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The weather was making the digital TV skippy, but we never anticipated that… then three or so minutes into the game, Germany scored the first goal, and then everything froze up. Panic and irritation.

The computer was quickly restarted and we got it back working again.

Who are we rooting for? Germany! We decided it would be safer for Sweden if Germany won, after all, as Gavin pointed out, wars have been started over less, and angry drunken crowds of German soccer fans are a rather rambunctious.

And again at 11 minutes, Germany scored. I’m glad we’re not in Munchen today, we could probably get drunk off the beer fumes, and deaf from the cheers.

These games bring back the happy memories of the 1998 World Cup games where my sister and I would sit on Oma’s sofa cheering for which ever team score the first goal (unless the opposing team scored more). It was great fun to watch with Oma, she would get very excited if the Dutch or German teams were playing. I was fond of the French and Brazilian teams, or rather, their fans… World Cup Soccer tends to bring out the fan’s unique sides.

Now Gavin and I are lounged on the day bed in the office with our eyes fixated on the impressive flat screen display. It skips every now and then, but picture is amazingly clear… except for when the local Boston station feels the need to put up their stupid banner and taking our pretty images out of HD, especially during the replay of an almost-goal by the Germans! We don’t care about “Phil of the Future” we like the pretty HD.

I feel sorry for Isaksson (sp?) the goalie for the Swedes. He’s taking a beating, he’s jumped, spun, twisted, fallen, and had his own teammates DUCK so they wouldn’t be hit by the ball –when it was being propelled forcefully towards the goal!

At 42:12 the computer weirded out again, fortunately we got it back before the end of the 45 minutes with out, and we didn’t miss anything. And at around 52:43 the Swedes had a penalty kick. The German fans were quite upset (lots of whistling), but when Larson launched a penalty kick over the goalie into the crowd, the Germans were enthused, the Swedish fans were more than a little upset.

And at 90:00 and 2:56 German has officially defeated Sweden. Had it not been for the Swedish goalie, it would’ve been closer to 9-0 insread of 2-0. How happy. Lunchtime.