>Buchanan and others are all in a fluff over the crowd reaction at the Rose Bowl during the Mexico/USA match.
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>http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44506
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>What does this event, in which Plaschke estimates 80,000 fans in the Rose Bowl could not control their contempt for the U.S. team and for the U.S. national anthem, tell us?
>...
>Say goodbye to Los Angeles. Say goodbye to California.
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>Know what it tells me? The citizens of the USA still don't give a crap about soccer. ;)

It has been said of soccer, as it was of Unix, that it is the sport of the future in the U.S. and always will be ;-) Personally I like the game a lot but it hasn't made much of a dent here overall. (Other than Portland, Oregon, evidently. They have a new MLS team and are going nuts for them).

Argentinians, now they know how to riot over soccer. Are you there, Hugo?

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/06/28/1306249/soccer-riot-could-affect-copa.html