Excuses Excuses

If Japan was in charge, he would ask everyone to take off their shoes before entering the stadium, players included.

@Spiclypeus it gives us an idea of what will happen during the Olympic Games. Cleanest games ever!

@Belgianfish
Nah. I'm sure there'll be plenty of corruption.

Maybe we can get Japan to come over to a few other countries and help teach the environmentalists how to clean up after themselves when they protest?

That would be really nice and greatly appreciated by all of us 'dirty ignorant anti-environment' types all over the world who have to spend our time and money cleaning up after them every time they run off the save the environment from us.

After all, If they really are for environmental protection and cleanliness couldn't they at least learn clean up their crap before they leave, right?

@Thecustodian Not really relevant, but you reminded me of this https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/79/fa/7179fa540215ebbe7da51866b0c3d005.gif

Props for Japan for keeping everything clean and tidy. Everyone else should follow suit.

Also, waiting for the Sweden comics

@dudemanbro actually everyone was so impressed (and I guess a little bit embarrassed) that other fans and teams started following the example and tidying up)

In Japan cleaning up after yourself is considered very important. workers help clean up their workplace at the end of the day, schoolkids help clean the school grounds, etc. from birth to death the importance of cleaning up after yourself tends to be emphasized. so i'm not surprised the athletes and fans helped out.. that is what they would have done back in japan. it is only the juxtaposition with cultures that don't do that that makes it seem odd.

@mithril I wish more people in the world would follow Japans example.

Football: 22 fullygrown men/women that runs around ti Catch a ball and kick it away and gets paid MILLIONS for it

@Katsurai In America, we get paid to hold on to the ball only until we reach a patch of grass, and then we brutally kick it over what is essentially a giant two-headed pole.

@Ytterbius5000 Yeah.It's kinda weird.

@Katsurai Hey! American Football is the best! It's the toughest, the grandest, the greatest sport that was ever...

uh...

what was I talking about?

Damn short term memory loss.

@txag70 Ok then

@txag70 "I don't know why a nation priding itself on its manliness needs to strap on thirty pounds of protective padding just to play Rugby." (approximate).
https://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/comments/2ugrc8/giles_quote_relevant_to_the_superbowl/

@rentechie I actually play rugby here too and couldn't agree more. The above comment was related to the CTE issues the NFL has been having in recent years. Heck, my short term memory actually does suck and I played over a decade of football growing up (primarily in the trenches where your head gets hit almost every play)

@Katsurai
Because it's an industry worth billions. So as a major factor in that industry, the star players are compensated appropriatly. If you were a major factor instead of an easily replacable small cog in your company that is making hundreds of millions each year then you'd want a decent share of that, too.

Plus national team players aren't even rewarded that well for their games. Compared to what they earn in their respective clubs the games for the national teams aren't even worthy to be called peanuts.

It's really easy: if you have outstanding skills in a field that can be turned into money in some way, then you can sell those skills for a high sum. No matter if it's arts, sports, IT, whatever. And you'd be an idiot not to demand a proper share.

@Narf Ok. Still Think it's stupid

@Katsurai *sees the flag under your avatar* Salty much?

@LuxVertas What? No. I've Always found Soccer a stupid sport. I don't care about the tournament

At least Japan made it to the world cup. Here in Romania all the footballers are vampires; i'm not kidding, they really suck.

@dlaV The years of Hagi are long gone and those years will not come back any time soon.

Japan: At least I’m not like China.
China: Hey, I invented football!
Japan: And you still don’t go to World Cup.

@JTTWloverchinese China invented many, many things but football isnt one of them : )

@LordBollock Whatever you want to believe. Search “Legendary soccer kid”.

@JTTWloverchinese I enjoyed that,thanks! Wasnt actually playing football though, was he? But its only a game after all. A game invented in England.

@LordBollock Well, it was a prototype. A mixture of volleyball and the football we see today.

France won! Ok bye

@DanishPride
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"when it comes to sport fans, it really could be either."

Det kunne det, ja, men i SATW-serien er stereotyper et dominerende element, og den stereotypiske fodboldfan er af hankøn. ;)

@EricTheRedAndWhite You do have a point... Yeah, I guess your right. I guess this kinda got my attention because I'm a girl and a BIG fan of football

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Ja, dass ist so.

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