OT: Sepp Blatter Resigning!!!!!!!
Wow. Holy crap!
I guess the question now is this - who will deny the obvious and fill the world sports media with incredible amounts of cognitive dissonance now?
In all seriousness though, I will be very intrigued to see where FIFA goes from here, if indeed it is ever possible to nudge them in a new direction (which, yeah....the money too). That might take a cultural revolution in the sport at large perhaps.
He's rested, ready and willing to serve
Want to make your sport unpopular? Hire Bettman
/s (kind of not really)
LOL - without looking too closely, I though it was Putin. That would be about as popular as hiring Bettman.
but without the genius.
So is he actually going to drink bud light lime and eat mcdonalds all while wearing adidas?
Re-elect me! I am what we need to get out of this mess. This week...I resign. Sounds like the hammer is about to come down on ole Sepp.
Maybe they knew this was coming and he made sure to get re-elected first so a replacement could be appointed rather than elected? I'm just speculating. I have no idea how this process works.
to be indicted. Someone rolled over to save their own ass.
get the World Cup out of Qatar.
...then start working on getting it out of Russia. Anyone up for a repeat of the Sochi Olympics??
New sites:
2018: USA
2022: England
However, the 2022 Olympics are ripe to be moved.
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since we wouldn't have to build anything.
Brazil spent $14b getting ready for the '14 World Cup. Given the Sochi Olympic experience ($50b), just imagine how much money the Russians will bilk out of their citizens for the '18 World Cup.
Know how much the U.S. spent in '94? About $30m.
Granted, that was over 20 years ago, but still way under the norm. Italy spent $5b in '90. France spent $340m in '98. Cheapest World Cup since the turn of the century was South Africa at $4b.
Yep...best ready-made sports infrastructure in the world. God bless America!!
I think it stays in the Land of Tsars and Homophobes.
A World Cup in England? Good Lord, the hooligans would go nuts.
Russia, for all its political issues, remains a plausible host country. It has the resources, stadiums, fan interest and climate. It won't lose the World Cup three years in advance.
Qatar OTOH was utterly implausible from day one and remains so now. Thankfully there are still seven years to go, which is enough time to re-award that WC (and hopefully spare a few thousand slave laborers' lives).
1. It was wrongly awarded via corruption
2. Sochi
OTOH...I suppose it's probably wiser to just let it slide. It would be hard to justify adding even more tension to that relationship over a sporting event...
But to be fair on #1, they aren't the first country to get away with that. Didn't we get away with it for the Salt Lake City Olympics? And Brazil landed the World Cup/Olympic pair at the same time Russia did, which makes you wonder.
We're so corrupt, even the Swiss think we're hiding too much money!
There was a story in today's NY Times about how the $10 million bribe to Warner was in some way authorized or even transferred by Blatter's top lieutenant, Jerome Valcke:
Apparently, this may have hit too close to home. Blatter is on the list, no doubt, they just don't have t's crossed and i's dotted to get a warrant yet.
Add lyrics to the FIFA theme song, "Let's embezzle the money, Get apartments for all of our cats"
DANCING
CLAPPING
YAY
YAY
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Yes
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Figo will restore balance to the Force. All will soar with THE KNOWLEDGE that FIFA might get a little bit better. Or even a lot better!
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YES
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I nominate Vladimir Putin.
So how much of a buyout does Notre Dame owe Sepp Blatter?
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You're, or you are, not very bright. I think that is what you were looking for.
Yet in the same exact sentence at the same exact time says "your" instead of "you're."
Jesus, you just made this whole blog dumber.
Just let it go man.
well then your dumb.
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you seem to comment alot on threads you don't give a shit about
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He is a celebratory .gif treasure trove.
He went through the process of being elected so he could name his successor.
Bepp Slatter
Thank you Sepp for this wonderful opportunity. I am your President.
True. God invented FIFA so that even the NCAA would have someone to be appalled by.
FIFA then the IOC then FIDE (that the Federation Internationale d'Eches - Chess world governing body) and then NCAA - yes, I know it is hard to believe but the Olympic body and FIDE are actually more messed up and at times could rival FIFA for their overt graft and corruption - which shows it is really something that just can happen to any world body.
Meh.
His high-powered team of litigants will defeat any impending chages. He'll then move to Switzerland, where he undoubtedly has a ton of money hidden deep within nebulous bank accounts.
Wait...what? He's Swiss? Oh. That's convenient.
aren't what they used to be. Their government rolled over and forced the banks to disclose foreign account holders to the US.