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The magic of sports
May. 3rd, 2014 01:00 pmI'm boycotting the World Cup this year. I've ranted about it before so you all know why. However, with the world's most awaited football tournament starting 40 days from now, the media explosion is picking up - ads, jerseys, your favorite football players everywhere and the music...
Football discussions/rants follow in which I go through all the reasons why I believed I could easily ignore 'Brazil 2014'.
( I'm fairly indifferent to the host )
( Reviewing past WC songs )
Despite all this - my moral objections, how average the tournament is, how the teams are generally the average qualifying ones, how misplaced the songs are...I'm surprised. When the ad came on TV yesterday, blaring Pitbull's atrocious world cup song and showing me teams that I don't care about, my heart was racing, my breathing shallowed and I just wanted to watch and be in football. I still have the fever, even with all my moral objections and preparation to ignore the World Cup this year. I'm still not watching the World Cup, but this is going to be more difficult than I thought.
Eep.
Football discussions/rants follow in which I go through all the reasons why I believed I could easily ignore 'Brazil 2014'.
( I'm fairly indifferent to the host )
( Reviewing past WC songs )
Despite all this - my moral objections, how average the tournament is, how the teams are generally the average qualifying ones, how misplaced the songs are...I'm surprised. When the ad came on TV yesterday, blaring Pitbull's atrocious world cup song and showing me teams that I don't care about, my heart was racing, my breathing shallowed and I just wanted to watch and be in football. I still have the fever, even with all my moral objections and preparation to ignore the World Cup this year. I'm still not watching the World Cup, but this is going to be more difficult than I thought.
Eep.
