Originally Posted by Allister
Strange as it may seem, not everyone follows bicycle racing. Even the beloved Lance can pass under many people's radar. Doesn't make them clueless, they just have different priorities.
What you should have done was ask her who this Sheryl Crow person is.
Tons of my so-called sports fan friends have no idea who Lance Armstrong is. Sad. But again, I don't follow baseball, so whenever they pop out some names from the perennial underachievers Red Sox, I would reply, "Who?".
What's even sadder is to see some of these guys claiming that they are soccer fans but not knowing who Nedved or Rooney are. Heck, they don't even know that Euro2004 is taking place.
Perhaps cycling, like soccer, is considered too non-American for the majority of us, single-language-speaking, Hollywood-movie-watching, foreign-news-ignoring, baseball-and-nothing-else-supporting, ethnocentric Americans.
