A Gold Ball Final

Those cats at Adidas sure are tricky. For what has seemed like the past 765 months they have been promoting the Teamgeist ball that will be used at the World Cup. This hypnotizing sphere has been hyped as the first World Cup ball to be black and white since the one used in 1994. Well, it turns out the ball that will be used in the championship match in Germany will actually be gold. Blasphemy, you say. We say: who cares? As long as we can see the darned thing on television it doesn’t matter to us what color they use. Gold is a bit tacky and not really the fashion style these days but it will still look good when our team puts it in the goal.

The interesting part of this story is that the World Cup champion will apparently be entitled (forced?) to use the gold ball in all matches for the next four years.

So that is the reward for winning the World Cup?

Wouldn’t it be great if there was only one gold ball and the champions had to make it last four years otherwise they wouldn’t be allowed to play in South Africa in 2010? Hmm, maybe I’ll add that to the list of ways to improve the World Cup.

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