Your Disinterested-In-Soccer Trolling Tweets Are Grating

Clint Dimpsey scored a goal yesterday in the first 30 seconds of the US's World Cup yesterday. I am pretty sure that the sound waves of the exaltations combined with the jumping up and down may have caused a minor earthquake throughout the entire nation. It was incredible. A picture-perfect start for the US that nobody could have predicted.

After screaming like a mad man and hugging my coworkers, I went to check Twitter to see the collective freakout that normally takes place when historic moments in sports just occur. 90% of the tweets I was looking at were some combination of "OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG", "Holy. Shit." and "FKLDAJEFOIWFIJIAJCD9A38RJMIASDF8" (presumably a pocket-tweet mid-hug). Euphoric is the only word to describe what everyone around me was feeling and clearly the sentiment was shared by millions on social media as well.

And the other 10%? Well, have you ever had one of those friends that goes out of their way to be disinterested in something that you care about deeply? The type of people that will sit there and passive-aggressively mutter snide remarks? That, unfortunately, was the remainder of my Twitter feed.

I get it - soccer isn't for everyone. Some think it is slow and boring. Others hate all the flopping. Most just don't understand it.

But the World Cup is every four years and it is pretty easy to avoid it if you aren't interested in it. So is it really necessary to sit on Twitter and be the biggest contrarian possible by subtweeting or blatantly tweeting about not caring that Clint Dempsey just made history? Because if millions of people from a melting pot of backgrounds can be brought together by one month of soccer every four years, the event has to be somewhat important. So it seems like you could probably just keep your opinions to yourself.

And, sure, rooting for the US once every four years in the World Cup is super trendy and most will stop caring the moment the US is out. But isn't that the exact same as the Summer Olympics? Or the Winter Olympics? So if you can enjoy the Olympics, you should at least be able to understand how others can do the same for the World Cup. That's a good enough reason to just keep your fingers off that send button.