World Cup Madness

No, not the Olympics...that's every two years. No matter what they say about it being an every-four-year event, it's really two years, since they have that Summer and Winter business going on.

(and where are the Spring and Fall games?)

 

WORLD CUP!

If you enjoy sports, know that it is the most-widely viewed sports event ever.

If you don't enjoy sports, know that there are hot mens running around, who often get shirtless after a match.

 

Somehow, after years of falling asleep whenever sports were present, soccer and rugby stuck to the head stuffing I call brains. Not sure why - maybe because there's actually activity and skill involved, unlike baseball and football. Tennis is also fun, but boring as hell to watch. Golf? Neither fun to play or watch, unless it's mini-golf, and even then it's only good for about an hour before being mind-numbing.

 

Somehow at work, I became the go-to person for the World Cup. All I did was put up a bracket poster to track the games, and ask if we could turn the lobby television channel to some channel that plays the games.

How does one become a soccer guru?

Wikipedia

You too can become an instant quasi-not-really-expert on anything known to man...or at least a dozen people who created and edited a page on the internet.

 

The best part of the World Cup? The television at work.

The bank provides a random assortment of channels. On the surface, the channels that are filtered out make sense...until you actually make a list of the channels that are available.

At that point, it looks like someone in Accounting was drawing lines on another sheet of paper and the ink bled through onto the tv service contract, thus eliminating some useful channels.

One of these would be ESPN...which is not a channel I normally say in conjunction with the word "useful".

The channel that we do get? Univision.

YES!

Do you know what it means when you're watching the World Cup on Univision?

It means that you don't have a damn clue what's going on because it's all in Spanish - and that makes it easier to actually work and look up to see what's going on occasion, rather than just stare at the tv all day.

 

It also means that the game is more entertaining. There is a world of difference between the announcers on ESPN and the announcers on Univision.

ESPN likes to speak very stately, very knowledgeable, and as if they were a newscast.

In a word? Boring.

 

Univision likes to get into the game, as if they were...oh, I don't know...watching a sporting event!

When a goal is made? You'll know!

Because they scream GOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The lessons learned today?

1. Soccer is fun.

2. Wikipedia is a great tool.

3. Univision is entertaining as all hell.

4. If Donald had been born speaking Spanish, he might have been more interested in sports growing up.