Pre-match: 2026 FIFA World Cup Draw - December 5, 2025 - 12 PM EDT

Not talking about the politics, but if you wanted to get people interested in the world cup, having an hour-long boring introduction is the worst way to go about it. This should be fun!

 

Prime Minister Carney drew Canada.

See my shocked face.

 

Well, FIFA managed not to mess that up.

 

True.

 

Credit to Trump to playing up the ceremonial part of this draw with some humor at least.

 

So...we still know nothing about the groups after 1 hour.

 

Now...the real fun begins.

 

I feel duped.

 

We knew going in there would be an hour of foreplay.

 

I'm laughing picturing some intern printing out 8 different ribbons for each host country and loading them into 8 different balls so they could go through that charade

 

oh my god, we still have another live performance to get through?

 

I could have tuned in at 10:00am our time and still not have missed anything.

 

If you were expecting anything more in the first hour that's kinda on you man

 

Dear God No!!

 

Whatever one thinks about him politically he does have a kind of charisma that comes with and element of entertainment and humor.

 

so we just saw the end of random draw, right? they literally fixed the first three picks.

 

Foreplay?

More like a protracted and uncomfortable negation phase with the sex worker before you get to it.

… I’d imagine.

 

Last night on the preview show Cobu Jones told the story on how FIFA did mess up the draw in 94.

Apparently the US and Colombia were not supposed to end up in the same group. Cobi said Alan Rothenberg was spitting fire backstage but nothing could be done.

 

I'm going back and forth between checking in with the draw and checking in with who Penn State is hiring as a football coach. The sight of ping pong balls got me glued to the Kennedy Center for a bit. I've been highly distracted the last few days to read about what was planned for this.

 

Nah, earlier when people were talking about the draw the expectation was that it would be hours of bull----, and then the real stuff would begin at 1pm eastern, 10am pacific, and that's exactly whats happening, good job on the people that called that. Helped prep me properly.

 

DEAR GOD, PLEASE MAKE THE PRE-DRAW STOP!!

 

Insert Crumbl Cookie joke <here>...

 

I like how FIFA aims for the youth demographic with some hip hop….

And it’s an act from the last millennium.

 

Bwah ha ha ha it’s just getting started mother******

Wake me if Mdou Moctar gets up there. That man shreds like Eddie or Jimi.

 

I wish people sent me those free cookies instead of the athletics office.