Jonathan Hood

Human Being | Husband | KC is home | MA (Intercultural Studies) | Pre PA School |

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

@AbstractLife I know the answer should be DF, BUT what about not kicking the field goal in the 2021 AFC Champ game?

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

So hyped for NFL football now

[Who's Next @WhosNextShow]

Why can’t life always be this easy

[Dan Orlovsky @danorlovsky7]

QBs

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

This list may be worse than the decision to go to war with Iran….

[ESPN @espn]

.@danorlovsky7 ranks his top-10 NFL QBs using SEVEN different traits 📈

💪 Arm strength
🎯 Ball placement
🛠️ Mechanics
🧠 Decision-making
👊 Pocket presence
👀 Second reaction
🏃 Rushing ability https://t.co/yFep9qPteX

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

@Underdog @UnderdogNFL Tyreek, Julio, and Larry — superior speed, athleticism, route running, and hands ✅

[Andrea @iamAndreaWalker]

I’m asking you to help get her back to Ghana so she can rejoin the youth group she traveled there with.

Please do the right thing.
#Delta #CustomerService

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

This season was mid. #LoveIslandUSA

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

Core 4 strikes again…..🤦🏻‍♂️

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

There is no conclusive proof. But the circumstantial evidence that there is pro-Argentina bias in FIFA affecting the World Cup:

1) In the group stage opener against Algeria, Messi caught Aïssa Mandi with a studs-up challenge on the Achilles and escaped any card. FIFA later admitted the VAR officials got it wrong and sanctioned them.

2) The inconsistency became undeniable when the United States' Folarin Balogun was sent off in the Round of 32 for a near-identical foot-on-ankle challenge on Bosnia's Tarik Muharemović. Pundits directly compared the red card to Messi's uncarded foul on Mandi.

3) In the 2026 Round of 32 against Cape Verde, referee Drew Fischer did not enforce the tournament's new rule requiring an injured player to remain off the pitch after treatment. He waited for Argentina's Nicolás Tagliafico to return before allowing a Cape Verde corner. Several uncalled fouls in that game also went Argentina's way.

4) Today against Egypt, with Egypt leading 1-0, Mostafa Ziko finished off a long breakaway to make it 2-0. VAR sent Letexier to the monitor and the goal was disallowed for a Marwan Attia shirt-pull on Lisandro Martínez that occurred roughly 20 seconds earlier and nearly the full length of the pitch from goal.

5) Neutral officiating experts, not just Egyptian fans, called the decision wrong. Former FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg said he did not believe it was a foul and did not believe VAR should have intervened at all, adding that the call was inconsistent with the physical contact referees had allowed all tournament.

6) The winning sequence produced a second grievance. In the buildup to Enzo Fernández's stoppage-time winner, Egypt appealed for a penalty on a Salah challenge and for an Alexis Mac Allister shirt-pull, and VAR checked neither. Hassan cited the unreviewed Mac Allister pull directly in his post-match remarks.

7) The 2026 grievances land on top of a 2022 record In Qatar, Argentina were awarded five penalties, the most ever by a team in a single World Cup edition, with Messi taking all five. That same tournament, Messi handled the ball against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal and escaped a yellow card.

8) FIFA has appointed an all-Argentine crew, led by Facundo Tello, for Thursday's France–Morocco quarterfinal, the tournament's first all-same-country panel.

9) Comments attributed to Infantino after an Argentina match were widely discussed as suggesting bias toward Argentina before he later clarified them, and a deep Messi run drives far more global viewership and revenue than one without him. This establishes incentive.

FIFA cannot be trusted. Egypt was robbed. Argentina are coasting to another title under FIFA protection.

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

Exactly. It defeats the entire purpose of having and using this technology.

[amadí @amadoit__]

I mean.. what can you even say at this point? selective VAR benefiting certain teams over others. brazen disregard for fairness and impartiality and it is shockingly commonplace at this tournament.

[KALYJAY @gyaigyimii]

When Argentina commit a foul before a goal , VAR doesn’t check

When opponents commit a foul before they score against Argentina, VAR is quick to work.

We see it

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

Messi is the 🐐…but my spidey senses be tingling when it comes to Argentina…

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

Team USA

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

Can’t wait for another 4 years of generational hype only to be let down by a performance akin to Fergie’s national anthem. #usmnt

[Jonathan Hood @JonathanHood123]

Hard Truth: We have to move on from believing Pulisic is our guy. He’s consistently hurt, and he never shows up in big moments.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Ronaldo has played his last match with Portugal and his World Cup dream has come to an end 💔

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[Carlton with the good hair 👱🏿‍♂️ @archfiend23]

@loveislandusa KC and Titi

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸

[Jon Tweets Sports @jontweetssports]

FIFA suspending Balogun's red card so he can play for the USMNT tomorrow is the kind of FIFA corruption that used to only happen for the rest of the soccer world.

The USA has finally made it to the big leagues.