In Reply to: Any excitement over the World Cup? America 250? posted by DSCBruin on June 10, 2026 at 12:17:52
It's a great chance to watch some of the best players in the world all in one place. Sure beats getting committed to watching games of a bunch of leagues around the world to catch them in different combinations.
Teams also play harder for the national team ... well mostly. (Check out for The Bus on Netflix for the 2010 French national team meltdown. It was epic when it happened, the backstory is even epic-er.)
It's also a chance to watch teams play a much more simplified tactics. Because national teams are a collection of players who rarely play on the same team all year, and don't get to play together a whole lot, they need to strip their style down to a more manageable and straightforward basics that even a dummy like me could wrap his mind around. :)
It's the greatest and most fun sports event in the world, followed by NCAA basketball tourney, a few notches back. (Not a fan of Olympics at all -- an event loaded up with the kinds of sports that I never watch outside of Olympics? No can vibe with that.)
The 250th? 250 is just a number. Nations that fall apart after 1250, 300 years are a dime a doozen in history. Check with me on the 500th, or better yet, 1000th. Now *that's something that may be worth celebrating, if it ever happens.