At the request of one of my nearest and dearest, I've decided to blog my *ahem* unique perspective on the World Cup.
First things first. I am not interested in discussing, thinking about, or hearing commentary about how the United States doesn't care about soccer enough. We don't. We. Do. Not. Pay. Attention. To. Soccer. Or football if you want to call it that. Get over it. That we don't care is NOT news. If we beat England, maybe 1/100th of a percent of Americans will pay attention.
We don't care about soccer to start with and if you don't give us a reason to watch, we're just going to go back to baseball. World Cup soccer is expecting Americans to follow the World Cup simply because it is a great sport?
That's crazy talk. There are not a lot of goals. Which means it feels long if you don't get the game. And there's all those foreign names. Who can follow a guy named Odemwingie or Ribery? And nevermind the rules- most of our experience with games comes from standing in a field in the rain watching a "we don't keep score" group of 5 year olds running in circles, we don't get the game.
So we're back where we started. The problem is, we need to win and then we need to win against a big old foe. England hasn't done anything to us in a really long time. How angry can we be with them? Honduras? Ivory Coast? I think we'd all feel bad kicking their ass.
If FIFA wants us to pay attention (and let's face it, they don't), they should get the Queen to call us a bunch of shiftless lazy jackasses.
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