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The United States\u2019 soccer victory over Costa Rica is the equivalent of the dastardly heel professional wrestler who just snuck a cheap shot in against their opponent without the referee noticing, and pointing to their head to emphasize their use of brains to get the upper hand.\u00a0 Long story short, a World Cup qualifier between the US and Costa Rica was played in Colorado, a state that is known to get snow fairly regularly until about late-April.\u00a0 Needless to say, it snowed pretty heavily during their match, but the game went on, and the Americans eventually ended up winning 1-0.<\/span><\/p>\n The Costa Ricans are crying foul over unfair playing conditions<\/a>, to which frankly I don\u2019t think they have any ground to complain.\u00a0 An objection should have been made well in advance, once it was decided that Colorado in the month of March was going to be the site of such an important game.\u00a0 It\u2019s as well known that Colorado is a cold place in March as well as its known that Costa Rica is vastly tropical; the fact that snow could have been a threat and actually happened should not have been any surprise, and could have been addressed well in advance.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anyone who watches any sport of any kind knows that nothing is quite the same when played in the state of Colorado.\u00a0 Visiting teams who play the Nuggets or the Broncos in Denver always cite that the thinner mountain air wreaks havoc on their stamina and endurance.\u00a0 One fat football player actually died from a combination of having played in a brutal game, the thinner air and sleep apnea.\u00a0 Baseball hitters love Colorado, because the high altitude and thin air makes their flyballs soar, boosting home run totals.\u00a0 But on the flip side, it\u2019s hell on the outfielders who have to cover a gigantic outfield to compensate, and worse on the pitchers whose pitches don\u2019t exactly move the same way in high altitude as it would closer to sea level.<\/span><\/p>\n There are professional athletes who are so convinced that playing in Colorado is the pinnacle of physical testing to the point where they attempt to simulate Colorado conditions from thin air and pressurized rooms, believing that if they can excel under Colorado conditions, they can thrive anywhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n Chalk one up for the home team for simply outsmarting the Costa Ricans.\u00a0 Bring them not just to the United States, but to fucking Colorado, in the midst of a snow storm.\u00a0 Not only do the tropical-weather Costa Ricans have to deal with freezing climates, they now have to deal with the snow.\u00a0 Some of these guys have probably never even seen snow in their entire lives.\u00a0 No better way to beat your opponents than to push them as far as possible out of their comfort zones, and such a game is pretty definitive of how it was for the Costa Ricans.<\/span><\/p>\n They can complain all they want, but it\u2019s probably going to do them no good.\u00a0 QQ moar\u00a0noobs<\/span>\u00a0Costa Rica.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The United States\u2019 soccer victory over Costa Rica is the equivalent of the dastardly heel professional wrestler who just snuck a cheap shot in against their opponent without the referee noticing, and pointing to their head to emphasize their use of brains to get the upper hand.\u00a0 Long story short, a World Cup qualifier between … Continue reading snOwned<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,15,52,9,58],"class_list":["post-35553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-futbol","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-snow","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35555,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553\/revisions\/35555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}