear not loyal readers, since Lingering Bursitis is away on vacation, we are free to write about Beckham without fear of reprisal.

Yesterday marked the revealing of the 2009 Beckham calendar. Wonderful. Just what a I need Beckham 365. We should send one to LB for his birthday.



That's his Colt Magnum look.



Newsie.

More to be found at Kickette.

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