World Cup Buzz

My 10-year-old son is on the disabled list this summer, his right arm encased in a hefty shoulder-to-hand cast. Otherwise, I'm sure he would have found better things to do on Friday morning than watch the first game of the World Cup. That match ended in a 1-1 tie between South Africa and Mexico, a dull score that I thought would break my son's World Cup fever. But there he was on Sunday, sitting in front of another World Cup broadcast, and this time my wife was intently watching Ghana knock off Serbia with him.

What was going on? Neither mother nor son had shown much interest in soccer or expressed their intentions to while away the weekend watching matches featuring players from countries my boy can't even locate on a map. As things turn out, both of them had been lulled into a trance-like state, thanks to the incessant, droning buzz of the vuvuzela that dominated television broadcasts of the matches.

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