Sweeneyville: What do you meme Spain is out?

Saturday, June 21, 2014

What do you meme Spain is out?

If you still haven't been watching much of the World Cup, you really are missing out. Even my kids have reluctantly starting getting sucked in, game after game. I think I have seen every single game except maybe a half here or there. I even watched Mexico play Cameroon on my phone while I was at work. And bonus, I got to watch it with a real Mexican co-worker! We were really getting in to it- to the point that we almost got in trouble because the patients out in the lobby could hear us. Hey, it was a classic soccer 0 - 0 nail biter! But, the biggest story line of this year's cup so far has been the shocking, humiliating, baffling first round elimination of Spain, the reigning World Cup Champions. By all accounts it is so bizarre and ridiculous that I am beginning to think there was some sort of conspiracy involved for the players to throw the game. They lost to Holland 5-1 and then Chile beat them 2-0. As the Internet would say, "They forgot how to soccer." And speaking of the Internet, it has, as you can imagine, been very kind to Spain. I have collected for you a nice assortment of memes and mockery. Or as they say in Spain, meme-o's and mockeria.

(*My apologies to Brian and my kudos to Dave.)

Spain's recent winnings: