Georgie Best, Superstar ...

[confus-ed]

Georgie Best, superstar, wears frilly knickers & a playtex bra ! ...


I think if you are a football fan (well soccer as those American folks will insist on calling it) then if you were a real fan in the late sixties or early seventies then you were stood on the terraces with me, singing that dumb* song, every time he played .. Whatever happened later in his life the man was a true football genius, blessed with more talent (in my opinion) than even the great Pele ..

Obituary: George Best

* apparently George was caught 'on the job' with a cast member from 'Jesus Christ Superstar' {the musical} by some press photographers, & the then Manchester Utd manager (Wilf McGuinness I think) hushed it up, as George apparently had the 'wrong' underwear on at the time ! It didn't quite get as 'hushed' as he'd have liked, but I found it highly amusing as a kid ..

[gazzak]

Amen. Whatever people may think of the man due to his off field activities there can be no doubt that George Best was one of the best footballers ever to live, probably the greatest ever to emerge from the United Kingdom. What most people don't realise is that he retired from the great game at only 26 years old! He was truly a footballing legend.

[xpuser357]

A football I am used to seeing looks a lot different than a Soccer ball. And the game is alot different. In soccer you use your foot more than your hands
Feet, Foot Ball? Sorry I was born here and lived to see football as what it is.
If I was born across the ocean I too would probably call Soccer Football.
It is only a opinion .

[confus-ed]

What you call football is Grid-iron, but Americans being Americans, its quite predictible that you'd decide to use a word the entire rest of the world uses in a different way, your own way ... I mean you call rounders (a game for little girls) baseball & think of it as your national sport - which about says it all

[houseisland]

What you call football is Grid-iron, but Americans being Americans, its quite predictible that you'd decide to use a word the entire rest of the world uses in a different way, your own way .....

What Americans (and Canadians) call football is only a modified form of rugby, modified so that the skill and endurance and most of the danger is removed. Football, by comparison to soccer/football or rugby, is (in relative terms) tedious both to watch and play.

[TripleRLtd]

Amen. Whatever people may think of the man due to his off field activities there can be no doubt that George Best was one of the best footballers ever to live, probably the greatest ever to emerge from the United Kingdom. What most people don't realise is that he retired from the great game at only 26 years old! He was truly a footballing legend.

I've heard much about him, and only wish I could have seen him play.
RIP!

[TripleRLtd]

... but Americans being Americans, its quite predictible that you'd decide to use a word the entire rest of the world uses in a different way, your own way ...

And -ed being -ed, your usual simplistic American bashing view of this subject says much about you as well
Actually, football, in all of its implementations and variations, was first used as a term to differentiate between peasant games played on foot, while the gentry "played" their games on horses.
When football was first played in America, it more resembled Rugby, as in the late 19th century Rugby FOOTBALL Union. Over the next several decades, American football diverged into it's own unique sport combining more elements of soccer, and adding its own decidedly unique "rules". But the term footbal always remained, no matter the differences between the various forms of football. As it has in Canada, Australia, as well as others.

[confus-ed]

And -ed being -ed, your usual simplistic American bashing view of this subject says much about you as well ..

You are meant to busy giving thanks .. so get on with it & quit being an uptight american - 'twas a joke.

& here you go George Best in action (17mb mpeg btw !) - & just for good measure, I'll comment that this is a Brit making a load of Americans look very silly ! HA !

[slgrieb]

Well, gee, this is all a bit acrimonious over nothing isn't it? I mean, wearing any underwear at all isn't good 'cause it just gives you heat rash. Unless we're talking sports gear (as opposed to athletic equipment), I'd say just buy some new socks if you need extra support.

[TripleRLtd]

You are meant to busy giving thanks .. so get on with it & quit being an uptight american - 'twas a joke.

I am giving thanks...four whole days of thanks, btw. But, today, the thanks I am giving has to do with the American university who played and won the FIRST collegiate "football" game in the US: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Winning has been hard to come by since that game in 1869 against Princeton. But today, RU has been assured of a "bowl" game and it's first winning season in years.
And thanks for the link, but I have seen "highlights". I meant I wish I could have seen him, and wished I had discovered SOCCER earlier in my life. I shall download it though.

[confus-ed]

..George Best in action (17mb mpeg btw !) - & just for good measure, I'll comment that this is a Brit making a load of Americans look very silly ! HA !

& somebody else pointed out to me, that George as an Irishman (since he was from Northern Ireland) spent much of his time making every lot of defenders look 'silly' .. most especially English ones - so I think my 'HA!' was a bit of a shot in the foot

But I didn't half have some trouble finding any video of such a remarkable player & was wondering if anybody else could turn up any clips ?, as Trip is quite right earlier, there'll be a whole heap of folks who'll have heard of George but never actually seen him 'in anger' (so to speak) & that clip isn't the greatest in viewing quality terms, even though its one hell of a bit of control & a pretty good goal..

[houseisland]

The sad thing is that today the bra and nickers would only enhance his celebrity status. Video clips released to the Internet. Talk shows. Maybe a reality series. Guest speaker for Cultural Studies classes at American universities -- cross dressing in sports.

And besides the Brits have long had a (non-gay, non-transexual) thing about cross dressing. My experience long ago as a rugby player was that if you invited a visiting British team to a "Tarts and Vicars" party, most of them didn't come as vicars. Christmas pantomimes often have crossed-dressed characters. British humour, The Carry On Gang, etc., has a long history of cross-dressing gags. Mick Jagger on the CBC once said something to the effect that it didn't take too many pints to convince a group of British lads that getting tarted up in drag and going down to the pub for a lark was a good idea.



http://www.staleywise.com/collection..._in_drag_b.jpg

Maybe Georgie was just rehearsing for a Christmas Pantomime and the press got it all wrong.