At halftime in the Euro 2012 quarterfinal on Friday, ESPN’s television
coverage showed the game highlights, after which they showed a score line of
Germany: 0, Greece: 1. Is there a Eurozone soccer bailout too, and ESPN is in
charge of its disbursement? And this after one of their announcers/analysts in
the first half said that Philipp Lahm had scored a goal in the semifinal
against Turkey two years ago. Um, two years ago it was the World Cup, and
Germany lost to Spain by a score of 1-0, so no German scored any goals that
day. In reality, it was four years ago
that Germany played against Turkey in the semifinals like the guy meant to say,
and that’s when Lahm scored that goal he mentioned.
But it’s ESPN after all: what do they know about sports
anyway? Maybe I shouldn’t be so exacting in my factual standards when it comes to sports stuff on ESPN.
But Greece just scored,* so maybe they had a precognitive flash about the Greek goal, and that made them forget about the German goal from before. That happens to me all the time.
* Early in the second half (in the 55th minute).
But Greece just scored,* so maybe they had a precognitive flash about the Greek goal, and that made them forget about the German goal from before. That happens to me all the time.
* Early in the second half (in the 55th minute).
