"Game of Their Lives" 12/6 9pm EST on Sundance Channel

Also, the documentary "The Other Final" will be shown right after that.

 

Followed by Whipped, described as "Three New York Dominatrixes discuss how their carrers affect their personal lives."



Um, okay.

Think I'll stick to the first two .

 

If you haven't seen this, set your TiVo/VCR/whatever. I would have enjoyed this even if I weren't a soccer fan.

 

Looks like I'll be up late tonight.

 

Unfortunately, my cable system here doesn't have Sundance (I miss it, because I used to have it in Alabama), so if anyone's willing to tape it, I'd be happy to Paypal you the money to cover the tape and postage.

PM if you're down for that.

 

Thanks for noting this -- Comcast had no show description in its upcoming listings, but I added it to the DVR thinking that that's what it might have been. I've seen pieces of it but never the whole thing.

"The Other Final" is fabulous, uplifting stuff, and I'd recommend that to anybody whether they're a soccer fan or not.

 

Yep. It was awesome.

 

Great... I don't have sundance. That really sucks. I've been wanting to watch this since forever.

Here's hoping some dude out there puts this up on bitTorrent.

 

What a great night of TV, 2 really good movies.


I think Montserrat would have had a better chance if they'd had the dog in goal.

 

Excellent. Time to plan it out this time and call up my buddies who have the channel to record it for me.

 

I don't have Sundance either, but HPI's torrent tracker would be willing to host a torrent of the movie, if somebody who can get it would create an XviD or KVCD or something.

 

I had forgotten that NK had run up a 3-goal lead against Portugal.

 

Please don't post results! There's no [R] in the thread title!

 

A game played in '66? That wasn't the final score, by the way.

 

Another great movie, The Cup, is playing on IFC this month. It was filmed in Bhutan by a Tibetan lama. It's quite something.

 

Some of us haven't gotten around to watching the game on our TiVos yet. Please be considerate.

 

I remember reading something at the time that said the Dutch organizers didn't think they'd try to pull it off again, but FIFA & sponsors should step in and do it.

Actually, in an ideal world, they'd add it to the final week festivities in Germany in a WC stadium, with the tickets priced low -- like, 5 & 10 Euros -- and the proceeds going to the two national teams. People from around the world visiting Germany on soccer holiday, waiting around for the final, would absolutely pay that for a fun game. (Well, at least I would.) As great as it was in the film to see the game in Bhutan and the crowd huddled on top of each other on the endlines, when else would players from teams like Montserrat and Bhutan get to play on a real professional field in front of 40 - 50K? Also, look at how many flight connections the Montserrat team had to take to get there. Let FIFA wine and dine both teams for the game of a lifetime....

 

Perhaps, but I'd like to believe that these smaller countries have too much honor to do something like that. For a team ranked 200 to get a win over anyone would be huge, so I can't see them tanking a game just to get a trip somewhere. Oh well, maybe that's my idealism overshadowing realism.

I think that's a good idea though.

Interestingly enough, if they played this game today, it would be two American dependencies playing:

#204 American Samoa vs. #205 Guam

 

I could possibly get it later on in the month. I missed it the first time because I didn't think I had the Sundance channel. I do.