FIFA World Cup

The Siege Mentality: My First Sale Day Playbook The first sale day for World Cup tickets? Everyone will tell you it’s a lottery. They say it’s all about luck, about getting a low number in the queue. That’s pure crap....

The Hunt for the Impossible Price Tag You see the headline, right? “How Much Is World Cup Trophy Worth?” I bet your brain immediately jumps to the easy answer. You think gold weight. You think, maybe a couple hundred thousand...

The Painful Truth: Zero World Cups and My History of Bad Bets I swear, sometimes you think you know something, but the moment you try to prove it, you realize how much crap you’ve forgotten. This whole thing started a...

The whole thing started because my buddy, Mike, keeps bugging me. He’s got this crazy idea that he’s going to drag his whole family down to Houston for a week just to catch any World Cup game. He kept telling...

The Great World Cup Dive: Did We Ever Win? And Why I Suddenly Started Caring. I’ve been asked this question a hundred times, mostly by folks who only watch soccer every four years: Has the US ever actually won the...

So, the question, right? Has America actually won the big one? The FIFA World Cup? You hear this all the time, especially from folks who only tune into soccer every four years. They see us dominating in the Olympics, kicking...

When you first fire up that old Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup game, you just wanna jump in and fly, right? You pick the teams you like—maybe the Irish because you love their robes, or the English because, well, you’re...

I Was Sick of Guessing, So I Built a System Man, every four years it’s the same old crap. Everyone and their uncle starts shouting names for the Golden Ball. It’s always the same three guys, and they never actually...

Man, buying the new Germany World Cup jersey felt like it should be the easiest thing in the world, right? You pick your size, pay your money, and you’re set. Nope. Not even close. I swear, the official gear companies...

The Idea: Killing the Beast Before It Killed Me You know how everyone talks about “the hustle” and how you need seven different side-gigs to make it? I bought into that crap completely. By the time 2024 ended, I was...