Scott Turpel

Mostly here for classic ⚽️ highlight reels

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

Two types of countries win World Cups:

1. Countries that baptize the planes their players fly in.

2. Countries that take you from your family at one day old and put you in an underground Soccer Lab.

[PaseClave @paseclave__]

🚨✈️ Atención: BAUTIZARON el avión de la Selección de Brasil que parte rumbo a Estados Unidos para disputar el Mundial 2026

[The Extreme Football Enthusiast @ExtremeFootbal4]

The best goal of the 1986 World Cup? Round of 16, Mexico vs. Bulgaria, Manuel Negrete's goal.

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

The Monk-Goalkeeper, Madrid, Spain, 1959, by Ramón Masats

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

Astounding to me someone would question why Suarez continues to play (even though he’s obviously in pain) based on a clip where he’s still receiving goal scoring chances from… Leo Messi.

[Alejandro Varsky @pollo_va]

𝗛é𝗿𝗼𝗲𝘀, la película oficial del Mundial 86, es por escándalo el mejor registro que exista de una Copa del Mundo. ¡40 años! La edición de Argentina-Inglaterra es insuperable.

[Pat Mustard-Young Banger🔥 @2nd_pat]

Maradona will be in stitches upstairs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

@startofsvmmer I watched Deliverance recently and wondered why it isn’t in the same conversation as movies like French Connection and Chinatown.

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

He must have had one in the womb

[The Footy Section @FTBLsection]

Ronaldinho: “When you start too late, after 8 or 9, you can learn the drills, the tactics, the gym work… but the mechanics will always look a little stiff. The ball knows who grew up with it and who met it later.”

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

This has to involve a cell phone somehow 😂

[Save Your Cinema @SaveYourCinema]

Someone was arrested at the New Beverly last night

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

College football is Bravo TV for guys who played high school sports.

[On3 @On3]

BREAKING: Bobby Petrino has agreed to become the next North Carolina offensive coordinator under Bill Belichick, @clowfb, @PeteNakos & @InsideCarolina report🐏

https://t.co/x8d5S4S4xR

[BYU Cougars @BYUCougars]

Objectively, how do you defend this:

Miami (10–2)
– ESPN SOS: 45
– ESPN SOR: 14
– Did not play for a conference championship
– Losses: Two 8–4 teams (SMU, Louisville)

BYU (11–2)
– ESPN SOS: 22
– ESPN SOR: 9
– Played in the Big 12 championship
– Losses: No. 4 Texas Tech on the road & in the Big 12 title game

Notre Dame (10–2)
– ESPN SOS: 44
– ESPN SOR: 13
– Did not play for a conference championship
– Losses: Miami (who lost to two 8–4 teams) & No. 7 Texas A&M

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

As a completely objective, non biased observer (ignore the hat in the profile pic) it’s good for the sport to let Texas in. One direction leads to rewarding a tougher schedule, the other to top teams playing it safe. Which is more exciting, profitable, rewarding… for all?

[Landon Holifield ✭ @TheLandoShow]

SEC teams are playing 9 game conference schedules in 2026.

If Texas misses the playoff, the entire landscape/pageantry of College Football changes.

This is a difficult position for the CFP committee to be in, but they have a chance to set the precedent.

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

Yes. Establishing possesion.

[Matthew @sponhourm]

Does soccer have a cultural equivalent to American football’s “establishing the run”

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

For me, this is the greatest campaign not only in football, but in the history of all sports.

No player in any sport has ever had a tournament like this.

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

Also, does a mean audiobook reading for Moby Dick.

[Andy “Action Movie Guy” Gorham @AndrewMGorham]

RIP William Hootkins. Thanks for all the memories!

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

This is just Mickey Hart

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

These guys used sensors measuring bio-electricity fluctuations in a mushroom to let him play his own music

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

Chicago not being a site for the World Cup in 2026 is both sad and insane given it was the site of the opening game in 94.

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

The Salad Days. I remember the batting stance. The color of the tv screen. The font of the graphics. I don’t even need to hear the voices of the announcers to conjure them. A Proustian experience.

[Cam Miller 🎥 @cammillerfilms]

Summer in the 80s for me was being able to turn on WGN everyday for baseball. And that's what it was. Just baseball. No cares about anything but sunny skies, big crowds, ballpark noise, Harry and Steve and ballplayers playing a ball game. RIP #Ryno. Here's a snippet from '86.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:

The @OfficialAlamo has acquired the bike Pee Wee Herman rode in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The bike will be on permanent display in 2027.

Photo courtesy @OfficialAlamo

[Scott Turpel @ScottTurpel]

Waco didn’t even get a mention in Me & Paul.

[Texas Football Life @txfblife]

In 1988, Baylor banned Willie Nelson from performing on campus, today the ban has still not been formally lifted