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Why is soccer so unpopular in the U.S.? Unless things have drastically changed, most kids grow up playing soccer in grade school, and many through high school. At least, that’s how it was when I was a kid. Everyone knows a Soccer Mom -- they’re a suburban staple. But on the professional level, there’s a general lack of interest in this particular part of North America.
I’d put money on the fact that the main reason for this is the complete lack of commercial time-outs. The clock just keeps running. Sure, you have your half-time… but you want to spend a good portion of that listening to a bunch of guys analyzing the game up to that point, and predicting what strategies each team will take going into the second half. The lack of “breaks” make soccer a sport that networks don’t want to go near. It seems like people have been trying to make soccer popular in the U.S. for as long as I can remember, with no success.
So we have the World Cup, and we can care about soccer for a month out of every four years.
Now, here’s Landon Donovan’s goal to beat Algeria and advance to knockout.
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After two days off from work (to be fair, let’s call it one and a half based on the fact that I was having calls forwarded to my cell phone from the studio) I had to actually venture out into the real world. And aside from the horrid road conditions, it wasn’t a bad day to get out there.
We’re working on a project that required an interview with Mr. David Montgomery, who is quite possibly the nicest owner of any sports franchise you’ll ever meet. We shot the interview in the media room at Citizen’s Bank Park, and I snapped a few quick photos with my phone, because hey, who knows when I’ll be in there again.
The one thing I didn’t get a picture of – and really wish I did – was Mr. Montgomery carrying one of our tripods and his assistant with the audio gear. I’ll explain.
After the interview, we left had some things in the lobby while we ran the first load of gear out to the trucks. As we started back to get the remaining equipment, Mr. Montgomery and his assistant were apparently on their way out and decided to carry it out for us. Just incredible.
On a side note, it was interesting to see that they plowed the CBP parking lots when I can’t imagine they’ll actually need them for anything. Needless to say, they’re more on the ball than the city of Philadelphia.
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