[Libloather]

All that - to watch soccer?

[Blueflag]

In a way it’s like the NASCAR infield of old, or the Formula 1 fan experience. It’s not so much about the contest, it’s about being there, a part of it all. To see and be seen as part of it all. It’s a festival more than a contest.

You can’t see the race hardly on an oval track infield and F1 sells fan tickets that aren’t even track-side/ track-view.

But all this aside, it’s an insult to the fans to have the event there. BIG MONEY made this happen.

[V_TWIN]

The couch.......still king of the best seat in the house.

[DoodleBob]

Liberals are drawn to soccer precisely because it is one of the few remaining venues where American exceptionalism does not prevail. The World Cup, rather, is a working model of President Obama’s foreign policy vision: a world in which America has no special role, where inferior countries are no longer humbled by American greatness, where every country is exceptional, and free shots on goal are not earned, but given away as a handout to those who have mastered the art of falling down. In the group stage, at least, the games can end in a tie.

[Clutch Martin]

“All that - to watch soccer?”

Without those nagging commercial interruptions... sure why not?