Come clean everyone, you are watching/listening/reading about the World Cup, aren't you? Why? Do you even know? Nope you don't, but I have an idea. Real football has the Super Bowl for pros and the BCS for college; baseball has the World Series; basketball has March Madness for college and pros have the final games of the playoffs; and hockey has it own playoffs and the Stanley Cup (side note: Game Seven of the final Stanley Cup is the best of all the playoffs, and I don't follow hockey). But do you follow ALL the games leading up to each sports playoffs? Or do you get involved in the tail end of the playoff series? If you are like me, you get involved in the final game or the biggest EVENT of the related sports playoffs. Super Bowl-an event, not a game any longer; March Madness is more than games, it is an event spread over three weekends leading to the "Final Four"; baseball has its playoffs to see who goes to the World Series; and finally hockey has a season that culminates in the Stanley Cup. So this brings us to soccer (no it is not football it is soccer!) and the World Cup. The World Cup is an event and we all love events, even if we don't understand a single thing related to that event. We will set parties up around the event; we will work schedules around events; and we may even play hooky from work for the event.
The truth of the subject is the vast majority of us US are viewing the World Cup not because it is the sport of soccer, but it is time for another event to take place and we are all in! Now go win the damn thing won't you!!!
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