Tweet of the Day -- World Cup Soccer

From Jim Geraghty of National Review:

"You Americans are too unsophisticated to appreciate the finer points of the beautiful gam--OH MY GOD HE JUST BIT THAT GUY!" #WorldCup2014
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) June 24, 2014

From another sports fan, who just doesn't get the hype of the World Cup:

I suspect that one of the reasons mainstream American sports fans resist soccer (as a fan sport, not a recreational pastime for youth) is because of the breathless insanity of soccer partisans. I don’t know what it is about soccer, but the people who love tennis and hockey and lacrosse never try to frog-march the rest of the sports world into following them. They’re happy being fans of a niche sport. Soccer people are different.

The best explanations are the simplest.