@conncarroll Maybe it's because everyone recognizes that is the single most entertaining thing ever to happen in a soccer game, so there's no point in playing any further.
Quit while you're ahead.
@GrayConnolly It's because it is a fall sport in US highschools and thus became the anti-football.
At least through the '90s, the single most common reason a boy might play soccer was that his mother thought football too violent and wouldn't let him play.
@AbakpaJob In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
It’s really cool how they found a way to include all 3 hosts in the World Cup Final:
🇺🇸 Stadium in New Jersey
🇨🇦 Noxious smoke from Canadian wildfires
🇲🇽 Explosive diarrhea parasite from Mexico
@patrickhealynyt@nytimes Why has there never been any reckoning with the Times firing three editors, including the Ed page editor, for publishing an op-ed from a sitting Senator, who was expressing an opinion held by 80% of the American people?