Yet Another Reason For Me To Hate Soccer
What... THIS guy again?!

Never let it be said that I'd argue with the wisdom of Sheik Nasser bin Sliman Al-Omar Yerbouti... or whatever the hell his name is.

Here I was, home early on a Friday afternoon. ESPN 2 was airing the World Cup. The good ESPN was showing the NCAA Baseball Super Regionals. The East Toilet Seat State Brownwaves were up against The Fighting Question Marks of Wassamattafuh U. or some such. Needless to say, I opted for baseball. After all, in the words of former baseball great, Chico Esquela, "beisbol been beddy, beddy goo' to me".

Anyhow, the ball game's over, so I cruise the 'net. And what do mine eyes behold? Sheik Yerbouti railing against the World Cup. Or as the headline read; 'People Who Watch the World Cup Will Have to Answer on Judgment Day'.

In the Sheiks own words "I am saying to the fathers, to the mothers, and to the people who watch these games: On Judgment Day, a page in the book will be opened for you, and it will say that you sat and watched the games. Will this make you happy or miserable? Will this make you happy on Judgment Day, when you face Allah, or will you wish you had never watched these games?"

OK, OK... call me Mr. Cautious, but I for one have no desire to risk eternal hellfire in the next world (or beheading in this one) if'n I watch European Professional Kick-Ball. After all, who are we to argue with a guy who had a song by KC and the Sunshine Band named for him (and looks an awful lot like Frank Zappa)?