World Cup fever. Did you have it? Our home did. And anticipating Sunday’s 11:00 a.m. final I bought all of the ingredients for a huge breakfast so we could enjoy the final game over a family breakfast.

It has always amazed me how the rest of the world is transfixed and emotionally connected to soccer (football). The scenes of highly emotional fans reacting to their country’s games throughout the world were astounding. Yet here, in the United States, soccer does not enjoy nearly the same level of popularity coming in far behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey.

That does seem to be changing though. This current generation of young adults grew up playing soccer and seem to enjoy watching it on the world stage. My step son is a summer associate in a large law firm and he told me that the World Cup games were on every day in a conference room during lunch where all of the associates were encouraged to watch.

Hopefully, in four years the American team will again reach the World Cup. Would you watch it then? Did you watch it now?