>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?
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>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's the same here at the 58th parallel. Not much interest in the game. Although, TPTB have the elementary schools playing soccer. Maybe the plan is to educate them so that in the future the kids will know the difference between real sport and kicking a ball up and down a field for an hour and a half.