Quote Originally Posted by alpinerabbit
I can't stand the commercialization.
No offense AR, but I had to chuckle at your comment. You should see televised sports in the US, it's all about the commercials !

Someone somewhere commented that soccer/football hasn't really caught on in the US because games are not televised as much as for the other big US sports (US football, baseball, basketball). And why might that be? Probably because there are not all the lengthy timeouts in soccer, where commercials can be stuck in ($$ ka-ching $$) !

Ah, that said, there's lots of coverage of the World Cup right now and I'm getting sucked right in. What amazing athletes.

Just as well. I did a crazed kamikaze housecleaning run yesterday and I'm SORE today*, so all I'm good for is watching TV and wandering outside occadionally to work on evening up my tan lines.

* Proving once again that when you embark on an entirely new physical activity you should take it slow.