The most influential sports in the world is undoubtedly football. Football is known as the world's largest ball. Whether it is the European League, the World Cup, or stars, celebrities, celebrities, and surrounding areas, they all have infinite influence. The World Cup of Football can even be compared with the Olympics, and it is a luxurious feast every four years. The 1994 World Cup will soon land in the United States this summer, and then it will be a sleepless carnival all night.

However, in the United States, football must stand aside. Americans are not interested in football at all. Not only does it have a national professional league, but even football is not called football, but soccer. The so-called "football" refers to football in the United States, which is the most popular national sport in the North American continent.

Rugby is an indispensable part of American culture. Whether it is TV series or movies, music or books, or even slang and popular words, you can feel the powerful influence of rugby anytime and anywhere. Not to mention football, even baseball, which has been named "national ball", is not as basic as football in the United States.

Although Hugo had seen Americans' madness about football before, he could only personally feel what fanaticism was after he actually arrived at the scene.

Walk south along Sunset Avenue, turn into Manchester Avenue (manchester.blvd), and you can immediately see your vision suddenly clear. On the right side of the road is a green planned green space, which stretches for nearly a mile within the sight. The blue sky and the emerald green on the ground are complemented by each other. On the left side of the road is an open space about 400 meters long and 300 meters wide. On both sides of the open space are either short bushes or low bungalows, with a very wide view. In the center of this open space, there is a blue building in the form of cake circles, which is the Great Western Forum Hall.

The Great Western Forum Arena in Inglewood, is the most luxurious and advanced stadium in Los Angeles. After it was put into use in 1967, it hosted NBA events for more than 20 years and also hosted basketball games for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Since its inauguration, it has been well known to residents of Angel City as the home court of the NBA Los Angeles Lakers.

This arena can accommodate 17,500 people. Every game day, the empty playground will be flooded by thousands of vehicles and surging crowds. The same is true today, and it is even more exaggerated.

Private cars were neatly spread out in sight like beetles, densely packed and countless, while the crowd continued to swarm towards the Great Western Forum Arena like a wave. The stadium could only accommodate less than 20,000 spectators, but there were at least 30,000 people in sight at this time, which was so surging that patients with intensive phobia would definitely suffocate immediately.

Not only is the playground where the Great Western Forum Arena is located occupied by the crowd, but also the free green space across the road is also occupied. People are like coming to the green space with dining cloth, sandwiches and beer, and then sit down in an orderly manner, embellishing the green in front of them into a colorful and colorful canvas, just like a painter pouring all the colors of the world onto this canvas.

The surging crowd ignited the summer that had just arrived in Los Angeles before they had time to warm up. It was like igniting a spark on the vast west coast, and then spreading with a prairie fire, driving away the spring that was still lazy and unwilling to leave in an instant. In the blink of an eye, the city of Angels in May came to the city of Angels in the blink of an eye. The heat and surging people would make people feel that they could melt at any time.

This is the real fanaticism.

Looking at those faces that were either excited, expectant or excited, just a smile is enough to rub the flames with the air; looking at those figures that are either excited, nervous or worried, just one action is enough to drive the fluctuations of the air to set off a hurricane.

Thirty thousand people? This is just a rough estimate in Hugo's sight. Even if others told him that there are 50,000 people here now, he would believe without hesitation. No wonder patrol police have already begun to maintain traffic order three streets away. Such a grand occasion cannot be driven by any concert or award ceremony, and even made Hugo feel illusion that the World Cup had already opened a month in advance.

"That's nothing," Joseph said with a smile as he looked at Hugo's stunned expression. "You should go to the Super Bowl to see it. That kind of heat wave, even if you just stand outside the field, you will feel like you are standing in a crater."

"Have you been?" Hugo turned his gaze from the window to Joseph sitting in the passenger seat. Today, because he was traveling in a low-key manner, they did not drive out the van, but drove Joseph's Volkswagen Golf that he had left at home. However, the driver was still Samora.

The smile on Joseph's face couldn't help but rise, "In 1974, at the Rice Stadium." At that time, Joseph was only ten years old, and his childhood memories surged up in an instant. At that time, Paul and Mary were not born yet, and his father took him and his brother Peter to watch the game.

