By VictorM:

David Beckham and his Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team visited Edmonton mid week to play an exhibition game against a second tier team from Vancouver. Commenting on David Beckham's arrival, Robert Tychkowski, of the Edmonton Sun had this to say:

It's like meeting cricket great Imran Khan Niazi, or catching a brief glimpse of bowling legend Mark Roth, or bumping into one of the top 25 javelin throwers of all time - a rare opportunity to see a once in a generation athlete in a goofy sport.

My first reaction, based on the rest of the article, is that Mr. Tychkowski was trying to be funny. But I'm going to give him some credit and refuse to accept that someone can be that bad at comedy.

What I believe is more plausible is that Mr. Tychkowski is the stereotypical Canadian who wants to be like the Americans, and so, to be like the cool kids, he picks on soccer. What he doesn't realize is that that is so 90's. The cool kids, for the most part, have all moved on to either ignoring soccer or accepting the inevitable -- that soccer is here to stay.

The Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League averaged 36, 843 in 2007. David Beckham and his mediocre Galaxy team, in an exhibition game against a team that's not even from Edmonton and plays in the lower division, played in front of 37,104.

Goofy, eh?