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Until the 7-1 Maracanazo II Germany put up against Brazil last year, I'd never seen a home, World Cup crowd so stunned and saddened by a World Cup game outcome as on that day when Italy opened up the floodgates near stoppage time in that 2nd extratime in that 2006 semifinal.

None of the soccer-specific stadia in this country are large enough to host World Cup matches.Maybe for practices and scrimmages can America's SSS be used for the a World Cup. For example, for all the lore the Home Depot StubHub Center has, the more likely World Cup stadium in Southern California would be Pasadena's Rose Bowl or the new, LA-area NFL mega-stadia which will exist by the next decade.* *we all know this is a lie

How's about this; the NHL announces two expansion teams because it wants so damn badly to have those stupid Coyotes stay in Desertland, and is hellbent on never being proven wrong on the obvious.

FIFA is many things. Anti-American is not one of them. FIFA was openly praising the US ratings for the last World Cup.Rumor also has it that such ratings praise could lead to FIFA awarding the United States the 2026 World Cup*, in celebration of America's 250th birthday. *on the contingency that the USSF pays a handsome amount to FIFA officials and supplies their own slave workers from Latin America to build stadiums funded 100% by taxpayers to be used only for one summer month, of course

These are the kinds of banners you'd see for franchises who've won a championship, maybe two, tops. But hey; management has to find someway, anyway, to bring Devils fans to Newark this season.

American colleges and universities.

"Today we salute you, Mr. Triple-Lockout Overseeing Moron." "Mr. Triple-Lockout Overseeing Moron!!!"

A full 28% of their games have ended in overtime or shootout losses. They have the same number of wins as Buffalo.

So Ottawa is Canada's Los Angeles, I see...

Is it fair game for the Sabres to make fun of South Beach when a Katrina-like storm wipes out the greater-Miami area because of climate change?

Not before San Pedro Sula, Honduras submits its own expansion bid!

I'll give them a pass since it was a Tuesday. If this were a Saturday game, Buffalo fans would make homemade snow plows out of their Chevy trucks and house roofs to get to the Sabres game. Florida fans, meanwhile, wouldn't sell out their place on their own if it was the Stanley Cup Final on a Saturday and it was 85°F.

They called that 10,010 people. I call that bull The Panthers are releasing their attendance figures in binary now. If that's binary, then only 18 people showed up to the game. The rest are either cardboard Fatheads of the same fans or robots posing as human beings.

This sounds like the 2015 sports universe portrayed in "Back to the Future II," only that it actually does come true.

I think I found the source of it:

"That attendance is too damn high!"

This just takes the meanings of 'high-sticking,' 'crosschecking,' 'roughing' and 'boarding' to a whole, other dimension...

So about Florida's "Hispanic Heritage Night," here's the game-winning call in Spanish: http://deadspin.com/even-hockey-highlights-are-better-when-called-by-spanis-1653530376

The real unpopular opinion would be for someone to approve of these Phoenix monstrosities:

"Funding for this National Hockey League game is made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."

Nothing says 'Hispanic Heritage' like a sport invented by Canadians, in a league virtually no Latinos know about, in a region in America also known as "God's Waiting Room," between teams in which even serious fans of the sport have no interest in.

You know your team is particularly bad when the current Oilers and Sabres field better squads than yours. *snicker*

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I don't know how much of an unpopular opinion that really is. For everything visually-bizarre of the Picasso-'Yotes look, it did scream 1990s to everyone. It was one of the best looking styles from that decade in the NHL, and very fitting for the Phoenix region. Then they Glendaleified their logos to be one of the worst in the entire league.