Upset! Well, seriously, no it wasn't

Posted by Ryan Jerz 06/12/2006. Permalink | Shortlink | Tweet it!

Having just checked (Czeched?) the Deadspin live-blogging on the U.S.-Czech Republic world cup match, I have to ask. Does anyone in the U.S. really, really care about soccer? Sure many U.S. kids play soccer, but I’m convinced they only do so because it’s easy for parents to get their kids into it, and they get a bit of exercise. The Girl plays, but she’s six. The Boy played, but only for a year until he really figured out baseball is the shit. Some people, although I’m not sure I’ve met any I liked, played into high school. But it dies after that. Only Ivy League assbags play beyond that, right? And forget MLS.

Also, it should be noted that Deadspin bailed after 85 minutes with the U.S. down 3-0. Bummer. Didn’t the live-blogger see the Japan-Australia match the other day? Oh, I guess they did. Anything can happen. Japan-Australia is totally the soccer equivalent of the infamous Heidi game, only imagine if the Raiders had scored their entire season’s point output in that time. Amazing.

As for the U.S. team, didn’t we do this a couple of World Cups ago? We were all hyped, but lost all of our games, and scored like one goal? The result was something like we finished dead last at the World Cup, after weighing all the tiebreakers. Awesome. I predict that again, just because we don’t care and I’m glad about that.

Ryan JerzRyan Jerz is an all-around good guy who shoots photos and video, builds websites, and works in athletics at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received a Masters Degree in 2007 from the University of Nevada, Reno's Reynolds School of Journalism.

Comments

Kevin wrote:

It’s not that I really, really dislike soccer at all. In fact, it’s an interesting and fun sport on which my disinterest lies squarely on the fact that I know little to nothing about it. And I think that’s the problem for many people. They have no interest because very little is done, outside of our kids playing, to promote the sport in the States.

Jun 12, 04:12 PM

mrjerz wrote:

Sure little is done to promote it, but that hasn’t always been the case. We had the World Cup here in the ‘90’s and without all the Euros, it would have been a major disappointment. We have Mia Hamm, Sprots Bra Chastain, and that crazy red-haired dude. They blasted us with promotion in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, but nobody bit. I think everyone just gave up trying to promote it because people don’t care.

I knew some kids on the high school soccer team, and their season was during my Cross Country season. Believe me, we were logical allies, but still nobody watched them play. It’s boring as sin. My only entertainment comes from watching it on the Spanish TV channels because the announcers, who I can’t understand at all, make me laugh.

Jun 12, 04:18 PM

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