For some reason it was on television today here, and with nothing better to do and nothing else on I actually watched it for about 20 minutes.
In the past I have very harshly ranted endlessly about how absolutely sucky a sport soccer is, and I have to say that after this I apologize...I was completely underestimating it's crappiness before and was going a lot easier on it than I should have. If this was some showcase by somebody at the television network to try to get more people interested in it here they have utterly, utterly, failed. Even if it instituted drastic rule changes I have suggested on this board in the past I don't think it could redeem it or make me not fall asleep during it let along want to watch it. People like to complain that baseball is boring for example, but even in it's worse moments I still get the sense something is happening and things are moving forward.
The US screws up a lot of things in the world and it's embarrassing in a lot of ways, but I have to hand it one thing. We don't like some abomination like that to the point we have made it a major sport. Why the rest of the non-North American world likes something like that I will never know. I'm not sure I ever want to know.
Out of all the legacies England has left behind, the creation, popularization, and spread of soccer has to be one of the worst ones. (I'm only half-joking.)
After those 20 minutes of me forcing myself to give it a shot, and I really tired, I couldn't take it anymore and switched the channel to a sewing show on public television, because those were the only two things I had to watch.