World Cup Discussion Thread

[Wyrm]

A similar story: We have a law here in Germany that if you order something online, you have two weeks time to return it to get a refund, without having to state why - even if the thing you bought works perfectly fine. Now shortly before the last World Cup started, there had been a dramatic increase in sales of video projectors, followed by a similarly dramatic amount of projectors getting sent back for a refund 14 days later. :DLooks like a lot of people used this 14 days trial period to watch the World Cup on slightly bigger screens.

Sounds like what a lot of people over here do during the Superbowl.

My sis lives in Germany now so we're definitely getting more exposure to it than most Americans (I've seen about 2 World Cup commercials on ESPN while I was watching the French Open tennis tournament), but it's not even close to the amount of coverage you get in other countries (i.e. Germany). You know an event is big when it gets its own Nutella.

Oh yeah, I'll be rooting for Germany as well, but if/when they play the US, I'll have to root for my country (honestly though, I didn't even realise the US had a team entered, let alone that it was ranked 5).