[FamiliarFace]

I’ve been saying for the last year or so, this WC is gonna be a $h!t$h0w. It gets worse every week that this goes on. I really think the USA is gonna be embarrassed about the whole thing. The pitch is gonna be awful. Stadiums will be half-filled. We’re going to lose money. I think this is gonna a big black eye for the US.

[RWGinger]

Agree.The USA will.not do as well as other countries
Arlington TX is reporting slow ticket sales and hotel reservations are way behind projections

[DoodleBob]

America can only get a black eye or be embarrassed if we care what any other nation or people think about us.

Frankly, I’ll wear half-empty stadiums and pitiful local enthusiasm as a Badge of Honor.

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.

[nwrep]

I really hope so. I hope our team loses badly. I want soccer gone. Like disco.

[MinorityRepublican]

I really think the USA is gonna be embarrassed about the whole thing.

Why should we be embarrassed? I'll go to a World Cup game if I can buy a ticket under $100.

But no, FIFA is trying to rip us off.

They can do that in NYC and LA.

But Kansas City?