There are big events coming down the pike in the sports world and two in particular have me in dour moods.
First is the World Cup. The handjobs that FIFA hands out to Not My President Trump are blatant enough but the whole looking away and not commenting on how fans are going to get into the United States or far worse, back out again is pretty egregious. Half of the business model is getting butts in seats. But if 1/3 of your games require people to give up social media account info and your phone password, how does that help? Plus tourism is already tanked here so service infrastructure is already impaired.
Which leads to my second pissy point, the Olympics in Los Angeles. How are people going to get here? And how will they escape the LAX area? And why are events being auctioned off to other states. If you are an Olympian that has to fly to L.A. for the opening ceremonies and then trudge back through the airport and fly to Oklahoma for your events, that is sub-optimal.
I think it is high time that these big sporting events find permanent homes. Greece and the Olympics of Summer are a good match simply based on history and I think that either Spain or England based on their stadiums and level of soccer intensity would make good fits for World Cups. And it would stop this constant re-invention of the wheel.
What beers do you pair with sporting events? Obviously, bitter or sour beers for me for the two mentioned above or glitter beer to represent the greed inherent in that and the College Football Playoffs but I would land on a hefeweizen a cloudy clove beer that some people think you need to add a lemon too. Just enough contentiousness for me.
