Soccer, hockey and basketball elude me.

Baseball, football and golf are my sports interests.

To each their own.

Obviously soccer is an international favorite but I've never paid much attention to it.

you haven't watched Ted Lasso

After that it was a silly sit com.

That, in itself, makes it beautiful. But Fox are doing their damndest to enshittify it like everything else.
If there are haters, I suppose they’re Americans. It’s in character. Karens need not reply.

Last night my hubby went on a twenty minute tirade about how he hates soccer... LMFAO

Just to be part of the cultural moment at hand. Then I'll probably be vacuuming, doing laundry and dishes and such. You know, so there's some actual excitement involved.

Seems like the more hyped the sport, the less interested in it that I am. YMMV

Adding an intangible number of minutes at the end of regulation leads to anti-climactic endings.
They just added six minutes to the England-Croatia game. Who can predict that in advance?

The people playing soccer might be a distraction, though.