World Cup 2010 Blog: “The US World Cup Bid Video (Narrated By Morgan Freeman, Obviously)” plus 1 more

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The US World Cup Bid Video (Narrated By Morgan Freeman, Obviously) Posted: 24 Sep 2010 10:30 AM PDT I’d just like to explain something for those not from the States: Morgan Freeman narrates absolutely everything in the US. Everything. It’s a little-known rule his spoken presence to all things video been added as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution and he’s so omnipresent most Americans wake up from dreams with the sudden urge to watch March of the Penguins. Rumors even suggest Chuck Norris can woo the Sirens, but goes mute around Morgan Freeman. However, they really dropped the ball by not concluding this video in classic Morgan Freeman form: Pretty please…[dramatic pause]…pretty please. I mean really dropped it. (And, oh yes, the United States would like the World Cup – like everybody else.)

FIFA: South Africa Was ‘Best World Cup Ever’ Posted: 24 Sep 2010 06:10 AM PDT Much like UEFA’s official match reports, FIFA’s general quotations are laden with bullshit. Sepp’s the galaxial high chief of clowndom, which has been well documented, but it trickles down the organization like some sort of maple from hell, clinging to all in a slow-moving avalanche of inevitability. Their stance that this was the standard-bearer for all future World Cups might just fall under this effect. Speaking after a wrap-up meeting in Johannesburg of the board of South Africa’s 2010 local organising committee (LOC) Valcke said South Africa had set ‘the bench mark for future World Cups’. ‘This was rated as the best World Cup ever. It was a fantastic success and Brazil who host the 2014 know they will have a lot of work to do to match South Africa,’ he was quoted by the South African Press Association as saying. ‘But we have time to help Brazil host as good if not better event,’ he added. Best what exactly? Best football? Because it surely wasn’t. Best organization? The empty stadiums would seem to disagree. Best refereeing? George Best? Best buy? What? Best job of lining FIFA’s wallets? Well, we might have a winner there, even if we may never know – it’s at least the most plausible theory, since it’s difficult to see just how this World Cup was the best from an overall or majority standpoint. The last quote is more warning than anything: Brazil’s going to have to make it rain.

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