@Jbooty88 You need to see the comment @JohnStolnis was replying to to realize that he is being sarcastic. He doesn't have a problem with kickers being able to consistently make 60+ yard field goals. The person he was replying to equated this era of NFL kickers to the MLB steroid era.
@stoolgambling@RealCGriff New York is not the same as New York City. That's a state. Even if they play in a different state.
And Tampa Bay is also not a city.
@simmy_cohen@SethBalsam It's a really quirky rule that the defense has to police the tag up rule because until they appeal I guess the runner has the ability to tag up. But once the defense leaves the field they no longer have the ability to appeal the play.
Mayor Mamdani: New Yorkers elected a mayor to lead this city — not to make Israel the centerpiece of your political grandstanding.
Your video is rife with distortions and disinformation. And at a time of rising antisemitism, repeatedly singling out and vilifying the world's only Jewish state for perceived political benefit is repugnant, puts Jews at greater risk — and leaves many Jewish New Yorkers feeling targeted and unwelcome in the city we call home.
Shame on you.
@FabrizioRomano Making them available to the public kinda diminishes the whole idea of the championship ring. It's supposed to be exclusive to the actual champions.
@theoldzealand I've been saying this for a while. You can make the world cup 32 teams again and still give a bunch of teams a tournament to participate in.
Sidebar: Can US Soccer switch to being a UEFA country and play our games in Greenland?
My debut World Cup… it hurts to wait 4 years to compete at the highest level our sport has to offer. I want to say sorry to our fans it was not good enough when it mattered most and we let you down
Soccer in America will only become bigger the belief, the talent, and the passion is continually growing and I know the best days are in front of us, the future belongs to those who never stop believing, this moment will fuel us. We will be back
Why not us?
For the nation. For the flag.
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FULL timeline of the campaign to bring Balogun back, according to a half dozen U.S. government & soccer officials:
- Wednesday after U.S.-Bosnia match: Andrew Giuliani alerted Trump to the red card (Trump & Giuliani had been talking multiple times/week since start of World Cup and regularly before that.)
- Wed night: Giuliani, Lutnick and U.S. Soccer officials began activating on plans to challenge red card
- That kicked off 4 days of coordinated lobbying, legal maneuvering & diplomacy that stretched from Oval Office to Zurich
- On *Thursday* Trump dialed Gianni Infantino and asked abt FIFA’s rules around the red card decision and grounds for suspension. (They’ve known each other for 8 yrs.)
- FIFA declined to confirm any specific discussions but reiterated to POLITICO that the decision to suspend the one-match ban was made by an independent disciplinary committee.
- As U.S. Soccer’s legal team formally prepared & submitted its appeal to FIFA, Giuliani + Lutnick offered to make White House attorneys available to assist
- At the same time, Giuliani and Scott Goodwin — a hedge-fund manager who had helped pay the salary of Mauricio Pochettino — zeroed in on the officiating history of referee Raphael Claus
-Articles examining previous controversies involving Claus circulated among senior gov officials as they evaluated every argument that could bolster the appeal
- On FIFA side, Emilio García, who oversees the legal affairs of FIFA, advised Infantino on the available procedural options
- García + other FIFA officials worked to determine whether the circumstances of Balogun’s tackle met the narrow standards that would allow the disciplinary decision to be revisited
- By Sunday, FIFA announced that Balogun’s one-match suspension would be suspended
- FIFA insists that the decision was an independent one made by its 18-person disciplinary committee, but it would not say whether the decision was decided through a vote, and it has not published a report on the decision.
https://t.co/eXOOUkza6N
@JeremySchaap@MarkOgden_ Are you surprised that CAS hasn't gotten involved yet? Isn't this the very thing they've set up a tribunal at the World Cup for?