From: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/richard_deitsch/03/03/media.circus/index.html SI: What will happen in the World Cup? Stewart: The U.S., coming out of the Group of Death, ties Ghana and the Czech Republic and beats Italy, 1-0. We go into the quarterfinals where we face Brazil but due to a terrible and ironic twist, the Brazilians get dysentery from the food in Germany and the U.S. wins in a shootout on a goal by Kasey Keller. Now we're in the semis where we play the host country, Germany. But in an amazing display of respect for America's status in the world, Germany decides to lay down its boots, allowing the States in a walkover to get to the finals. At this point we face Afghanistan who got in with one of those Michelle Wie sponsor exemptions. They defeat the United States because they are on horseback. And that is turned into a movie that Pelé likes better than Victory. Sorry if this is a repost, and if this is in the wrong place. It's just damn funny, like the rest of the article.
he played D1 soccer at my alma mater William and Mary, if ya did not know. His name was Jon Lieberman I believe. OOOPSS, sorry I had not read the piece yet!
He talks about this in the article, including a goal that he scored that put them into the NCAA D1 playoffs one year.
I am sure that I played against him in college (we played them every year during the early eighties), but for the life of me, I can't remember him!
i would wet my pants if this ever happend. actually... i'd wet my pants to have just one of them in the commentators booth. to be honest though me wetting my pants is a relatively frequent occurence.
Jon Stewart is one of the funiest guys around. But I take exception to you not being a fan of Nutella. That is one of the worst things I have ever seen on a message board
yes, that interesting thought crossed my mind. Here are Stewart's thoughts: ------------------ SI: Say ESPN opens its vault, would you host Monday Night Football as an analyst? Stewart: Maybe if they opened their vault and brought out the head of Ted Williams! I don't know what's in the vault. Is it one of those Capone things and we get Geraldo and we open the vault. The question is would they want me? I'm not a sportscaster. That's an art form in and of itself. Could I be an annoying guy sitting there and making comments? Sure. I do that at home. I don't think its necessarily something they would want to pay me to do. -----------------
This makes Jon Stewart even more bada$$. Now if he would just beat up Tucker Carlson, better yet Bill O' Reilly in the octagon, that I would elevate him to god status.
This needs to happen. Hilarity ensues... What's ironic is that they're both such fans (yes, Stewart's a bona fide fan in my book, simply knowing who Kasey Keller is is good enough for me), they'd probably play it straight and take it really seriously.
Except that Drew Carey isn't all that funny - that's why he sat behind the desk on "Who's Line is it Anyway?". If he can do play-by-play, maybe. A better combination might be Robin Williams and Jon Stewart. Put them on the SAP. Or better yet, put O'Brien and Balboa on the SAP, Stewart and Williams on main audio and watch ratings soar and get a few BBF (baseball, basketball, football) sports fans introduced to soccer in a unassuming way.
He calls himself a libertarian, by I wouldn't call him a right winger in the O'Reilly, Fox News, neocon crackpot sort of way.
haha I love Jon Stewart , and im glad hes so optomistic , but we would play Brazil in the round of 16 then would have to beat someone else to play germany in the semis . Either way , I hope hes right !
kind of weak, maybee next time he can let his 10 writers on the daily show answer the questions for him
Dude, Nutella is the bomb. My neighbor from Brazil introduced me to Nutella several months back, and I have been a fan ever since. It doesn't taste like almonds, it taste like chocolate.
I'd love to see him do the show from the WC! Imagine the field day he would have interviewing the fans from all 32 countries -- I'm sure more than a few of them would have some funny shit to say about the state of affairs in the USA. Plus, anything to raise the profile of the game in the States is a plus in my book.