Snorting the Endline - Jason Kreis and the Eyeball

A long, long time ago we tried to start a soccer website; thought we were writers or something....

It was called "Snorting the Endline" named after Robbie Fowler's infamous goal celebration and one of our favorites of all-time. That site failed miserably. I mean who would want to read our ramblings!?!?!

The name, however, will live on in a new feature we're bringing to the Free Beer Movement. American soccer culture is just as much about what happens on the field and some of the greatest contributions to this culture are the creative celebrations that occur during the aftermath of scoring a goal. Some are premeditated while others are spur-of-the-moment.

We want to capture all of them in recognition of their contribution to American soccer culture. Welcome to "Snorting the Endline."

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Today's edition comes from not a player, but a coach, Real Salt Lake's Jason Kreis. Against the New England Revolution Kreis saw his squad go down a man and a goal early in yesterday's match due to some pretty atrocious officiating. RSL managed to crawl back though some controversy of their own (another questionable penalty call) and a late Fabian Espindola goal.


When Espindola grabbed the 83rd minute equalizer Kreis had little sympathy Revs and coach Steve Nicol giving their bench a "single tear" mixed with the "contact lens pull" taunt.

Before their  CONCACAF Champions League Final loss earlier this year Kreis said, "We're not here to weather the storm; We're here to be the storm."

Looks like the RSL front man is stirring the pot again.



Video Credit: 723 Football Films


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Goal Celebrations: Which One Is the Best Ever?

This past week saw a hilariously inventive goal celebration burst across the Inter-Net-Blogo-Sphere. Stjarnan faced Fylkir in Iceland's top league. Halldor Orri's tallies the penalty kick and goes fishing:



This led us to fondly remember a lot of great goal celebrations that we've seen over the years.  We're partial to Robbie Fowler's "coke snort" celebration and Clint Dempsey's "home run" celebration when he impersonated Babe Ruth from the grassed-over home plate spot at RFK Stadium (where the Washington Nationals used to play), but there's tons of great ones out there.

Our all-time favorite?

DC United's Alecko Eskandarian scores twice against the newly re-minted Red Bulls New York back in 2006. As he runs towards the sideline to celebrate, one of his teammates tosses him a can of the energy drink which he pops open, takes a swig of, and prompty spits it all over the place in disgust. A awesome slap in the face to the New York side. Major League Soccer didn't take to kindly to Eskandarian's hijinks and fined him.

Here's a few more (choppy video, but you can make out some quality ones):



That leads us to asking you, dear readers/followers, what are you favorite goal celebrations?

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