Soccer

Here is a test to see if you would like soccer.  Tell a group of kids to go out into the middle of a corn field.  Then see if you get any sense of enjoyment from watching the kids spend the majority of their time running relativity in the middle of that field.  If that doesn't sound like entertainment, you most likely won't like soccer, because that is what it is.  The few scoring chances that do exist so often do not translate into goals.  France and Uruguay just played to a 0 - 0 tie in the first round.  For this, people blew annoying horns for hours.  You could have gone to a school beginning marching band concert located on a football field, listen to kids blow on annoying horns as they ran around the field for for hours, and you would have seen the exact same amount of offense.  Lets be honest people, England's soccer team is probably a lot better than ours, yet we tied them today (don't get me started on the concept of ties in sports).  I bet England really feels silly for putting in all that extra time and effort into practice today.

I've thought about this today, and I believe our disinterest in soccer and our continued shunning of the metric system have led us to be the dominate country we are today.  We have somehow managed to distract the other countries with a sport that has no offense and a measuring system that has no method of accurately describing how tall someone is, all the while, we've been too busy being awesome and watching sports that don't suck.  Thoughts?

PS: Weak Sauce with the tie today England.  You can't even beat a country that doesn't care.