Thursday, March 29, 2012

Greatest Goal Celebrations- #10

Perhaps nothing better encapsulates why soccer is better than American sports than its events post-scoring. Players catapult to states of nirvana and go fucking nuts. No restrictions to worry about, no fines. Just pure, unadulterated joy. Our first human reaction when doing something awesome is to run wild, physically and/or mentally, so why would we restrain that? Hi Roger Goodell. Seriously, soccer celebrations are some of the most genuine, exciting, impressive, creative, and sometimes just downright weird situations that one can view within the realm of sport. To honor this, we're counting down the 10 best celebration of all time. Leading off, the EPL's 4th all time leading scorer, Liverpool heartthrob, and likely narcotics fiend, Robbie Fowler....


At the time of this goal, the British tabloids, and especially the less than loved Evertonians, had been putting a lot of pressure on the likelihood of Fowler having a heavy cocaine problem. He responds by not only scoring a key equalizer in the Merseyside derby, at rival Goodison Park, but promptly snorts the endline not once, but twice- clearly as a result of building up such a high tolerance. Overall, in my book, pure class.

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