grasswire

Must say that I am very glad that Germans didn’t win Euro. The mere fact that I did not watch a single game really does not make me a true fan of the sport but it does not mean that I didn’t have an opinion on the subject. Why didn’t I watch the games? Well, first of all we don’t have a TV. Or I should say, we don’t care to have a TV. Perhaps you can call it reverse snobism of a sort but unlike people who obsessively buy giant plasma/LCD TV sets, our living room is (for now) “screen-less”, a fact that rarely escapes our mostly amased first-time visitors.
But back to football, one thing is sure, it does have beneficial effects on social communication – you have probably noticed the ease with which you can strike politer conversation with people you hardly know, from grocery store seller to your new taciturn next door neighbor. And those little stickers of football players that kids collect adorn the basement doors in apartment buildings for years to come.