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Ok. Now, I'm not into soccer let alone sports in general, but I'm digging this World Cup shindig. For whatever reason, I can actually sit for 2 hours watching men run up and down a field smashing into each other while manipulating a blob the size of a melon. But what's been bothering me is how much the American broadcasting systems aren't into it. They just report it in a little blurb at the end of the newscast. This thing happens, what, every 4 years? It's like the Olympics! How come we don't care? I've been getting the games on Telemundo, which is perfectly fine, but I've seen the Korean station broadcasting it simultaneously, then why doesn't an American network cover it? We've been seeing the public outpouring of World Cup Fever, even the front pager in the LA Times on how enthusiastic the South Koreans were. We can't say that this event isn't important enough to be covered. It's like when USA got eliminated (because we're the arrogant bastards that everyone perceives us to be), this man said that he dropped all interest just because USA got chopped. Just because your country's team is eliminated, does that mean that all interest in the sport is extinguished at the same time? I don't think it's justified to shun a sport because your team lost. Yeah, it's a bummer, and who doesn't want to root for their team? But that doesn't mean that the game has become any less. Just because soccer isn't nationally televised to the extent of baseball, basketball, or football, doesn't mean that it's something to scoff at. Especially if it's a giant international phenomenon that seems to be drawing in the rest of the world. I guess what I'm trying to say is that just because it's not the most important thing to the USA, it still deserves attention because it is important on a global scale.
And no. This doesn't just apply to the World Cup.
But is it just because the World Cup is not lucrative enough for American networks? Is it not popular enough? What makes soccer different? I don't understand. We have poker championships being broadcast, crappy reality shows, new-fangled talent shows with obscure and novel acts, celebrity-worshiping bits that happen every evening. How come we can't show an international sport that happens once every 4 years?
I know this is something small, but it is still picking thorns into my fingers.
And no. This doesn't just apply to the World Cup.
But is it just because the World Cup is not lucrative enough for American networks? Is it not popular enough? What makes soccer different? I don't understand. We have poker championships being broadcast, crappy reality shows, new-fangled talent shows with obscure and novel acts, celebrity-worshiping bits that happen every evening. How come we can't show an international sport that happens once every 4 years?
I know this is something small, but it is still picking thorns into my fingers.