[the_old_crowd] Now completely OT, was Re: THE OLD CROWD - INTRO

[Parker Brown Nesbit]

David wrote:

> > Does that mean you like soccer?  I find that quite hard to believe
>as well.  David Beckham fever hasn't hit the US has it?

Well, sort of :)  People know him here mostly because he's married to one of 
the former Spice Girls.
Our local (Charleston, SC) paper has covered his private life more than 
they've covered his football life.

*I* know him because I'm an avid football fan (not American football, 
either.)
>
>One of the things that puzzled me on my recent visit to the US was
>that people seemed to know about Malcolm Glazer's takeover of Man
>U.  For a nation that is famously ignorant of foreign things (there
>was an item on the radio this morning about the lack of coverage of
>the recent French referendum in the USA), I thought that remarkable.


Again, the takeover was well covered in the Sports sections of papers.  
America is sports crazy (and seems to love scandals--the outcry from Man U 
fans was quite deafening  (and I don't blame them).

(There was coverage on the French referendum in our paper at least.  Some of 
us Americans aren't entirely ignorant of foreign things. Some of us, as a 
matter of fact, embrace them)

Parker, proud Royal Navy reenactor
>
>David