Thanks to Alert Underground Reader Eric for a pointer to this stunning fishing-related soccer goal celebration, which is apparently making the rounds:
The Best Fishing Related Soccer Goal Celebration Ever:
Special Underground Thought For The Day: Today’s fly fisher insists on performing noisy, look-at-me demonstrations after catching a fish. Wouldn’t the sport be better served by imaginative post-catch celebrations like the above – instead of the lame “high-five” stuff that permeates the new wave?
I know. The mind boggles at the very thought.
Thank god fly fishing has me.
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Two of my loves coming together… if they could have included bacon in some way it would have been pretty much a dream come true. Bjorn(Quote)
Couldn’t you just eat bacon while viewing? That would also allow for a massage from a Hooters girl.
Just covering the angles you may have forgotten. Tom Chandler(Quote)
Thanks Tom. I got a number of a massage girl from Frank Ribery, I’ll give her a call and have her come over while I go get some good bacon from the store. Bjorn(Quote)
Maybe – to really tie it all together – she could rub you with the bacon… Tom Chandler(Quote)
OMG… I hadn’t thought of that… can’t wait for the wife to get home… I think date night is coming early this week. Bjorn(Quote)
Tom thanks for posting that, what a brilliant celebration! :) Mike(Quote)
I don’t know which is funnier – the video clip or Bjorn’s comment. Thanks!!!! Mike’s Gone Fishin’(Quote)
Special “Brilliancy Prize” goes to the “fish” who was bouncing along the turf while being reeled in. Let’s hope he gets the recognition he deserves from the academy. Tom Chandler(Quote)
If those guys were playing baseball they’d each be wearing one right in the earhole their next time up. professor(Quote)
It’s one reason I love soccer. Tom Chandler(Quote)
It’s one reason I don’t. That and all the fake injuries. professor(Quote)
Much better we watch juiced atheletes hit ‘em out of the park like they’re superballs… Tom Chandler(Quote)
Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy soccer. I watched more of the World Cup this year than ever before. However, I can’t stand athletes faking injuries constantly, and I can’t stand orchestrated celebration. I don’t mind a lot of team celebration after a score, much like in football. I just don’t like the “look at me” celebration, again much like in football. That’s just one of the things I love about baseball. There’s a level of respect, an unspoken code of sorts, that is accompanied by quick and severe retribution if you start getting bit too big of an ego. Besides, the way that fish was flopping around, it’s obvious he was using a barbed hook and the fish couldn’t spit it.
And don’t kid yourself, there’s plenty of PED’s in every sport. Even European ones. professor(Quote)
Thanks for sharing. That was great.
The kinda people that would stage this and pull it off flawlessly like are A-OK in my book.
Glad they practice catch and release…. John M(Quote)
He was spin fishing… Just sayin’ Big Mike(Quote)
Of course he was; if he was fly fishing, the backcast could have killed one of the linesmen… Tom Chandler(Quote)
Their hands were dry, they held the fish out of water too long, and the guy taking the picture didn’t even have a camera… Please folks… if you do practice C&R, practice it responsibly. JeffW(Quote)
Good point; I have some tough questions to ask about the temperature… Tom Chandler(Quote)
That was super cool. Loved the quick video. Walleye Jig Fishing Guy(Quote)