Dave O'Brien, while calling the England-Portugal World Cup quarterfinal match commented on the 79% market-share viewership in England for their previous World Cup match. Color commentator Marcelo Balboa, without apparent irony, said that "this is where US soccer is trying to get to...where we need to grow as a sport."

Soccer fan though I am, this naïve and quixotic comment had me doing a spit-take with my Ovaltine.