Blog 7: Editorial

The topic I chose to write about is the use of Vuvuzelas during this year’s World Cup in South Africa. I truly believe whether or not you are a soccer fan, the constant buzzing noise that was coming from those plastic horns killed the atmosphere during the games, not to mention annoyed the heck out of people while they were watching a match on the television. The big controversy is that blowing the Vuvuzelas is part of the African culture, kind of like a cow bell at a Mississippi State football game. How can you make an extremely large group of people quit a custom they’ve been participating in for years and/or decades? Well, I believe we should find the answer so that the situation with this year’s World Cup does not happen again. The World Cup is a celebration of the 32 nations that qualified and of all the others that did not but which still play and love the game; not just an Africa Cup. More than half of the players probably never experienced playing a game with that much of a distraction.

Concerns about the noise level of these horns distracting the athletes and damages the human ear spread to other parts of the world. Last week, Cyprus banned the vuvuzela after the authorities acknowledged the plastic horns as a potential weapon that could be used in riots at sports events.

I think that this post could be read by the majority of people in the U.S. The reason I think this is that soccer isn’t the most popular sport in America. The U.S.A. team finally does something to catch the American’s eyes. I know multiple non soccer fans that tried to watch a game but couldn’t enjoy it due to the constant annoying noise. This did not help Americans become bigger fans of this sport.

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