Saturday, October 29, 2005

Soccer... to the death!


So, one of the craziest sports in the Czech Republic (along with the rest of Europe and the world, for that matter, excluding th United States) is football (in America, known as soccer). Word to the wise, when in any country besides US, when you say football, it means soccer, and when you say soccer, people say "Huh?''
So... last week I went to one of the craziest soccer games in history! (or at least, the craziest game that most Americans would ever experience). The teams were bitter cross town rivals... Sparta and Slavia. Both these teams were of Prague.
So, I went with several of my friends. And throughout the whole game there were insane acts of riotous events performed by both the home and visiting peoples. People were lighting smoke bombs about every 4 minutes. And the smoke was so dense at times that you couldn't even see the field!! Riot police were running up in the stands every 5 minutes stopping the riotous hooligans. There were railroad flare goings off and everything was chaos. The visiting team was ripping out seats and throwing them at the riot police. It was pretty darn crazy. Fires were about everywhere and I couldn't tell where I should look next. And pretty much no one really got kicked out. Only a few I think. It was sick crazy. Maybe this gives you a little hint of what life looks like in the Czech Republic. Life is like this everyday. I never know what the heck is gonna go on.

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