Monday, June 19, 2006

Soccer kills

I say the time has long passed to ban this dangerous menace to our health.
World Cup soccer causes joy and despair and even ends marriages but now doctors are studying whether the thrill of it all can be literally heart stopping.

Previous research during international soccer tournaments has found an increase in the general incidence of heart attacks, particularly on days when tense matches have had fans on the edge of their seats.
I could have sworn that people were being bored to death by the stupid, pointless beautiful game, but I guess that's just me. Who knew that a 1-1 tie could be so thrilling?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

if you watch any footage from korea during the french/korea game, you would probably see people dropping dead.
and while i am all for nationalism and cheering on your country, i don't think people should be beating up other people up cause they are "not cheering hard enough" for the team. that is becoming raiderfanesque. (this happened recently too.)