Adbuster

An idea for an adbuster that I have in mind is to photoshop Cristiano Ronaldo's face onto a Victoria Secret Model's body.  Then the lettering that would be on the advertisement would read "Ronaldo's Secret? Acting Like a Girl to Get a Free Kick."  It can be said that Ronaldo is known for faking injuries when he is slightly shoved in the hope that he will receive a free kick.  Ronaldo has been seen many times getting knocked a little bit then falling to the ground grabbing a part of his body as if that part had split in half.  Many of the times that this happens, other players on Ronaldo’s team would run over to Ronaldo and flag down the referee as if they deserve a free kick. 

Ronaldo is not the only soccer player that has attempted to fake an injury for a free kick, as many other soccer players have been seen doing this.  It is something that is very common in soccer, and it makes me wish that there can be a game where a player didn’t act like it was the end of the world when they are slightly shoved.  I am not coming up with the theory that the players are faking injuries without evidence, because there is indeed evidence of players falling to the ground pretending like they’re hurt until the referee declares that no free kick will be given.  As soon as this declaration is made, many players are seen simply getting up as if they were never even hurt.  This just shows that the player wasn’t hurt in the first place and that their little hissy fit was all an act. 

Another idea I have for an adbuster is a picture of a blind person with a walking stick and the caption being "World Boxing Organization Judges."  A boxing match that stands out in my mind particularly is the match between Pacquiao and Bradley.  In this match, the judges declared that Bradley won the fight when it was clear that Pacquiao should have won.  The judges who said that Bradley won must have been blind when they were watching the match because everyone was astonished with the decision.  

Faking An Injury

I once saw a SportsCenter commercial that showed the USA Women's Soccer player Abby Wambach and two men in an office.  Abby was walking down a hall with what looked like a business man, when another man pass them and accidentally bumped the other man extremely lightly on the shoulder.  At this moment, the man fell to the floor grabbing his ankle screaming that it was broken and that he could no attend work for the next week.  Abby and the other man she was walking with simply looked at him, shook their heads, and said "he's fine."  Once Abby and the man walked away, the man on who fell to the floor got up and walked away like nothing happened.  This commercial is funny and ironic because it relates to how many soccer players fake injuries during games.  A player will be lightly bumped, and they'll fall to the floor grabbing their ankle or some part of their body complaining that they are in pain until the referee decides whether or not a free kick should be given.  I've seen instances like these happen many times, and it's even more funny to see that Abby Wambach was in the commercial because she has without a doubt witnessed this event many times as well.  There are probably even a couple moments in Abby's history where she has tried to fake an injury to gain a penalty kick.  The commercial essentially shows that which many watchers observe when they are watching soccer.  The underlying message of the commercial doesn't even have to be described in order for someone who watches soccer to understand it.  

