On Site Reports: The Gold Cup Final
On Sunday, your intrepid blogger and some of his more soccer-inclined friends ventured out of the relative safety of verdant Central Jersey for the freeway-striped land of North Jersey, specifically Giants Stadium, for the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final. We knew what we were in for by midnight Thursday night when Mexico beat Costa Rica in penalty kicks, setting up the USA-Mexico final everyone wanted (admittedly this was the USA’s “B” team). We knew the crowd would be pro-Mexican, but we had no idea how pro-Mexican until we got on the New Jersey Turnpike and got stuck in traffic 10 miles before the stadium.
Literally every other car had Mexican flags or Mexican jerseys hanging out the windows. Horns were honking, and cars and minivans were stuffed to the gills with fans of El Tricolores ready to cheer on their team.
As my friend so eloquently put it, “The Mexicans are so much better than us at carpooling.” Read the rest of this entry →
