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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
Well there is a good side to that, you can PVR a game during the day and not know who wins on your drive home. In fact this was not even discussed during my sons soccer game and England had played that very day.
Calgary is great for that, since moving here in the 90s i have never had a score accidentally revealed to me by any flag waivers or for that matter, conspicuous silence in Italian or Argentinian neighborhoods.
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I guess that's a positive spin on things, but I'd rather be surrounded by the atmosphere. I spent the last few days in Montreal, and every afternoon we'd sit down out some pub and watch the games with a bunch of other fans, and everyone had a really good time watching countries they've never even been to. Half the fun of these events is the socialization involved.
I remember during the WC, a lot of places in NY closed down during the events, and allowed their employees to watch. It was hot-as-balls July anyway, so not like people work hard during that time. At one of my clients, I remember them setting up a giant projection screen in a public area for their employees to watch, and even brought in some beer etc. 90% of their employees were foreigners who weren't going to get any work done anyway, so might as well make it an event.