I don’t know where it’s legal or not to rip your shirt off and show a training bra that is less revealing than 99% of bikinis, but tearing off your shirt (and, if possible, throwing it into the cheering crowd…this is only possible if your shot has won the game, so you won’t need it to play anymore) is a common tradition in men’s soccer. if you have scored a hot-shit goal. Guys do it all the time. At least in Europe if you do it you get a yellow card…this is why some players like FC Barcelona’s Rivaldo often wear two shirts, so they can rip one off if they get a chance. If they’re not prepared, they pull their shirts as high off their body as they can while legally keeping them on. Give Ms. Chastain a yellow card. Doesn’t matter much now, does it?
Uh, Nick, get a life about people using the Lord’s name in vain. God damn it, even my grandma did it.
I have to say that I think it is totally inappropriate to use such controversial curse words in a public manner. While I use “G.D.” and the “F” word, plus many others, in my personal life, I don’t use them in front of strangers or children. I cringe when I am in the grocery store and hear people casually tossing the “F” word around - I don’t want to hear my 5 year old niece trying it out in first grade!
While I understand that the words were spoken in the heat of the moment, I think that it demonstrates a lack of respect for the viewing audience, many members of which will surely be offended. NOT a way to win friends, sponsors, and more followers of the sport - but a good way to get people with children to change the channel when the broadcast comes on.
sosumi
Does anybody else feel it’s a little unfair that Chastain is getting all the attention for doing what 8 other women also did in the PK round? It was the goalie, Scurry(sp?), who stopped the only goal during the PKs.
yeah, and Michael Jordan shouldn’t have been exalted over everyone else whenever he hit a game-winning shot. After all, his teammates scored some of the points leading up to that shot. Scurry should get a lot of credit, but face it – we appreciate the great defensive play but we go apeshit over the great offensive play.
A bigger issue for me is that they played the equivalent of 9 scoreless innings and decided the world-freaking championship with a home-run derby!!! They should play sudden death (which is what it’s called, don’t give me this “golden goal” shit) with no clock. Sooner or later someone will score. If everybody is so concerned about getting the game over with, have the teams alternate corner-kicks – at least then when a team finally scores it’s in a real game situation.
Incidentally she should be able to rip all of her clothes off and curse like Cartman if she wants. Queen Victoria has been dead for 100 years, people!!!
E1skeptic aksed: And a question, why can we males walk on the streets topless, and girls can’t? And please don’t tell me that it is because we males get turned on by bare-cheasted females and it’d be much of a problem keeping peace and order in the streets. What, don’t women get turned on by males’ bare chests or what?
I heard of a case of just desserts in Florida years ago. Someone complained at a male body-building competition that the contestants’ nipples were visible. Turns out that the law at the time prohibited the display of nipples, but didn’t say male or female. So to continue the show, the male bodybuilders had to put on pasties.
Here we go again:
From Adam:
EVERYBODY? Ya, right. As far as I can tell, you’re the only one who cares.
Have you ever watched pro beach volleyball? The women wear tops which I would say are nearly identical to sports bras. I don’t hear anyone saying, “Gee, that would be a great sport but I just can’t get over the fact that these ladies are so immodest”. Please.
Are you sure you’re not also upset by women’s swimming competitions? I mean, there they are, right out in public, with only their bathing suits on.
Where’s that “signs of decline” thread? I have an addition…
“I think it would be a great idea” Mohandas Ghandi’s answer when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Taken from today’s Football365 Media Watch section…
Quote of the Day
"The lovely Brandi Chastain’s comment on why the world is finally turning on to women’s football: “There are people who come purely for the soccer and those come purely for the event. And there are those who come because they like to look at us.”
Someone asked for a picture, check out football365.co.uk. It’s not racey in anyway but captures the emotion of the moment quite well.
Lucky, Lucky, Lucky. You missed my point. Why don’t you read my post again and think about it before you respond. I said, “lasting image.” I think most people agree that I’m reffering to photos, visible images. And I can garantee that the first image that comes to most people’s minds will be of Chastain in her bra.
And what was all that about swimming, and volleyball? Now, if all soccer players played on their bras, then none of this would be a big deal. Sheesh.
Adam
And another thing. As I just signed onto AOL, there was a poll, on the main “Welcome” page entitled, “Sports Bra Brouhaha.” I took the poll, and it turns out there were 60,000+ votes. So, I’m not the only one who cares about this thing.
Adam
Actually, the sad thing is that a) a sports bra is nothing like an everyday bra; b) if this had been the U.S. men’s team and Bradley Chastain had torn off his shirt, nobody would have batted an eye; and c) those may be the only boobies Adam ever gets to see.
What a dumb, dumb planet we live on.
Oh, Jesus Christ, here we go. Lawrence, I said “I imagine many people are upset” not
“I’m upset.”
If you don’t see why some people could be upset at a public display of one of the ten commandments being broken by a greatly admired athlete, then I cannot help you.
Amen.
Adam
Actually, the men in Europe have celebrated by ripping their shirt off after a goal quite a bit. It was made illegal, so some players would wear two shirts, so they could rip one off. I think she was only doing a naturaly soccer celebration. Now, let’s talk about the double standard. Men do it all the time to no controversy, Brandi does it once and the world is ending.
WOW, she does have a killer body though.
Bobinelli - I couldn’t find the picture at the site you posted. Try this one: CNNSI
Whoops, try that again: Brandi Chastain shirtless
Or just check out the cover of the new issue of Newsweek.
My brother posted a cynical comment to the Talk of the Nation board yesterday, suggesting that it was an elaborate ploy by Nike to market a new sportsbra. Then he saw this today on the cover of the McPaper:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/acovtue.htm
There are no spontaneous actions in sports anymore…
On the subject of cursing in sports, did anyone catch baseball’s Home Run Derby the other night? They had a microphone on the batters (to hear their manly grunts, I suppose).
Anyway, Nomar Garciaparra, a short-stop from Boston, was up at bat. He pulled a ball foul, then loudly proclaimed “F*ck!” for all the nation’s youth to hear on live television. The announcers ignored it, but everyone at my house was laughing fit to split.
from Roksez
quote…
“the men in Europe have celebrated by ripping their shirt off after a goal quite a bit. It was made illegal”
It’s not illegal. Players just get penalised/booked for ellaborate celebrations if it interferes with the restart of play.
Regarding the second shirt - your only allowed onto the pitch wearing one strip. Some players wear a vest/t-shirt underneath their strip with a special message which they’ll show off at any opportunity.
My favourite came from Liverpool’s Robbie Fowler after scoring his 100th goal for the mighty reds “Gods job is an easy one”!