Call me crazy, but I have ‘World Cup Fever’

Twenty years ago, I would have laughed out loud if someone had told me I would be racing home on an early lunch hour to watch a soccer game in Brazil on TV. But it happened twice this week.

So now that we have established the fact that the world does change, let’s explore this phenomenon called World Cup soccer. Unlike billions of people – and I mean most everybody on the planet – I never played soccer growing up. I don’t remember having any friends who played soccer growing up, either. I learned about it in my late 30’s from my children, who all played soccer for various teams, including Benjamin Russell High School. My wife Mary Lyman was a fanatic soccer mom for a decade.