[DoodleBob]

She’s the perfect pick.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/soccer-and-metric-system-jay-nordlinger/

Soccer and the metric system were rebukes to American exceptionalism — American thickheadedness and backwardness. The rest of the world did it; America was stubborn and behind, in its rejection of those things. America held on to this screwy imperial — imperialist! — system: feet and yards, pints and gallons. The rest of the world had this elegant and logical and non-imperialist — non-British! — system. America had its brutish sports: football, in particular. We needed to embrace the real football, soccer, played by thin, small, virtuous Third Worlders, who had no equipment save a ball, and maybe a few sticks for goals. Nets, too, if they were really lucky.

[Rummyfan]

When I was coming of age, soccer was pushed on us, and so was the metric system — and for the same reason: The rest of the world did it....

I remember my high school physics teacher telling us back in 1974 that it was only a matter of time before we went to the metric system. 1974. And yet here we are. We went to the moon and back on the English system; no one else has gone on any other system.

As for soccer.... we are told every World Cup this will kickstart the growth of soccer in the US. Bah....