FIFA not to ban vuvuzela

Sify News ^ | June 14, 2010 | Staff

[dfwgator]

I don’t mind it so much myself, although, I would rather hear the chanting and singing of the crowd.

It does give an African flavor to the thing, it’s definitely the “trademark” of the games in South Africa. I’m pretty much used to it now.

But I doubt that FIFA awards to WC to Africa for a long, long time.

[omega4179]

Google shopping has vuvuzelas for $8

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****The only people that like those horns play Scrabble!****

....and they probably liked New Coke.

[ak267]

Is it just me or are the horns at the World Cup a total buzz kill?

At this rate the ref should wear a beekeeper outfit and the line judges should blow smoke into the crowd.

[Frank_2001]

“Darn. I hate those things.”

Wait until the World Cup is played in Scotland!;))

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

I feel sorry for people at the venue, though, who aren't into the tradition.

Tradition my a$$. I lived there in 88 and 89, went to soccer and rugby matches and never heard or saw one, not once.

[over3Owithabrain]

Africans - “guests please respect our culture”. translation: “let us ruin the entire world’s biggest sporting event with mindless horn blowing rather than respect our guests and be gracious hosts.”

[Moose4]

Sepp Blather (see what I did there?) is an idiot. Only a stupid multi-culti-at-all-costs Eurotard bureaucrat like Sepp could equate some of the more fun and interesting traditions of football/soccer with blowing a cheap plastic trumpet nonstop for three hours.

No worries. I think that the next time the English and, say, German hooligans have a bloody drunken street brawl, when the usual protestations fly from FIFA, they should just say, “What? IT’S OUR TRADITION LIKE THE STINKING VUVUZELA, YOU CAN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT!”

}:-)4

[Haiku Guy]

Remember a Democrat convention a while back that had about a million of these damn horns? I think it might have been 1980, when Kennedy was challenging Carter.

[ArrogantBustard]

Hmmm ... it's conveniently sized and shaped to be shoved down the guy's throat.

Jus' sayin' ...

[EveningStar]

Don't hate the vuvuzela!

[ArrogantBustard]

In New Orleans, they march down the street with trumpets, and trombones, and saxophones, and drums, playing actual music.

In South Africa, they just honk one note on their vuvuzelas ...

[ErnBatavia]

Sounds more like the nickname for Hispanic hookers to me.

[Hot Tabasco]

the vuvuzelas

There's nothing "African" about those cheap plastic noise makers, I had the identical cheap plastic horn back in 1967 and '68 at my high school football games in Detroit........

Back then it was probably made here in the U.S. by Mattell.

[Hot Tabasco]

but the horns are just blown constantly for no apparent reason at all.

Just imagine what it's like being at the games with these jokers standing behind you blowing those damn things in your ear..........

[Hot Tabasco]

How can I get one of these things for a stateside sporting event.

Try Toys 'R Us.........They're just cheap-ass plastic horns made in China. There's nothing "African" about them.........

[RegulatorCountry]

Who’s the fat white guy tryn’a be down wit da struggle wearing a Cartier tank watch?

[muawiyah]

Stopping by a TGIF Saturday we could not help but notice that the BAR WAS EMPTY except for a couple of scruffy looking African immigrants.

The Vuvuzela sound was totally annoying.

Sports bars are paying a price for showing the World Cup.