Obscure Sports ftw!

Today, in my life, was a self-created Obscure Sports Day. I woke up early to watch the US Soccer team play, which I thought was going to be a mistake when I first did it. But I was actually able to get up pretty easily, so I watched the game.

To be honest, the US should have won that game like 5-0. There were a lot of missed opportunities, and they were a lot better than Algeria. However, they were working on one of the biggest choke jobs up until stoppage time at the end of the second half. Then, the spicy Landon Donovan saved soccer in the United States single-handedly. Not really, but kind of.

I'm not going to do an in-depth look back on what happened, because chances are that if you are reading this blog, you were watching that game. If you didn't watch it, then move to Cuba because you're a Commie. (jk lol)

So after I was actually excited during a soccer game for once, I got an ESPN alert (by the way, I only know anything about sports from getting ESPN alerts...not really) that a pretty cool thing was happening in tennis. These two guys that I had never heard of, mostly because it wasn't Andy Roddick or James Blake, were playing an ultramarathon tennis match, and they were tied at 24 games a piece in the fifth set.

For those of you that don't know, it's generally the first to win 6 games wins a set, win by two, with a tiebreaker if it's tied six to six. However, in the fifth set, it's the first to win by two games, no matter how many games that is.

So these two guys were slugging it out, and it was awesome, but I have a new XBOX 360, which I had to play. So I went into my room and played it for about two and a half hours. I decide to stop, go into my living room, and see that the match is STILL GOING ON. It's now 46 to 46, and it's becoming ridiculous.

I'd tell you how the match ended, but it's not over yet. After 7 hours, they suspended play until tomorrow with the score of 59-59. This match was already suspended once due to darkness. It's the longest match in the history of tennis, and hilariously enough, the fifth set alone is longer than any other match in the history of tennis.

So today is Obscure Sports Day, and the MVPs are Landon Donovan, John Isner (USA!), and Nicolas Mahut. These guys are studs.

Oh, and Steve Smith on the Carolina Panthers is better than Steve Smith on the New York Giants. If you think otherwise, then we disagree.

GOOD NIGHT NOW