Soccer? Not so much.

Mel and I got tickets to the Real (Ray-al) Salt Lake professional soccer game in their new stadium last night. It's an amazing stadium, and it's fun to have it so close to our house.

Soccer. Futbol. Whatever you want to call it, I just don't get what is so attractive about this game. Teams chase each other around for 90 minutes and they count themselves lucky if they put up one or two points on the board. Others will have different opinions, but to me, soccer is more painful to watch than golf and perhaps even steeplechase. If you ever get a chance to watch a soccer player collide with an opposing player, they fall to the ground and writhe in pain for at least 45 seconds, or until the refs stop the gameplay. Their acting is worse than a B-list actor on a TeleNovela on Univision. At least Max Hall was man enough to keep getting up after getting pounded to the ground for the thirtieth time by the TCU defense this week.

Although we did have some fun. We laughed pretty hard when they started handing out $50 gift cards to KFC. $50 at KFC? Now THAT'S a party! Sign me up!