Tim Howard, other than a star-athlete, has suddenly emerged as this generation’s savior. Humanity has been waiting for someone like Tim Howard for generations, or so the memes seem to depict. USA Soccer goalkeeper played like a man possessed in Tuesday’s USA-Belgium World Cup match. He saved 16 shots in United States’ 2-1 defeat against Belgium and thus, the era of ‘Things Tim Howard could save’ has come to pass.
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The memes illustrate all the things that Tim Howard could save and seem to be endless. There is no dearth to his commitment and talent in saving the world and humanity. As the undisputed star of USA-Belgium match, he is trending like crazy in all the social network channels. Twitter is now loaded with #ThingsTimHowardCouldSave pictures showing the player saving people from all sorts of situations.
Tim Howard is portrayed saving Simba’s father, Mufasa in Desney’s “The Lion King,” and dinosaurs from that dreaded asteroid and hopefully heralding the age of the Flintstones. He saves a swimmer in a poster of Jaws, Jack Dawson from freezing to his death, the very young Bambi on the iced pond, Eddard Stark from being beheaded in the Game of Thrones, Taylor Swift from Kanye West, and more.
He is there on the field holding the Earth in the palm of his hands, or stopping bullets in the form of Neo from Matrix Reloaded. Nemo is being saved from being breathed in by a diver in Saving Nemo by a miniature Tim, or he is trying to save Luke’s hand from being cut off by the eternal bad guy of Star Wars, Darth Vader; Tim is everywhere trying to make the world, in reel and real life, a much better and safer place.
According to these memes, there are no limits to the prowess of Tim Howard in saving mankind. He has been pictured trying to stop major terrorist attacks and someone even changed the Wikipedia entry for the U.S. Secretary of Defense into Tim Howard. The memes just keep on coming and almost all of them are well received. They show how much the people admire Tim Howard for his awesome performance even though USA lost to Belgium in the game. Bravo Tim for your spectacular performance and may you save us from all things wicked.
