Wayne Rooney has signed with D.C. United, and even with a World Cup going on it feels like a big story beyond our little corner of the soccer universe. When a story gets this big, even the minor details get plenty of attention. I mean, yesterday over 3,000 people watched Ryan Keefer’s streaming video of Rooney’s arrival at Dulles Airport, and...you’ve been to an airport before, right? It’s not actually thrilling, but that’s the world we’re in now. Rooney’s preferred stop for a cup of tea? That’s news now.
So when the granular details become big news, the stuff fans geek out over becomes colossal.