Trying to enjoy some World Cup, but the constant Vuvuzela background noise is convincing me otherwise.
They’re fine in moderation, we have on from our local Seattle Sounders FC, but this is ridiculous.
Voted for you.
Agree 100%.
Sorry GILD.
You guys have no passion for the game of soccer, particularly with the world cup being in South Africa. The Vuvuzela has been a staple in South African soccer for many years now and as such is soccer in this country.
So live with it !! 
If you think showing passion for the game is honking on a giant plastic kazoo for ninety minutes, then you can keep it.
All I can think of when I watch a game is flies hovering around a giant turd.
I’ll be viewing the rest of the tournament with the volume turned down.
And it’s football, not soccer btw.
I agree. The vuvuzelas are just annoying. I’m sure the shares of
earplug manufacturers are rising at the moment…
But for everybody who wants to keep watching the world cup, I have the following hint from the blogger Zettel who normally covers political issues (first the German original, then my translation - I want to be transparent):
I’m willing to make a compromise:
They can blow them 100% of the time whenever SA is on the pitch; otherwise, just at appropriate times. I have a great appreciation for hearing the crowd responses to the game, not the sound of my head inside a bee hive.
I call them fart horns. At least the version we see around here, and they’re available for sale at all the parades in my area. I don’t know if I’d be able to find one outside a parade though.
I think Unibrier’s question was more about watching the World Cup on TV rather than being there. It’s quite a distraction in the TV coverage, indeed making it sound like the game is under constant threat of a massive swarm of angry bees!
So that’s what that is. 
I agree . I had to watch with the mute on.
Why were they doing it during the american/english game?
That’s like asking why Americans would buy beer while watching South Africa and Australia play in one of our stadiums here.
To be honest I don’t like the noise of the Vuvuzela, especially when some bugger blows them indoors. But this is the World Cup, it is in South Africa, and the vuvuzela is soccer 
in this country.
Yes I know you call it football… I grew up calling it soccer.
What John said… 
I don’t care about vuvuzela at all, I suppose losers will use it as an excuse for being lame (just like the french team… and I guess the english one too, given Blue’s reaction;):p)
Side note: US Team was pretty impressive on saturday night, well done yanks!
So was the German team, and I complain about the vuvuzelas too (contrary to your theory^).
PS: Yu-Es-Ay! 
Just got back from the Chile Honduras game at the Mbombela Stadium.
Good times, except paying R30 (equivalent to 5 cans of Coca Cola) for a plastic bottle of Budweiser.
Budweiser?
They couldn’t serve actual beer?!?
I love the sound of the Vuvuzela, I’ve recently aquired the warmer-sounding “kuduzela”, a comparable instrument, but one shaped like the horn of a Kudu.
I had hoped, after the complaints arising from the Confederations Cup last year, that international television carriers would’ve worked on their crowd-microphone mix.
Apparantly not.
Leaving millions of football fans to complain about something they only get to experience third-hand, at best.
Travelling bands of “cheerleaders” move thru the stadium, using their vuvuzelas to set up fabulous call-and-response patterns, answered by fans around the stadium as they move about.
By simply pointing crowd-mics from the touchline into the crowd, yeah, you’re only going to hear the drone.
So, please don’t crap on an instrument you probably can’t play and definately haven’t experienced.
Have a go at your television provider who simply believes ‘it’s all the same’.
I’ts not.
This is Africa.
It’s not for sissies.
I’m 100% with you on this one, GILD.
At least it’s an instrument played by the crowd, not like those organs we can hear at hockey games (wich I find ridiculous, but not to the point I’d complain about).
Man, the S.A public is so beautifull, they seem to enjoy this cup so much that it’s a real pleasure to watch (and hear) them. I wich I could be sitting in the middle of the tribune, though I’m not a football addict.
For the haters: keep in mind that IF your team wins the cup, vuvuzelases sound will be a memory you’ll cherish for years.
'Can’t stand vuvuzelas? try this.
I doubt it.
Tell you what Zzagg, turn up to the next French Six Nations game and start honking on it.
Let us know how that goes.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear vuvuzelas for our next respective rugby/football championships. Not to such a sound volume, though.
As a result of the stadia being handed over to FIFA before the conclusion of the Super14 tournament, the Bulls, who play from Loftus Versveld in Pretoria, had to host the Stormers for their ‘home’ final, at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, a traditionally ‘black’ township in South Africa and scene of some of the major uprisings of the 70’s and 80’s.
This cross-cultural exercise (broadly speaking, rugby is seen as a ‘white’ sport and soccer as a ‘black’ sport) brought a whole load of vuvuzelas to a rugby game.
I think it might be there to stay, but time will tell.
Perhaps there is a benefit to being partially deaf. I’m watching my first matches and find the vuvuzela’s hardly noticeable.