A Greeeeeaaaaaat Day

When I woke up this morning, I let out a big sigh and just said “greeeaaaaaat.”  I woke up late, as usual, and got myself off to a bad start.  Maybe one day I’ll actually wake up on time, but for now that’ll never happen.  To make my day even better, as soon as I walked over to my closet full of emptiness I realized that I should probably do laundry at some point so I can actually have some clean clothes to wear.  So there I was all dressed up in dirty clothes that I tried to cover up with some body spray, which now made my clothes smell like a weird combination of good and bad.  As I walked over to the kitchen with the thought that I had food to look forward to, I had the most “beautiful” sight in the world: A fridge full of absolutely positively nothing.  I just had to let out another “greeeeeaaaat” before I was off to the place that I loved the most…..not.  On my way to work I was thinking “it’s okay, at least I get paid” and the thought of earning money essentially gave me the determination to actually go to work.  As I was trying to talk myself into how much I love working, some jerk came out of no where and cut me off like it was nothing to him.  As I saw him speed off I just hoped that some cop would be sitting and waiting for a guy like him to speed by, so his ass can have it.  But of course, he got away with cutting off me and almost every other car he encountered while I sat in my car heated with the fact that he almost wrecked my car and I couldn’t do anything about it.  So after this “wonderful” morning I finally made it to work and kept saying to myself “at least I’m getting paid.”  Once I finally got into my office and just wanted to get my shit done, I saw a note from my boss sitting on my desk.  I couldn’t help but let out another “greeeeaaaat.”  So there I was at my bosses office wondering what she possibly had to talk to me about.  All I wanted to do was go back to my desk and get my work done so I can go back home and my day would be over.  Once my boss finally came into her office, she came in with the biggest smile like everything was all fine and dandy.  The way she was acting even made me think "damn maybe I'm getting a promotion, finally."  So I sat there waiting anxiously and kind of excitingly for what she was going to say, when she let out words that hit me like bricks to the face.  "You have been working excellently and have really been an asset to our company, I really like the work that you've done and applaud you for it but I'm sorry I'm gonna have to let you go.  The company is just unable to keep you on as an employee as we need to make some cut backs," this statement turned my face from the biggest grin to the maddest stare anyone could have ever seen.  I literally just walked out of that room, grabbed all my shit from my office and drove home and didn't say one word the whole time.  Once I finally got home and just took a seat on my couch, you already know I couldn't help but let out the biggest "greeeeeaaaaaaaat" of all time.     

My Favorite Movie, But This Time About Sports.

My favorite movie in relation is "She's The Man."  This movie stars Amanda Bynes and is about a girl who plays soccer who's high school just cut the girls soccer team.  This leaves the main character, Viola, with no soccer team to play for since her high school did not allow girls to be on the boys soccer team.  In order to be able to play soccer, Viola cut her hair and disguised herself as her twin brother who attends her rival school and who also happened to be going out of town for a while and would miss numerous days of school.  Viola attended her rival school as her brother and tried out for the boys soccer team there and ended up making the team.  This whole time, the team and everyone at the school believed that Viola was in fact her brother and no one knew that she was actually a girl.  At the end of the movie, Viola ended up playing her old school that would not let a girl onto the boys team.  During this game, Viola's actual brother came home and it was revealed that Viola was in fact a girl that was pretending to be a boy this whole time.  The boys team continued to allow Viola to play for them despite the fact that she was a girl.  Viola ended up scoring the goal that beat her old school proving that girls can indeed play for a guy's team.  In this movie we see a fake reality of people actually believing disguises that are extremely obvious.  This is not to say that girls cannot play on guy's teams, but I don't find it possible for a girl to be able to pretend she was a guy under her circumstances for such a period of time.  We also see concepts of hope and inspiration through Viola's character and how she ended up on top and proving everyone wrong despite her circumstance and gender.

My Favorite Movie

Although I have numerous favorite movies and can't pick one in particular that I can call my favorite movie, "The Dark Knight" particularly stands out at this moment when I think of my favorite movie.  This may be due to the fact that I recently re-watched the movie a couple of days ago so it is fresh in my mind.  Everything abou the movie was great.  The nail-biting suspense that is brought upon you, the way that the characters where portrayed and played, and even the ending that may have shattered many people's hearts.  Something in particular that I loved about the movie was the way in which "The Joker" was played.  He was mysterious, yet had a story behind him that somewhat explained his behavior.  What was different compared to many other good guy vs. bad guy movies was that the bad guy essentially ended up winning in the end, even though he died.  He made numerous people suffer, made "Batman" run away, and even turned one of the heroes in the movie into a bad guy by the end.  In the movie, Harvey Dent was an archetype in the sense that he represented courage, love, and pride for the city of "Gotham."  A fake reality that we see in "The Dark Knight" is that bad things will never end in total doom.  Even though the good guy lost in the movie, he still ended up killing "The Joker" and stopping the doom that was happening at that moment.  This can make some people believe that nothing can end in doom.