I thought soccer/football (for the non-ordained and uninitiated) was and is a pretty boring game (even more boring than baseball), until I watched the rerun of the end of what I think was a FIFA championship game in Madrid in 2010.
There were at least 20 different types of man hugs, including: group hugs, the side hug, the sandwich hug, the awkward tall and small hug (when one of them has his nose planted into the armpit or belly of the other), the full-on-slow-dancing hug, and the hug-release-hug-release and hug-one-more-time hug. Along with the hugs, there was a combination of butt slapping, back and butt slapping, hair petting, lice grooming, double-barrel-side-to-side cheek-to-cheek air kissing, back-of-head slapping, hand shaking, knuckle-grinding, face squeezing, bald-and-nearly-bald head rubbing, full-face kissing, and cup kissing (the trophy – not the uniform accessory).
To top it off, there was hand-wringing, crying (sad and happy), flag flagellation, ground kissing, liquid squirting, praying, crossing, prostrating, and ground flopping.
All in all, it was very exciting stuff. Don't watch the games. Watch the championship celebrations!
Loren M. Lambert © March 24, 2013
There were at least 20 different types of man hugs, including: group hugs, the side hug, the sandwich hug, the awkward tall and small hug (when one of them has his nose planted into the armpit or belly of the other), the full-on-slow-dancing hug, and the hug-release-hug-release and hug-one-more-time hug. Along with the hugs, there was a combination of butt slapping, back and butt slapping, hair petting, lice grooming, double-barrel-side-to-side cheek-to-cheek air kissing, back-of-head slapping, hand shaking, knuckle-grinding, face squeezing, bald-and-nearly-bald head rubbing, full-face kissing, and cup kissing (the trophy – not the uniform accessory).
To top it off, there was hand-wringing, crying (sad and happy), flag flagellation, ground kissing, liquid squirting, praying, crossing, prostrating, and ground flopping.
All in all, it was very exciting stuff. Don't watch the games. Watch the championship celebrations!
Loren M. Lambert © March 24, 2013
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