Date: July 6th, 2026 9:59 PM Author: sapphire gas station mediation
the same reason people pretend to care about olympic sports, they are very bored and anything on the tv that shuts down their brain and lets them get drunk and eat wings is a good distraction from reality and following a herd is their most basic instinct
I used to believe the US was the greatest country in the world and we ought to be the best at everything if we just did our best and used our minds. So in the 90s when I learned that we weren't especially good at soccer this seemed to me like a wrong that ought to be corrected. That's why I started caring about international soccer, even though I see now how messed up our country is, in lots of ways that matter more than sports.