Every four years when the World Cup rolls around, Americans get insanely jazzed up about a sport that they ignore the rest of the year. While the guys who make up the American World Cup team are toiling all year long playing games, gathgering points and doing whatever it is they do, the rest of the country is immersed in football, basketbal, baseball, and hockey. While most of us can name at least 5 teams in the NFL and rally around the TV for college sports, no one can name the soccer teams that our USA guys play on during the pre-World Cup years. The question raised here then is why oh why do we flock to pubs and brew houses with a vaguely European feel to sit on pins and needles watching a sport none of us really know the rules to (I should note we are forced to pubs n such to watch these games bc unless you have a satellite dish with the extended sports package you can't watch World Cup)? The answer is two fold, first Americans love displays of patriotism-as they should- and second we love any excuse to drink copious amounts of liquor at random times through out the day. In case you haven't noticed, Ameircans love drinking as much as the next country, we even celebrate holidays of other cultures-St Paddy's and Cinco de Mayo- as an exucse to drink and party all day long, nevermind that we have no idea what we're drinking for.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't watch the World Cup and cheer on our country, who never gets very far in the series due to the fact that we do not care about soccer. What I'm saying is that we should acknowledge that unlike the rest of the world who cheers on their local teams year in and year out, we really don't know much about the sport but we do know a ton about beer.
That was my rant for the weekend.
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