Beckham/Phoenix on ESPN show

Beckham/Phoenix on ESPN show

Nipped home for lunch today and clicked on good ol channel 34 to watch a program called PTI. As per usual they had the latest offerings from the NFL and NBA and every now and then they have a Beckham story........but seeing he'd been out of the US for a while i was a touch suprised they had something to say about him.....

and when they did.....

I'm pretty sure they mentioned the game vs Wellington Phoenix and how NZers were pawning off cutlery and half eaten corn cobs over the internet and funnily enough, they described NZ as a SOCCER COUNTRY!!!! U F**CKIN BEAUTY!. So we've made it to espn!

Check it out tonight on ESPN, 7.30 i think. It was about 10 minutes into the program.

Email your thoughts to PTI@espn.com - if enuf of us email then they might mention YF directly in relation to the LA Galaxy/MLS connection.

Viva La America

MC

Any chance we can get a video of this? (youtube?) I don't have Sky but would love to see it. Good spotting.

it should be on youtube at some stage, it usually takes a cupla days for someone to upload it thats all. quite funny hearing Wilbon and Kornheiser debate the population of NZ....one said 3 million.....one said 8 million!

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3143129&categoryId=2957357&n8pe6c=2

I'm just about to send them this email:

PTI,

 

I'm a member of the Wellington Phoenix FC supporters club Yellow Fever and from what I've seen and heard our general opinion is that the people putting the stuff up for sale are just taking the piss, I've also seen the auctions and no one is bidding on them but if someone does they're probably just doing it for the novelty.

 

I also have another couple of corrections for you guys, our population is around 4 Million and we're predominantly a Rugby country but with the Phoenix playing in the Australian A-League and the visit of Beckham we're trying to change that.

 

Regards,

James Malthus

Wellington, New Zealand

you do realise they won't have a clue what that means

I hate Tony Kornheiser, and don't have much fondness for Micael Wilbon either. Go Tony Reali though...

Yeah I know, we'll see how committed they are to their journalism when they try to find out what it means or not.

ppfft 'soccer country' ... silly americans

Wellington is a football country in the middle of a rugby country 

They have a "Corrections" segment at the end of the show, and they did say NZ actually has 4.1 million and that our "national game is Rugby Union".

so 'true'!! haha!! and getting more so every day!!! cmon Phoenix!!

I find that ESPN bit quite funny actually... Scottishbhoy2007-12-07 11:05:12

Graeme Henry keeps his job and it's a "Breaking News" in the middle of an interview, We get Beckham and it makes the latter part of the sports news.  (Can we have a "wank" smilie?)

Lads... anymore on this in off topic please folks.

Thanks.

Theyre idiots those americans

Still the Phoenix have made a global moment if only for a moment - We Live!

I must confess, i love it when he says "New Zealand is a soccer country"

i just wnana say its a dam good program, regardless of the content they have about football.

i always go back to the old adage "Any publicity is good publicity"

ive emailed them to see if I send my phoenix jersey over will Kornheiser wear it on air.....wudnt that be something!

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