sancarlos wrote:This article is amusing. According to it, you cheered for the usmnt because of your "misgivings and discomfort with the American mainstream". Also, Will Leitch must be smarting to be characterized as "a less self-aware version of Peter King".
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As a non-American, I find these articles and debates amusing. Why is there a debate at all?
It's not wrong to love soccer and read every piece of soccer news every day from every league.
It's not wrong to hate soccer with every fiber of your being.
It's not wrong to only like the World Cup and watch all the cool teams in it.
It's not wrong to only watch the US in the World Cup and then go back to hating it when the US is eliminated.
Why is there such a push for one side to force the other side to behave a certain way? Why are you a better person if you embrace soccer?
In Canada, we don't care what you're doing. Canadian tv has been showing the World Cup live since 82 when nobody gave a shit and continue to show it now when people still don't give a shit. 1.5 million out of 36 million people watched Brazil-Chile. Canada's not in it afterall. We show all Canadian WCQ games (even on the road!). But that just the television network's duty, we show Canadians doing anything from Davis Cup to International Rugby. Even if nobody's watching.
We don't need homegrown announcers, we just take the world feed. I can't find a Canadian article that debates whether watching the World Cup is good or not, maybe Pruitt can find one for me.
It's there, watch it or not watch it.
Kung Fu movies are like porn. There's 1 on 1, then 2 on 1, then a group scene..