TriviaNYC Podcast #38: Crazed, Orgiastic Banshees Edition
Did you see Dempsey’s Pub all over the teevee this week? You’d think they were showing all the World Cup Games there over the next few weeks or something.
It turns out that we Yanks care about what the rest of the world thinks after all. The London Mirror’s headline in their World Cup Preview (”England, Algeria, Slovenia, Yanks = EASY”) doesn’t look so hot now, does it? I mean, sure, the English are still the better team, but it turns out the Americans officially don’t suck at this game. And people all over this country are noticing it, so hell yeah for that.
I know there are other things going on in the world, and the environmental and social disasters that were going all slow-burn on this country and the world last week are still blowing up this week, but here’s how I see it: if you’re going to have bread & circuses, then at least have good bread and circuses that are genuinely entertaining. And that England/USA soccer game on Saturday was genuinely entertaining. Any meathead moron Americans who didn’t thnk so should go back to their golf telecasts and college (US) football kabuki foregone conclusions and give up the lie that their sports matter to anyone else, even other people into sports. Everyone’s welcome on this bus except haters, who can take one big step back.
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