Oh, yes. Oh, how I have waited. And now it is here. No longer will this American fan settle for first round elimination, or even the quarter finals. It is time for our nation to avenge the unjust loss to the cheating Germans and take back the championship loss to Brazil that was our birth right!
Why is it that I get so excited over the World Cup? I am no huge soccer fan. I think I like the idea of being a football aficionado more than the reality. But I am genuinely amped up for this. Maybe it's because the World Cup is what the Olympics are supposed to be – a national testing ground. But with the Olympics, you're left with so many individual events (oh my god, can you believe Dan Jansen just landed that triple sow cow during the long jump?) it's hard to grasp onto the national fervor that the World Cup produces. Our closest equivilent would have to be the 1980 miracle on ice (note: a team event!). But in the World Cup, even if the US goes out early, I can at least latch on to the Netherlands (go big orange!) or Cote d'Ivorie (watch out, Argentina) for the remainder of the tourney. By the way, I've been to a Bundesliga game at Olympic Stadium (site of the final game this year) and came home with a scarf that read "God is with us and against our enemies." God loves football – and for the next month, so should you.
October 3, 2006 at 9:41 am |
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