Any time I have extra whites, which happens with alarming regularity using Portuguese recipes, I’ll give them a quick fry and add them to the dog food.

From a body mechanics standpoint it seems pretty common across sporting disciplines to throw your arms forward (or up) when leaping vertically or forward.

Portugal played up (or down) to expectations. The other ten hold on as best they can and hope for either Ronaldo or luck to lead them to the win. A combination of “hack the superstar the ref can’t call everything” and bad luck/a defensive mistake on the second goal beat them.

I agree with the “might be frauds” list, but hope they beat Iran.

Even if Argentina is a fraud, Iceland is not a fraud simply by the fact of tying them.

“I don’t think you can boil it down to “Well, player A won a Championship and player B didn’t, so naturally player A is the greatest.””

Or the 70's Vikings.

All great players, but none of them are the GOAT. Right now that is:

It’s pretty simple in team sports, you have debates over:

That was a bit of a surprise given how much hacking he was letting the Costa Ricans get away with against Neymar and in general.

I was going to complain about the lack of coverage of the Brasil-Costa Rica game.

Which resoundingly supports an unpopular argument here, that Ronaldo might be the better in game leader at this point in his career despite being a striker instead of a midfielder.

Yes, because midfielders, like point guards, aren’t rated based on how much better they made their team perform.

Pele

Maybe he’s scored so many goals he’s out of good celebrations?

A fair point about the ranking system, but it is not like Switzerland came out of nowhere either.

Switzerland came into the game with a number 6 ranking, and the game was billed as a match between two top ten teams. While a draw is disappointing for Brasil it is no where near as surprising as the Mexico/Germany or Iceland/Argentina results.

“Alfredi Di Stéfano, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi—who convinced nearly everyone who’d ever watched them play in their time that they were the greatest player who had ever lived...”

The Swiss came in ranked as a top 10 team (#6) in the World. While a tie with them is disappointing for Brasil, it is comparable to the Spain/Portugal tie in being much less of a surprise or upset like the Mexico/Germany result or Iceland beating Argentina 1-1.

If I'm paying for a large party and a tip is already included in the tab, I'll tip enough to round it up to 20% or for really good service 25%. So really, after an 18% fixed you shouldn't expect anything additional, and 2 to 7% additional seems to be a reasonable range regardless of the AmEx fiasco. (Of course, as…