Thank you all for your answers to my question What’s so special about the world cup?. Here is a summary of the comments:

Geeks watch the world cup via telnet. When you watch a match, you don’t watch just two teams playing, you watch two nations. The World Cup gives the only possibility where the “poor” nation can […]

I do not watch or follow the world cup games - or any other “ball” games for this matter. I could care less who wins or loses. But I guess, I’m just a minority. Maybe because I’m a geek, and geeks don’t care about sports. But I know many geeks who do care about sports. […]