Dave’s Football Blog

So Jozy Altidore, the teenage striker for the New York Red Bulls, is blogging for the New York Times, and he wrote last week about how he and some other players like to take their laptops with them to watch movies while taking the train to D.C. for a road game.

Anyway, nobody blames Jozy for wanting to watch a few flicks while on the road, right? Well, someone left this comment on the blog:

EDITOR: For Jozy’s protection, you’d better remove that comment about watching Bourne Ultimatum on DVD – seeing as that’s still in theaters, he must have a pirated copy.

The editor did remove Altidore’s remark, but he forgot to remove the user comment, too, which notes it ironic that Jozy himself wrote:

After a year under the spotlight, I’ve learned that you have to conduct yourself in certain ways and watch what you’re doing because you don’t know who’s watching.

Like the MPAA, for example. Those delusional bastards think movie downloading is a much more heinous crime than bank robbery, and anyone who “steals” a movie who should do hard time. Never mind that all those claims are bogus. According to Hollywood, Jozy Altidore is a dirty pirate who is costing them billions of dollars. Billions! Goodness, he might as well be soccer’s answer to Michael Vick!

Whatever. The kid lives a busy life, and if he wants to watch a copy of the new Bourne flick — which one of his teammates probably got from Landon Donovan, who probably got it from his wife Bianca, who’s a working actress who knows people in the biz (most movie torrents come from internal studio leaks, y’know) — while riding a train, big deal. The biggest crime here is that a Major League Soccer team is riding Amtrak. Seriously, can the Red Bulls not afford to buy a team bus or something?