Comments on: NYC World Cup Meetup

NYC World Cup Meetup

Mo Nickels — Thu, 30 May 2002 04:13:06 -0800

I believe I'll be watching the France-Senegal World Cup match at 7:30 a.m. at Nevada Smith's on Third Avenue in NYC on Friday 31 May. Would anyone like to join me?

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 30 May 2002 04:55:39 -0800

love to, but I'll be at work.

In London.

By: bifter

bifter — Thu, 30 May 2002 05:23:35 -0800

Check this for misery:

30/5/2 England v Sweden, kick off 9:30 UK time
30/5/2 Banns being read for my wedding at church in Amersham, attendance compulsory, kick off 10:00 UK time

:-(

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 30 May 2002 05:48:43 -0800

they played this morning ?
and you missed your wedding?

By: bifter

bifter — Thu, 30 May 2002 05:55:57 -0800

Oh yeah, call me a dumbass... ;-)

Sunday of course...

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 30 May 2002 05:58:51 -0800

I'd love to join you as well, Mo, but I'll be attempting and failing to ignore the whole thing* here in Seoul. I'm saturated.

In the last couple of years I've managed to live in Sydney during the Olympics and Seoul during the World Cup, and have little to no interest in either.

I am a bad, bad man, and I deserve to die.

(*except stuff involving Cameroon, who are very groovy for reasons only tangentially related to men kicking balls around.)

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 30 May 2002 06:01:31 -0800

I will be at the Drayton in West Ealing. Doors open 8.30am, with big screen in garden.

Oh yeah. Baby.

By: bifter

bifter — Thu, 30 May 2002 06:03:58 -0800

Harsh :-(

By: lampshade

lampshade — Thu, 30 May 2002 06:39:27 -0800

As in tomorrow AM? I could do that. Half day today and no work tomorrow.

Hell of a way to start the weekend.

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Thu, 30 May 2002 06:57:05 -0800

Go Senegal!

Oh, wait, this is about Soccer? I thought it was going to be a war.

Never mind, then.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Thu, 30 May 2002 07:14:53 -0800

Go Senegal, anyway.

By: rich

rich — Thu, 30 May 2002 07:37:45 -0800

I'd join you, but I'm going to take the day off tomorrow and spend it at the beach. I'll probably bring the TV outside and sit in the sand and watch the game.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Thu, 30 May 2002 07:57:56 -0800

Mo: If you were thinking of laying on transportation..?! Otherwise I'll be in the Hobgoblin on London Road, Brighton.

bifter: You have my deepest sympathies mate...bad, baad timing. You'll be even less pleased to know that my girlfriend & I are marrying next summer so as to avoid World Cup 2002, Euro 2004 and the domestic footie season...a mutual decision, of course;-)

UncleFes: Sometimes one & the same...

By: bifter

bifter — Thu, 30 May 2002 08:18:03 -0800

i_cola: thanks for the sympathy mate... ;-) At least we remembered to book the wedding for the weekend *after* the final...

By: muckster

muckster — Thu, 30 May 2002 08:32:59 -0800

I'm out of town, but I'll be back in NYC for Germany-Ireland on 6/5. How about Zum Schneider?

By: dogmatic

dogmatic — Thu, 30 May 2002 08:41:41 -0800

Join you? maybe.
at Nevada Smith's? no way.

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Thu, 30 May 2002 08:42:36 -0800

I might be able to do Zum Schneider on the fifth, too. Let's see how the work schedule goes.

By: goneill

goneill — Thu, 30 May 2002 08:49:20 -0800

Maybe; I was scheduled to watch in a friend's apartment; but I might be able to drag them there.

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Thu, 30 May 2002 08:58:40 -0800

What's the matter with Nevada Smith's?

By: astro38

astro38 — Thu, 30 May 2002 09:02:39 -0800

bifter: actually England vs Sweden kicks off at 10:30 BST

Maybe you can get them to rush through the ceremony - you can still catch the 2nd half! ;-)

By: i_cola

i_cola — Thu, 30 May 2002 09:11:13 -0800

Mo: Having checked out the Nevada Smith's site, This & this for starters!

Jeez, you get all the freaks in NYC...

By: jonah

jonah — Thu, 30 May 2002 09:12:09 -0800

I'm going to go have lunch down the street today at Koo Koo Roo, anyone want to join me?

By: goneill

goneill — Thu, 30 May 2002 09:24:33 -0800

By: i_cola

i_cola — Thu, 30 May 2002 10:15:41 -0800

...must...resist...urge..to...take...piss...out...of...American...use...of...'game'...instead...of...'match'... ;-)

But best of luck to the Irish...the REAL Keano (Robbie) is a god...

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Thu, 30 May 2002 10:22:20 -0800

jonah: Damn, I'm actually heading down to the Taco Bell. Another time?

