While sitting at our favorite watering hole outside of center field, Team Terry felt the weight of American support for our team. Its amazing, whether its a slightly unrecognized sport like ice dancing, or curling, or a much more heavily favored world sport such as soccer, Americans love to cheer their teams to victory. It is no big secret that soccer in the U.S. has no where near the following it has overseas. So to watch the bar quickly fill up at 10-am on a workday was very exciting! It was quite obvious from the suits and ties as opposed to jerseys that these fans were having "meetings" out by center field, just like we were, but nevertheless, the fan-base here is booming by the day, and chomping at the bit for wins, just as exciting as yesterday's! The American culture will have to evolve with our interest, to make jerseys in board rooms acceptable practice on World Cup days.
The bated breaths were almost too much to handle, until that sweet extra minute sealed the deal. The place was literally vibrating from the applause that didn't stop for many minutes after Landon Donovan's game winner. All in all a wonderful day at the "office". If you didn't get a chance to come out yesterday, thanks to Donovan you have another chance on Saturday! Don't forget your horns, because the U.S. as well as Baltimore are HERE TO PLAY, so watch out world!!!
To have such a growing fan-base in a town that doesn't have an MLS team should show you how badly Baltimoreans want the World Cup here! Help us make it happen by signing our petition at www.gousabid.com/baltimore!
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