Love making cameo appearances inside the iris.

Is there any sporting event with more bandwagon potential other than the World Cup? Maybe it's just Canada, but I have never seen more sporadic and random support for anything in my entire life.

Have a Grandfather who once knew a guy that was Portuguese? Go Portugal. Honestly, in many cases I feel the decisions by people on whom to support are far more arbitrary than this particular circumstance.

Facebook and Twitter are abuzz with old allegiances and new predictions for whoever the team of the moment is. I don't pretend to know much about soccer, nor do I pretend to know anything about specific teams in this World Cup.

Quite honestly, I'm not convinced people actually care. You hear this one a lot: "I've been supporting them the whole way!"

Really? Because aside from the buzz around the Ireland/France handball fiasco in the qualifiers, I've never heard anyone here discuss how their "nation" fared in the preliminary rounds.

Now, to be fair, when we all watch the Olympics do we know the names of all of our athletes before the TV tells us? No, but that's the same way for almost everyone. A large percentage of the world watches soccer, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find Ski Jump coverage during any other time than the Olympics.
The good news: just a few months until hockey's back, a time when we can all stop kidding ourselves.

Eat your heart out Mr. Lennon. Took this just as the sun was setting on a random Hamilton field. Yes that's a powerline. This is Hamilton without the ugly.