Yale Wins The Shootout

November 20, 2014 11:35 AM

Goalkeeper Saves Five Penalties - With His Face (SLYT) A soccer match between the Yale Bulldogs and the North Carolina Tar Heels comes down to the most epic penalty kick shootout you'll ever see. A sketch from Studio C.
posted by robocop is bleeding (20 comments total)

It's like an attempt to translate the Monty Python "hit the ball back at me like a bullet" skit that somehow drains it of all the funny.
posted by yoink at 11:41 AM on November 20, 2014

Was that field EMT or whoever that came out to inspect him John Hodgman?
posted by JauntyFedora at 11:41 AM on November 20, 2014 [1 favorite]

Okay, call me a sucker for comedy where one hapless dude gets repeatedly slammed in the face, but I'm a total sucker for comedy where one hapless dude gets repeatedly slammed in the face. (The third one was probably my favorite.)
posted by Navelgazer at 11:47 AM on November 20, 2014 [14 favorites]

I loved it and laughed out loud several times.
posted by the webmistress at 11:51 AM on November 20, 2014 [1 favorite]

The football! His Face! It works on so many levels!
posted by Navelgazer at 11:57 AM on November 20, 2014 [3 favorites]

Man. Laughed hard. "His catlike face reflexes. " Thanks.
posted by umberto at 12:01 PM on November 20, 2014

Well done.
posted by Curious Artificer at 12:04 PM on November 20, 2014

"Please, no...."
posted by malthusan at 12:05 PM on November 20, 2014

The commentators oversell it. By the time I got to the face shots all I could think was "why are the announcers so fake?"


AAAAA++++ for balls to the face.
posted by GuyZero at 12:08 PM on November 20, 2014

I dunno. I LOLed at "I don't even care about this attempt."

Also, the fact that it was a packed crowd at a Yale-UNC soccer game, with (for some reason) British announcers, all on BYU campus tv.
posted by Navelgazer at 12:18 PM on November 20, 2014 [1 favorite]

Really dumb, really funny.
posted by Kafkaesque at 12:23 PM on November 20, 2014 [2 favorites]

I was too put off by the horrible attempts at English accents to watch it to the end.
posted by rocket88 at 12:25 PM on November 20, 2014

"...that was anticlimatic!"

I LOLed.
posted by Floydd at 12:27 PM on November 20, 2014

Ow! The Balls!
posted by HeroZero at 12:57 PM on November 20, 2014

My sense of humor is not as sophisticated as I would have guessed.
posted by benito.strauss at 1:37 PM on November 20, 2014 [4 favorites]

In soccer, you can't touch the ball with your hands or arms...
posted by cyberscythe at 1:40 PM on November 20, 2014

Watching without sound (at work) and I didn't figure out until the third one that it was a gag.
posted by slogger at 1:51 PM on November 20, 2014 [2 favorites]

It is, in my opinion, much funnier when actual British people pretend to commentate an actual football game, like so.
posted by Errant at 8:09 PM on November 20, 2014 [1 favorite]

The last attempt reminds me of the Parry Gripp song
posted by cirhosis at 11:57 PM on November 20, 2014

The commentators ARE the funny part. Not recognizing this reminds of my aunt who got 2 minutes into Holy Grail and turned it off.
"This is stupid. They're not even riding real horses. They're just pretending."
"Yes, Aunt Billy, that's the joke."
"It's not a joke; it's stupid. Couldn't they have gotten real horses?"
"Well, yes, but...y'know, nevermind."
posted by umberto at 11:45 AM on November 21, 2014 [1 favorite]