That thing going on in Qatar
Dec. 19th, 2022 04:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melliciousAs anybody who knows me at all can tell you, I'm a huge baseball fan, to the exclusion of all other sports, basically. I mean, I'll watch other stuff occasionally but I've gotten totally bored with football, plus the Texans totally suck, and have for a good while now. (And while I dragged Rob to so many Astros games he finally got interested in baseball as a defense mechanism, he's pretty much indifferent to all other sports.)
But I have to say, I got interested in the World Cup this year, pretty much for the first time ever. Here's my entire history with soccer: I think I went to some sort of pro soccer game once (late 70s/early 80s? was there some kind of attempt at a league around then?) and I actually played intramural soccer a little bit at UT. And I mean it about "a little bit." (The only thing I was good at at all was getting in the way of the ball.) But I didn't grow up on it, nobody American and my age did - certainly not in Texas, at least. Kids' soccer was a thing that happened considerably after I was too old for it.
Anyway, I was actually rooting for Argentina by the end, mostly because of Messi. That French dude (whose name I promptly forgot) is pretty good too, but I like for the old guys (what was he, like 35 or something?) to be able to end their career properly. And the US managed to not look too terrible either.
But I have to say, I got interested in the World Cup this year, pretty much for the first time ever. Here's my entire history with soccer: I think I went to some sort of pro soccer game once (late 70s/early 80s? was there some kind of attempt at a league around then?) and I actually played intramural soccer a little bit at UT. And I mean it about "a little bit." (The only thing I was good at at all was getting in the way of the ball.) But I didn't grow up on it, nobody American and my age did - certainly not in Texas, at least. Kids' soccer was a thing that happened considerably after I was too old for it.
Anyway, I was actually rooting for Argentina by the end, mostly because of Messi. That French dude (whose name I promptly forgot) is pretty good too, but I like for the old guys (what was he, like 35 or something?) to be able to end their career properly. And the US managed to not look too terrible either.
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