To Follow Up...

About ten minutes after I posted my bit about soccer last night, they announced the attendance for the USA-Argentinian at the Meadowlands last night - 78,000+!
So I suppose my concern is really that I don't have enough friends who enjoy soccer.

Watching Italy-Netherlands Euro match now. The Dutch are up 3-0 and just keep attacking. The Italians are still threatening because, as the commentators put it, "The Dutch just don't play defense. It's not in their genetics." God, I love the Dutch side, streaming down the pitch in their bright orange unis...

It's not the worst thing in the world.

But I think it's a shame that more people in America don't appreciate soccer.
I had more to say here, but I think that any mention of the sheer beauty of the game (the speed, the strategy, the incredible fitness of the athletes) would make me sound like a sports elitist. And the last thing I need is for there to be one more thing that people think I'm stuck up about.