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    34. Megathread for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

      ~sports.football Ask
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup starts this Thursday, July 20th, and runs for the next month. here is a schedule that will automatically convert match times to your local...

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup

      starts this Thursday, July 20th, and runs for the next month.

      here is a schedule that will automatically convert match times to your local timezone:

      https://www.espn.com/soccer/schedule/_/date/20230720/league/fifa.wwc

      I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who lives in Australia or NZ. what have the preparations been like? are you planning on attending any matches?

      or, anyone who is travelling from other countries to attend - what has your experience been like?

      I'll be watching on YouTube TV. it's one of the more expensive streaming options (currently 73 USD/mo) but I've used it for men's and women's world cups since 2018 (as well as several years of live & time-shifted American football). they've had one glitch in all that time, during a 2018 semi-final match, but otherwise it's been damn near perfect. I'd definitely recommend it if you can afford it.

      please limit discussion of other streaming options to legal ones only - linking to pirate streams could get Tildes and Deimos into copyright trouble.

      like probably a lot of people, I'll be time-shifting matches because I'm on the US west coast and many will be inconveniently timed (but you better believe I'll be awake at 3am on Sunday Aug 20th for the final)

      to avoid spoiling matches for people who haven't seen them yet, please use <details> tags:

      <details>
<summary>spoilers for Foo vs Bar match</summary>

wow I can't believe so-and-so scored 15 goals

</details>

      turns into:

      spoilers for Foo vs Bar match

      wow I can't believe so-and-so scored 15 goals

      42 votes

    41. Who's your favorite football team, and why?

      ~sports.american_football Ask (survey)
      I'm not a follower of the NFL, but I do love NCAA football. When I was a freshman in high school, two of the seniors on the team would come around and pep talk us before games and practice with us...

      I'm not a follower of the NFL, but I do love NCAA football. When I was a freshman in high school, two of the seniors on the team would come around and pep talk us before games and practice with us and such. As an underclassman, this grew into some degree of "idolizing" those guys. The following year, they both were accepted to Clemson, one of them with a football scholarship, the other playing as a walk on. For me, it was super cool to see those guys who were cool with me now on TV, playing for Dabo Swinney, and my fandom for the Clemson Tigers was born. Both graduated and moved on to real life, neither went on the play for the NFL or anything, but I never had a stronger reason to shift my loyalty to any other team afterwards, so they've remained my favorite NCAA football team ever since.

      Who's your team, and what's your story?

      23 votes