This is what the Quakes would do at HT if they weren't such a small team. Like every game celebrated at the Tigres stadium there is always a halftime show where fans have to overcome several obstacles, including a 'fighting' a Mexican wrestler, everything that happened during the show was pure comedic gold. pic.twitter.com/XdWVfGOB9i— Out Of Context Football (@nocontextfooty) May 27, 2023
Entertaining for the kids. Not sure what this has to do with being a small team. Do any MLS teams do things like this? It's okay to post here without taking a random shot at the Quakes.
Didn't the Quakes used to do more of this? Even having little kids play during ht was more entertaining than...nothing.
Missed it! I was a mom of the match back when they did that at ht, but I wouldn't say it was entertaining.
Got to meet Dr. Furlong and win a team-signed kit! (@mjlee22 was photographer for this pic, as I recall.)
It's a great photo! My husband won surgery with Furlong. Pretty cool, the LASIK -- Furlong's got a whole viewing room so I got to watch.
My son is considering getting Lasik, even tho I told him my doctor said it complicates cataract surgery down the line. Has anyone here had an issue with cataract surgery after Lasik?
There is no way a team would risk exploiting a fat person given the climate America right now. How about we have a Native American fire building and smoke messaging competition?
I had Lasik in my late 20s to make soccer easier (sweat in the eyes with contacts was no fun). Been fine ever since, but haven't had to deal with cataracts yet. I think it's done differently now though and I wonder if that matters (they used to manually cut a flap lift and and then the laser would do it's thing and I think it's just lasers now).
I was initially intrigued by the surgery, having been nearsighted since fourth grade, but he lost all his close-up vision. My vision is almost perfect to about a foot away, and I didn't want to sacrifice that. Plus one of us needs to be able to read the fine print. My dog had cataract surgery in one eye last month; her retina subsequently detached and she lost all vision. I thought this might be a dog thing, but apparently it happens with humans too. Cataract removal is such a quick procedure for people (not for dogs) and I hadn't realized how risky it was. So I personally plan to avoid it as long as possible, Lasik or not.
I had both eyes done for cataracts in 2017, and since I had 20/800 vision since teenage years, it was life-changing.
I had laser surgery on one retina that was misbehaving, so I'm extra paranoid. I've gotten used to not being able to see much of anything.
Yes, it was just a " everyone laugh at the fat guy" routine, and more than likely staged. I doubt some random fan is going to know how to body slam a wrestler from that height. More pathetic than "pure comedic gold".
I'm sure it was staged by a more than willing participant... still can't do that stuff in America now without getting cancelled.
That HT show was politically incorrect? I’m shocked. Shocked, i tell you. But seriously, I thought being fat and doing the same things as regular people is now normalized. Like Lizzie and Fat Amy. Fat is beautiful. I didn’t think that HT show was about being fat so much as being clueless. And I didn’t think it was staged…
Some people (probably not most) are fat due to genetics. How is that different than any race discrimination?
I’m not in favor of fat shaming obviously nor am I in favor of “canceling” someone who does it (though criticism of such shaming is fair game in a public discourse kind of way). But although it’s a lot tougher for some people due to metabolism rates and things like that it doesn’t seem possible for someone to be overweight if they are burning more calories than intaking, just from a laws of physics perspective.. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-causes/genes-and-obesity/
Staged. Too much dramatic embellishment in his slips, flops and falls. And the luchador conveniently laid there so the guy could launch himself off the stage and body slam him. The guy had obviously done that before.
Yeah... certainly there is some level of control in the persons hands so not a great analogy (I was trying to make it more personal)... a better analogy is probably sexual identification/trans I guess.
I agree fat shaming is discriminatory behavior. I just didn’t perceive the HT show as fat shaming. I saw it as physical comedy, and that a skinny person would have been just as funny making the same errors. With almost half the country (Wikipedia says 42%) being obese (BMI > 30), being overweight is normal. Entertainment is changing accordingly — hey, Brendan Fraser just won an Oscar for portraying a 400+ lb individual.