Tim Howard Stands on His Head, Team Falls Short In Front of Him. (Sound Familiar?)

Way too soon to be flashing back to the Cup Final already, but that's the only thing I could think of, watching yet another team I root for falling short in front of a goaltending performance for the ages. Just another wasted effort from a dude who literally could not have done anything more to keep his team in a game they should never have been in for long enough for them to get lucky one time. It's a damn shame.

Seriously though, less than 2 minutes into the game Timmy's on his ass stopping break away. From that point on you kinda had an idea of how this game was gonna go. Kinda the way the Rangers knew from the start of the series that they would have their work cut out for them with the Kings, but somehow they stayed in long enough to make it interesting.

I guess what i'm saying is that the United States is out of the World Cup, and i'm probably gonna go back to watching soccer only very infrequently and not for any reason other than that nothing else is on TV at the time. But soccer fan or not, you're not really a person if you're not sick for Tim Howard. Just the fact alone that he could stay out there and not just walk off the field as he watched his boys run around kicking at air is a testament to the human spirit or whatever. You can bet your house that if that's me out there, i'm gone after Wonderlowski whatever the fuck his name is misses that wide open net. Wouldn't even come out for extra time. I'd give Jergs my goalie gloves and go get fucked up in Rio. But Howard came out and was fucking awesome except for 2 goals that he really had no chance on anyway. If the US win that game, Tim Howard would have gotten the Oshie treatment, and he would have deserved every second of it.



PS: I love how people are getting upset now that our best athletes aren't playing soccer. Like how if LeBron James had just gotten into soccer as a kid, all of our World Cup woes would end. Fuck off. I don't know about you, but i'm not putting my kid on a soccer team. No way. We're just gonna keep putting our kids in tee ball.

PSS: How is tee ball even a sport? How is that the bridge to baseball for young kids? That's like a version of hockey with no goalie and you start with the puck on the goal line of an empty net and you have to try to score on that net. How lazy is that shit??