A World Cup Boycott? Count Me In

Wherein the author discusses the laudable notion of boycotting the 2014 World Cup in Brazil (note that this was written before Brazilian soccer fans beheaded and quartered a referee… who had just stabbed a player). The author gives two valid reasons:

1) Soccer fans, a.k.a. “football hooligans.” Fans of this game seem to be driven into a psychopathic frenzy at statistically disturbing rates. Why? Well…

2) The game is fricken’ boring. He puts it well:

If you remember the last World Cup, which ended in a dreary 1-0 victory by the self-absorbed Spanish over the swinish Dutch, you’ll have no trouble kissing this one goodbye. Spain didn’t log the winning goal until the 116th minute of the championship game. This is worse than watching paint dry. This is like watching paint play soccer.

Watching sports has always bored me. But watching soccer has always been *painfully* boring. It’s no wonder the spectators take to gettin’ likkered up and trashing the joint.

America has troubles enough these days without soccer catching on.