That year, the Miami Dolphins defeated the Minnesota Vikings and successfully defended the Super Bowl and became the second team to defend the Super Bowl after the Green Bay Packers. He witnessed the birth of a miracle at that scene. Twenty years have passed, and that memory has begun to fade, but it still shines with infinite light, but he and Peter are getting further and further away.

When Hugo saw the smile on Joseph's face from blooming to dullness and then to loss, he suddenly remembered that in 1974, neither Joseph's younger brother nor sister was born, that is, Joseph remembered his brother. Last month, Joseph's brother Peter, who kept causing trouble, made trouble again: this time he directly joined the army.

Last year, the war between the United States and Somalia ended in a crushing defeat. The famous "Black Hawk Down" incident became the focus of major American newspapers at that time. The civil war in Somalia became increasingly surging, but the United States was forced to withdraw its troops. The sequelae of this war has not yet been completely calmed down, and the Rwandan genocide was ushered in the Rwandan genocide last month.

Just as the concerns pointed out by Siegmont Bowman's analysis after the release of "Schindler's List", the Holocaust broke out again. This time the genocide broke out on April 6 and has continued to the present and has not stopped. The negative actions of the United Nations in this incident further boosted the arrogance of the massacre. US President William Clinton failed to fall shortly before and said that he did not want to intervene in the Rwandan civil war, so the situation is getting worse and worse now.

Against this background, Peter Gibbs joined the army.

When Joseph found out, Peter had already entered the army and reported that he was as if his soul had been removed, and he was stunned. He had been standing there for five minutes, without saying or moving, and stood there quietly.

Although Peter kept causing trouble, even experienced the danger of life and death, and also implicated his family because of his huge debts; but... he was a family member after all. Peter was not only a family member, but also the elder brother Joseph admired since childhood. Now, Joseph is witnessing his idol collapsed bit by bit, and Joseph's inner struggle and pain are surging than anyone else.

Hugo looked at Joseph, and a trace of bitterness slipped through his eyes. Family members, this is a problem that will never be solved.

Leonardo DiCaprio, who sat side by side in the back seat with Hugo, could not see Joseph's expression, but he saw a hint of obscurity in Hugo's expression. He couldn't help but worry. Although he didn't know what was going on, he knew very well that Hugo's personality has always been positive, optimistic and clear, and such a sad look that was depressed between his eyebrows was really not suitable for Hugo.

"What's so good about football? I still think basketball is good. If it weren't for the Los Angeles Lakers, I wouldn't have come." Leonardo broke the silence that had just been the last two seconds, deliberately raised his voice, and said whistle.

Sure enough, as soon as this sentence came out, Joseph and Hugo came to their senses. Joseph was the first to shout, "What do you know! Rugby is a man's sport!"

Hugo actually has a deep affection for basketball, but I don’t know if it is because of the reason why he has completely integrated with Lancaster’s soul, or because he has now fully integrated into American life, his love for football has surpassed basketball. “Leo, football is a sport full of wisdom and physical strength. It is even more complex and intense than football. You should really learn how to appreciate football.”

Leonardo did not refute, but said with dissatisfaction, "Tsk, I don't think so! Legends like Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry.west, Kareem.abdul-jabbar are not something that any team can show up."

Steven Spielberg received four tickets for Hugo. Originally, Hugo invited members of the Glory Tomorrow Band to attend, but they were not Americans and had no special ideas about football, so Hugo invited Leonardo. Unexpectedly, Leonardo came, but his enthusiasm for football was obviously not as good as basketball.

"I can't count the superstars in NFL history. I can count the glory of the Houston Miners for two hours!" Joseph looked like a typical "Los Angeles immigrant". He always supported his hometown team, not all the teams in Los Angeles at present.

But Hugo looked up and down at Leonardo. He obviously had to know much about this kid. He frowned and thought, "Leo, to be honest, do you like the Los Angeles Lakers because of Jack Nicholson? You like the team he likes because of your admiration for Jack." Otherwise, based on Leonardo's age and family background, his enthusiasm for basketball should not be so obvious.
Chapter completed!