World Cup Musings, Part 1

Australia: What's the deal with the uniforms? Why are the colors on their flag red, white, and blue but so often when I see their uniforms they are green and yellow. In this world cup they wore nice two-tone blue with yellow jerseys as they were getting their asses handed to them by Germany. Maybe time to go back to the green and yellow. And do they have the worst national anthem in the world? It might be the most boring, bland anthem I've ever heard.

What about the Netherlands? So close but so far. I mean, they love soccer and they love skating. And they are very good at both. If you put the two together I'll bet they could play some great hockey. Shame they don't...

What's the deal with those horns everyone is blowing during the game? On TV it sounds like an angry swarm of bees attacking for the whole game!

For those of you who don't understand soccer (including me!), here is a summary of some basic strategies you'll see the teams using:
http://www.pdviz.com/wold-cup-team-strategys-for-the-world-cup?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Infographie+%28Infographie%29

Here is a page with some World Cup Simulated Odds, if you want to see who is expected to do well:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/06/world-cup-simulated-odds.html
As usual, Brazil is looking good. ;)

By the way, I call this Part 1, but there's no guarantee I'll watch another game. ;)