Exactly! IMHO this is not going as well because ticket prices are outrageous, and you have to travel a long way to different venues, 11 in the US, 3 in Mexico, and 2 in Canada. Then you have the unrest in Mexico, and international political unrest. Lots of factors.
Just dumb spreading it out like that. That was actually the one good thing about having it in Qatar, that all the games were in a relatively small area.
In Texas, they managed to pick a stadium in what may be the largest city in the US without scheduled public transportation. Wonder what the surge rates will be on rideshares for folks seeking to get back to civilization after the games there.
Someone mentioned sellouts in the previous World Cup games in the US. That time, they picked a stadium (still available for use) that was served by public transportation. But we do need to subsidize the billionaires, I suppose.