It's that time again. Every four years, the world goes batty for "futbol" or soccer, save for the States.Heathen, infidel, pagan, whatever you want to call it, I don't get that excited. The World Cup is more fun to watch than the Champions League of the UEFA Cup, but it just doesn't grab my attention like the World Series, NBA Finals, NCAA Tournament, BCS Championship or the Stanley Cup (OK, I'll take the World over the Stanley cup).
Perhaps it's the 20-plus years in sports departments in the Northwest and Japan and Hawaii that have immunized me to the sport (where people write, call, fax to insist that soccer is the sport of the world and deserves more coverage).
"It's the most popular sport in the world!" they say.
"Then move where you can see it every day," I would say.
Maybe that's why I'm not in the newspaper business any longer. Do you think that newspaper folk in Kenya or Germany get phone calls demanding more coverage of American football, or Australian Rules Football?
It would be more interesting to watch if Costa Rica wouldn't have gagged its chance at qualifying and were playing in South Africa. It's not, so while throngs are gathered around their televisions watching the action, there's not a feverish devotion to this edition of the Mundial de Cup.
2 comments:
sumo is the sport of the world, futbol face ... big guys in diapers rule
i'll take the sweet science of sumo over soccer any day, my friend. . . you're preaching to the choir!
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