Thursday, February 5, 2015

Soon, Coming to an NFL Stadium Near You!!!

The African Cup of Nations, the major continental championship of Africa, has been halted temporarily.

It is in it's semifinals in Equatorial Guinea.  (It was originally scheduled to be held in Morocco, but an Ebola outbreak had it moved to Equatorial Guinea.)

Bad move.

The hosts defeated Tunisia in the quarterfinal and were posed to take on African powerhouse Ghana in the semifinal in Malabo.

And that's when it all went south -- on and off the pitch, according to Deadspin soccer site Screamer.

Supporters of Ghana, whose team was comfortably ahead by three goals to nil, had to flee the stands onto a corner of the pitch with about eight minutes til time, because they were not only having bottles thrown at them, but there were reports that many of the Equatorial Guineans were going to attack them as they left the stadium!

In fact, the video on the top of the article shows that, even with the fans on the field, they were still getting attacked, and the sideline linesmen were also reporting being attacked.

The game was called in the 82nd minute, stopped for about a half-hour before the game was allowed to complete with the 3-0 final.

The bad news:  The third-place match is scheduled for the SAME STADIUM.  Should the match take place (and it shouldn't!), the hosts' opponents are the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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