Dick Payne

You can hear the Vuvuzelas around me right now.

Yeah, they're going to be emptying out of Lumen Field here in just a minute.

And 2-0 win.

Excellent.

I was at the bar.

Jimmy's watching there.

And I'll be doing the show, yeah, in about 20 minutes or so.

So really good scenes here in Seattle.

Just a picture-perfect day.

I mean, Seattle was out in its full glory today, no question about it.

Yeah, we really didn't know what to expect.

I mean, we've never had it here before, and so tickets were a little flat for a while, and then as we got closer, they started spiking, and then I think what kind of got me was on Monday in that first game, and just the Egyptian crowd just showed up in all red all throughout the city, and it was just like, okay, this is...

This is a really, really big deal.

I mean, you knew the World Cup's a big deal, but, you know, we're so isolated from the rest of the world's soccer, and we don't really know how big it is, but it was big today, man.

I was down on the waterfront.

I did the big march to the match with thousands of people, and it was just very, very cool scenes.

And, yeah, it's one of the biggest events that Seattle has ever hosted.

There's no question about that.

Yeah, I think a little of both.

I think the injuries really have hit this team hard.