By: Fat Buddha

Fat Buddha — Thu, 30 May 2002 10:55:30 -0800

i_cola, there is a very big rumour going around that your God is on his way to Brum. Just thought I'd mention it. Never mind you still have the Balti Kid.

By: jonah

jonah — Thu, 30 May 2002 11:06:06 -0800

Of course eyeball, I'll just post my daily destination here

By: dogmatic

dogmatic — Thu, 30 May 2002 15:31:37 -0800

Nevada Smith's is a real football bar. It's great to watch a game at -- they play lots of games, games that other places don't. It's good to go there and support them because of that. The fans are rowdy which means fun.

Ah ha. That's why. I was confusing the late-evening frat-centric, Kylie Monique-playing club with the early afternoon football pub.

I used to live directly across the street, and always wondered why really loud groups of people would be gathered outside on saturday mornings always trying to wake me up from a deep drunken slumber. Now I understand.

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Thu, 30 May 2002 19:16:00 -0800

I was confusing the late-evening frat-centric, Kylie Monique-playing club with the early afternoon football pub.

Heh heh. Bingo! That's the place. That's why I've never been in the joint except to use the toilet. I picked it for tomorrow morning because a) it's near a client, b) it's near Veselka (so I can get some buckwheat pancakes before the match) and c) because I figured the dumb fucks will be home in bed so us, uh, civilized people can be in the bar at 7:30 a.m.

But I see that I'm wrong about the 7:30 a.m. crowd...

By: anildash

anildash — Thu, 30 May 2002 19:46:55 -0800

I'll join you at Veselka if I'm awake. I probably won't go to Nevada Smith's unless they're playing Kylie. Although I did enjoy their sign out front a few months back: "Ireland vs. Iran: Football Jihad!"

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Thu, 30 May 2002 20:59:28 -0800

Anyone know of a place in san francisco showing the game at 4:30 am? I'm thinking some seedy (real) Mission bar.

By: mlang

mlang — Thu, 30 May 2002 22:10:51 -0800

By: johnny7

johnny7 — Fri, 31 May 2002 00:34:21 -0800

At last one for the antipodeans.
A relaxing 2130 local kick off
Now if only we could get the R&A and the USPGA to shift
those pesky majors around

By: RJ Reynolds

RJ Reynolds — Fri, 31 May 2002 00:51:05 -0800

Must... stay... up... three and a half more hours... zzzz.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Fri, 31 May 2002 02:35:04 -0800

Kylie Monique?! I like it!

Fat Buddha: That would hurt...just 2 seasons after he departed Highfield Road *waaaah!*

Ah well, at least you hate V**** as much as us :-) altho' if you have just signed Lily Savage....jeez...

vacapinta: Mad Dog in the Fog on Lower Haight looks like a possible...

Either that or you could see if The Janitor is having an open house for MeFites...

.::2 hours to go::. *pant* *drool*

By: riffola

riffola — Fri, 31 May 2002 05:07:50 -0800

World Cup is go! Senegal scores the first goal.

By: Summer

Summer — Fri, 31 May 2002 07:18:57 -0800

And Senegal wins. France really fucked up good and proper.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Fri, 31 May 2002 08:06:45 -0800

Got...up...at....four....

I will soon be snoozing with my head on the space bar.

Juan Valdez take me away!

and YAY Senegal!

By: i_cola

i_cola — Fri, 31 May 2002 08:07:29 -0800

Summer: You make it sound like a bad thing ;-)

By: matteo

matteo — Fri, 31 May 2002 08:35:24 -0800

France really fucked up good and proper
Without Zidane, they are a normal team, nothing really special. Djorkaeff isn't up to 90 mins anymore, he got replaced after an hour, they'll cry a lot over the Pires injury, he could have changed the team's destiny if he was fit to play.
Defense is very very slow in the center (LeBoeuf and Desailly, come on), Diouf is so fast he killed them
Probably they should put Thuram in center, put Sylvestre in.
For attack, no problem there: Henry Trezeguet Wiltord, lots of very good men

By: mlang

mlang — Fri, 31 May 2002 08:42:39 -0800

i'm so sick of this france-bashing. it's not like they're the new york yankees. or brazil.

the important thing is that senegal won, not that france lost (and, of course, that zidane is out). any time a former colony 'overthrows' its colonizers, there's cause for celebration.

(that being said, we would, of course, make an exception for any potential brazil-portugal semi-final or final matches.)

By: salmacis

salmacis — Fri, 31 May 2002 08:45:39 -0800

I just wonder if this will make second place in England's group look more attractive than winning it?

By: Yelling At Nothing

Yelling At Nothing — Fri, 31 May 2002 19:56:05 -0800

Every time I imagine a MeFi get together, I picture a bunch who people asking, "So who are you?" Then the other guy has to say something like "I'm stavros, the wonder chicken."

By: muckster

muckster — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:59:41 -0800

Well, given that I watched Germany-Irleand's 1:1 live this morning, I guess there's really not much of an excuse to see it again tonight.