World Cup

[tlclark]

Well having just watched my first world cup, as a neophyte I suggest the following reasons why it hasn't caught on in America.

1.) No beer commercials
2.) We already have a venue for recognizing such acheivement...It's called the oscars.

Actually, after the first fifteen minutes the refs stopped paying attention to the floppers and things got a lot better. BTW - What other sport gives medals to the refs!! Giving the refs a stiff kick would improve ratings.

Congratulations to the Italians who deserved it on defense alone. I think they got robbed on two accounts. Lame penatly call cost them early and the offsides call looked specious to the American commenatators. Barring another camera angle it looked good to me. That spectacular save the goalie made mid game was incredible. I couldn't even see a ball moving that fast let alone deflect it. The Italians always seem to run out of gas near the end. The French were relentless though out of luck.

Great game. No mass substitutions. No endless benches. No long time outs, no commercial time-outs. Just guys running their hearts out for 2 hours. My dad thought it was anti-climatic to end on a pk shoot-out but Americans don't feel that way about Hockey so I don't understand the objection.

What a pity for Zidane to end his career that way. What pissed him off so much?

What a fabulous game. The only thing missing was the expression on Zidane's face in the locker room when the Italians won it.

Congratulations again to all Italians!!!

Travis