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The ultimate half-time show
Hands down, the coolest half-time show I’ve seen in any sport took place last weekend at a soccer game between Mexico City’s Cruz Azul and Santos of Coahuila (which should be the home town team for Austinites given their proximity).
If I had known what was going to unfold I would have videotaped it, so hear goes the written explanation: Two men ran parallel races through an obstacle course. So far so good. In the first leg, the men ran with parachutes strapped to their back, which slowed them up a little. Then they jumped on tricycles and tried to pedal their way across a steeply pitched see-saw (they went almost vertical before the see-saw crashed to the ground). They were then met by hulking luchadores, the famous Mexican masked wrestlers, who tried to keep them from advancing. The men were slapped, kicked, tackled and pile driven. If they managed to make it past the wrestlers, they found a teammate strapped inside a gigantic ball who they then had to roll into the goal while the same wrestlers tried to take out their knees. That, my friends, is entertainment.
Forget grown men in animal costumes doing dunks off trampolines. The Mexican soccer league knows how to do half-time.
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By Eric A. Garcia
January 25, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this
Ah man, gotta love that Mexican style competition. I was once in a competition at a Jaripeo (Mexican rodeo) in San Ignacio across the border in Far West Texas to be the “Mas Borracho del Valle” (Drunkard of the Valley). My friend ran down to the arena to participate then had my name called over the loudspeaker to come down. We had to chug a hot beer, run around the rodeo arena, chug another hot beer and repeat. In total there were 3 hot beers and 3 laps. My friend won. I couldn’t make it past the first hot Tecate, but it makes for an amusing story.