User blog comment:Freelance Grammar Nazi/World Cup?/@comment-2004850-20100616014646

I have to agree with the article. It's one thing to bring a piece of culture to an event, but this is effectively hurting, hindering, and annoying teams and the audience. Maybe the South African teams are used to it, but all the others have not been conditioned to play in such an environment. They're used to a varied amount of sound throughout the game and blasts of noise during goals. Though this is my personal opinion, I also don't see how an incredibly loud hum is more exhilarating than chants, cheers, and songs. All in so many different languages and pitches. A lot of it doesn't even flow, except when the stadium explodes into sound when a team scores. But the shaky, ragged sounds are what make it so fun and energetic.

Here's something else that might interest people. Anybody hear about the extreme censorship in North Korea over the World Cup? It's pretty crazy. We get to watch the North Koreans play, but actual North Koreans wont be able to. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6649440/Kim-Jong-il-bans-World-Cup-coverage-unless-North-Korea-win.html

@FGN - Oh, I in now way meant to indicate that they're on the same level. We don't really have anything specifically American that I can think of that are used in sports games. I was using it as a comparison because if the horns were used like the noise-makers, it wouldn't be so much of a problem (used during goals, not throughout the entire game).