US-Costa Rica, the snow (R): FIFA ruling: the result stands!

enough with the shitty snow puns. at least the team can forget about sporting news and enjoy a hard fought victory, with hopefully some team building dividends to boot.

 

Or the terrible ice down South.

 

I can only think of the Rapids and Chivas USA playing a game like this in front of 17 people.

 

The Snow Fro Bowl

 

The German press already got the perfect name for it: der Schneeschlacht (battle in the snow).

Can't improve on that.

 

This was an embarrassment for soccer:

Lost in Paradise: U.S. gets beaten and pelted

We complained, but the result stood.

 

Most memorable game I've ever attended, and easily one of the most fun, and I was wearing shorts. I should hope this helps our chances in Denver of more games, even in March, where 75 and sun is just as likely as a snowstorm (also folks, please, this wasn't a blizzard).

 

Was that Monica Gonzalez helping with the snow at the end? They drafted everyone!

 

Here's a name for this game. Since folks are posting pictures of the abominable snowman from Rudolph, why not call it "The Bumble Ball".

 

[x] Raucous home crowd
[x] Cold, wind, snow
[x] Altitude to prepare for Azteca match

As someone who has spent a lot of time in Denver and the mountains just West, snow in late March is an expected, normal occurrence, and cold is a certainty. The USSF knew exactly what it was doing when it scheduled the game here.

 

I could have sworn I saw a few players cutting open dead Tauntauns and getting inside for warmth.


Sorry, that was nerdy even for me.

 

I'll put it this way. Should the game have been rescheduled?? Yeah it really should have been. But give me a break. Any Concacaf fan (maybe outside Mexican fans since their home fields tend to be okay) bitching about this game being unfair should take a long nice look in the mirror. Fact is we've played on some awful, just god awful fields on your guy's home turf (not to mention all the low class BS your fans pull), so I am so sorry that I just don't feel all that sympathetic right now.

You know call it gamesmanship or whatever, but it wasn't like the Costa Rica players were exactly happy about the prospect of the game being canceled in the 50th minute. Nobody would have blamed them if they decided to appeal for the game to be called off, but yet they were clamoring alongside our players to let the game resume (or at least it didn't look like they were making much of an attempt to protest). Both teams had to play in these conditions, and while we had the "home crowd" both teams had a fair share of guys with experience playing in the US (MLS).

Also we intentionally scheduled this location for the snowstorm?? LMAO it's spring guys. This location was selected in mid-January. This wasn't some big conspiracy to screw over Costa Rica, you can be rest assured.

 

It's funny how Ian Darke and Twellman were assuming that the Costa Rican's wanted to continue to play this match, while now everyone from their team is calling this match a disgrace. In my mind, this is no different from the matches we play in Jamaica on a cricket pitch in a tropical storm. It's no different from playing on a horrible synthetic pitch in a shoe-box of a stadium. If other teams want to complain about the playing conditions here, they need to get their own houses in order.

In addition... I think in many ways, playing in these conditions in the US is a disadvantage to the US. Yeah... mentally, the Ticos don't want to be here, and they are a little beat down. However, I think the US SHOULD beat them, and the conditions actually neutralize some of our other advantages.

 

We may not have been hoping for a snow storm... but we were definitely hoping for some really cold weather. So we were trying to get an advantage... nothing wrong with that, though.

 

The Snow Bowl.

 

I mean I can agree with that, but then again I actually think it had more to do with us getting our players more experience playing in altitude than anything else (seeing as we would be playing at mexico a few days later in the schedule)

 

Whatever you think of this match's contribution to the beautiful game, one thing is for sure the match will be is that it will be remembered. Imagine if it had been a match played for the final spot in the WC. The controversy that it would have created would have ensured that match's place in history. Now imagine how Don Garber missed a wonderful opportunity to give MLS some "history" last year when he postponed the DC/NJ playoff match.

 

Just call it "The Winter Classic".

 

I just read the World Cup 2014 regulations

Regarding a possible protest by Costa Rica it states that the first step for a protest involves the team captain lodging the complaint during the game in front of the ref and the other team captain. Then the team protesting must submit a written complaint within two hours after the end of the game.
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Didn't seem like step one happened.

 

Snow shovel as memorabilia? USMNT hooks up one of the guys . . .

 

When Dempsey went down after contact late in the game and lay deep in the snow, I told the people watching in the room with me, "Hey, one advantage of playing in this blizzard is if you have an injury, just grab some snow and put it on the spot! No swelling, and you'll feel fine and/or nothing pretty soon."

In fact, I half expected Dempsey to do that and spring right back up - that man is tough and determined beyond compare.

All jokes aside, that was a totally surreal, epic game, and I'm glad everyone got out of it with no serious injuries.