Fish fry
September 17 - 2007
From Sky Sports comes news of an Albanian man who, angered by his national team’s loss to the Netherlands, set his fish delivery van on fire. Fair enough, but when firefighters arrived at the scene, they found their truck had been emptied of water by citizens desperate to escape Albania’s national water shortage. The delivery van burnt to the ground.
In my opinion, this confluence of events should result in an immediate state department travel advisory: “American citizens should be on the look out for bat-shit craziness when visiting Albania.” That Albanian citizens would drain a firetruck is one level of crazy - that they have citizens who would stake their livelihood on a result against the Dutch is quite another.
Here’s Mario Melchiot on the receiving end of that craziness, Ruud Van Nistelrooy dishing up some craziness of his own, and stunned Albanian fans thinking about setting fish delivery vans on fire:
Also, be sure not to let your day end before checking out Awful Announcing’s, positively unreal Rob Stone clip.
Just caught this piece of funny news from du Nord:
“In a stunning move Mexico is going to ditch their traditional green shirts. They will wear white from now on, and red as an alternate. The reason given was from coach Hugo Sanchez: “In my opinion, our green is confusing with the pitch - as grass is green. It looks like there are less players on the field.”
You know what this means? It means that the d-bags in Sam’s Army will be wearing Mexico colors. Red shirts by country:
US: 0
Mexico: 1
Genius.
Comment by Nordy — September 18, 2007 @ 10:47 am
I was all set to make a green shirt/landscaping joke which bordered on the ethnically insensitive. Thank God I avoided that pitfall.
Comment by garth — September 19, 2007 @ 1:39 am