Showing posts with label classic video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic video. Show all posts
Friday, November 11, 2011
Classic Video - USMNT vs. France (1979)
It's USMNT game day and we're pumped as always to see what Klinnsmann and the Nats have in store for us, but it's the above retro clip that has us buzzing as well.
Dave Brett (who's based in FBM HQ's city of Austin) collects historic videos of American soccer and he sent us a link to the above clip that he posted to YouTube yesterday.
A cool little piece of our nation's soccer history as the U.S. National Team took on France in 1979. The result? A 3-0 defeat at the hands of Les Bleus, but Boris Bandov did get a pretty nasty tackle in on currently UEFA President and former French international Michael Platini. Probably why he didn't help us get the World Cup in 2022...
The U.S. played in France seven times (friendlies, World Cup, Confederations Cup) and recorded seven losses.
Here's hoping Der Bomber and his side can reverse the trend.
Check out all of Dave Brett's video collection (and purchase them if you like) at his site, www.davebrett.com.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
FBM Founding Father - Rodney Marsh
It's important to remember that all revolutionary movements are built upon the work of visionaries before their own times. For Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams and the rest of the colonial propagandists during America's War for Independence they could look to philosopher John Locke and other Enlightenment writers.
The Free Beer Movement is quite the same. The idea of the FBM didn't start with us (credit where credit is due) and it's a cold hard fact that beer and soccer were lovely bedfellows many moons ago.
Think Frankie Hejduk was the first ever to drink a beer with fans? Thought Clint Dempesy's commercial (and accompanying web game) with Cerveza Modelo was groundbreaking? While the Free Beer Movement is certainly impressed with the beer and soccer combos of today, Deuce is not the first to break the beer-barrier nor is our honorary FBM spokesperson the first to slam suds with supporters (say that three times fast).
Set the way-back machine to 1980 and meet Rodney March. He was a striker for the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the original North American Soccer League and although Marsh is an Englishman we're taking him as one of our own. During the heyday of NASL he made over 100 appearances (from 1976-79... with a brief return to England and Fulham) for the Rowdies and scored 53 goals.
But what makes Marsh stand out in our mind is this spot for Miller Lite. It's all thing terrible (much like the Dempsey spot), but we're not going to spit at a commercial crossing beer and soccer. Here we've got fossilized (aka YouTube archives) evidence of beer and soccer history.
Drink in its glory:
There you have it, folks, FBM history unearthed. A FBM Founding Father.
More to come....
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The Free Beer Movement is quite the same. The idea of the FBM didn't start with us (credit where credit is due) and it's a cold hard fact that beer and soccer were lovely bedfellows many moons ago.
Think Frankie Hejduk was the first ever to drink a beer with fans? Thought Clint Dempesy's commercial (and accompanying web game) with Cerveza Modelo was groundbreaking? While the Free Beer Movement is certainly impressed with the beer and soccer combos of today, Deuce is not the first to break the beer-barrier nor is our honorary FBM spokesperson the first to slam suds with supporters (say that three times fast).
Set the way-back machine to 1980 and meet Rodney March. He was a striker for the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the original North American Soccer League and although Marsh is an Englishman we're taking him as one of our own. During the heyday of NASL he made over 100 appearances (from 1976-79... with a brief return to England and Fulham) for the Rowdies and scored 53 goals.
But what makes Marsh stand out in our mind is this spot for Miller Lite. It's all thing terrible (much like the Dempsey spot), but we're not going to spit at a commercial crossing beer and soccer. Here we've got fossilized (aka YouTube archives) evidence of beer and soccer history.
Drink in its glory:
There you have it, folks, FBM history unearthed. A FBM Founding Father.
More to come....
Support the Movement. Get the Free Beer Movement T-Shirt. Only from Objectivo.com
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