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I agree with the principle of this post, but... by golfjunkie17

The game will start at 8:30-ish local time in Italy. There’s not a lot of culture to take in at that hour. But, some of my best times abroad have been finding a local watering hole to watch my favorite team, or a sporting event I’m interested in, play at odd hours. I’ve met some great people and had some experiences that I will never forget in bars I can’t remember the names of with people I’ll never see again.

P.S., as a younger man, I found out (and took full advantage of) that there are a good number of foreign women who secretly find loud, drunk, and obnoxious American men to be extremely desirable. Watching a sporting event in a bar only hastens to deliver the message to any local young lady that you are most certainly a loud, obnoxious American who can really bring it with a little loudmouth soup.