4 billion people probably don't have Comcast cable and see the NFL! I will be very surprised if the MLS ever passes the NHL more-less the NBA/NFL/MLB in the USA even with Beckham!!!! I don't think the Sgt was bashing soccer, only pointing out the insignificance in our mainstream here and apparently in Vietnam.
Dude - showing your ignorance - football is the biggest sport in Vietnam. The point of the story is that no one expected the team to qualify for the quarter finals, even some of the players. The best story about the team comes from last year, however. The Austrian coach, Artur Riedl, was suffering from kidney failure. He is so well loved in Vietnam that 100,000 people offered to donate their kidneys.
Oh, dear, GOD! The opinions of 4 billion people don't count because they don't get Comcast cable and can't see the NFL! Well how silly of them to "choose" to be born outside the US of A! In fact, a billion or more people can see the NFL - they just choose not to. It's not like the NFL doesn't trumpet their alleged viewership of the Super Bowl - but that's not numbers of people actually watching, that's just the numbers of people who live in countries where the game is shown and who could theoretically watch if they wanted to do so. A potential audience of a billion, but an actual audience of 100 million - most of whom are Americans. Guess what? Most people in the world don't want to watch the NFL. Even when it is available. The USA is not the world. Most people don't find our sports very interesting to watch, at all. It's time to stop the denial and soccer bashing. Yes, you guys were soccer-bashing. As to this guys wedding - I haven't bothered to read the article, but in a lot of countries weddings are very big deals and planned long, long in advance, and cost a lot of money (well, that's often true in the USA too); they might have even consulted astrological charts (as is done in a lot of traditional cultures) to determine the "ideal date" on which to get married; in which case, changing the date of the wedding at the last minute was not an option.
