If you watched any of the World Cup this weekend, it was IMPOSSIBLE to miss the nonstop BUZZING in the stadium. It sounded like South Africa was suffering from the worst killer bee infestation of all time.
--Well, the buzzing is caused by fans blowing on a three-foot-long plastic trumpet called a vuvuzela (--it's pronounced voo-voo-ZELL-ah).
--They make a sound that's 130 decibels . . . which is 10 higher than the human pain threshold. And they're an African soccer tradition.
--Unfortunately, they're COMPLETELY overshadowing the rest of the World Cup.
--The TV broadcast partners hate them. The half-a-million soccer fans who are visiting from other continents hate them.
--And the players hate them SO much, some of them are blaming the vuvuzelas for all the LOW-SCORING GAMES this weekend.
--Patrice Evra is the captain of the French World Cup team, and he says the noise was a big reason for his team's zero-zero tie with Uruguay.
--He said, quote, "We can't sleep at night because of the vuvuzelas. People start playing them from 6 A.M. We can't hear one another out on the pitch because of them."
--For now, they're still allowed at the World Cup. According to Sepp Blatter, who runs the federal soccer association FIFA, getting rid of them would be like "Europeanizing" the tournament.
--But the World Cup committee will be meeting again this week, to discuss whether to ban them and save the games.
(Yahoo Sports)
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