{"id":1055,"date":"2003-07-23T21:56:07","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/23\/national-disgrace\/"},"modified":"2003-07-23T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2003-07-24T01:56:07","slug":"national-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/23\/national-disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"National Disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a377'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/nosoccer.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"154\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"326\">\n<p>As I write this, the US men&#8217;s national soccer team, ranked<br \/>\n        #9 in the world over more than 180 other national sides on our soccer-mad<br \/>\n        orb, is playing the reigning world champion and ultimate <em>artistes<\/em> of<br \/>\n        the sport, Brazil, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/uncomp\/articleshow?msid=91465\">semi-finals<br \/>\n        of the prestigious Gold Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Try as I may, with my full-service, $125 per month, 500 channel service<br \/>\n        from Comcast, I cannot watch this game.&nbsp;Where are America&#8217;s soccer<br \/>\n    fans?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p>It&#8217;s not that there is no soccer on TV tonight.&nbsp; Both<br \/>\n        the Boston Breakers and the New England Revolution, our local women&#8217;s<br \/>\n        and men&#8217;s pro teams, are on.&nbsp; But crimmeny, any real fan will tell<br \/>\n        you that you don&#8217;t watch your club team if the national side is on.&nbsp; And<br \/>\n        any chance to see Brazil in action, even if they did send their under-23<br \/>\n        team, is worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>How come there are 15 million kids playing soccer in the US, we are<br \/>\n        ranked in the world top ten, we can put 50,000 people in Gillette or<br \/>\n        RFK stadium, and yet nobody sees fit to televise the national team against<br \/>\n        the world champs?&nbsp; If I have any readers outside of the US, this<br \/>\n        must seem truly mad.&nbsp; As am I&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, the US men&#8217;s national soccer team, ranked #9 in the world over more than 180 other national sides on our soccer-mad orb, is playing the reigning world champion and ultimate artistes of the sport, Brazil, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/23\/national-disgrace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}