Hell, I didn't know either

It turns out that Americans aren't the only people who aren't paying close attention to the World Cup:

Eight percent of Russians believe their national team will win the World Cup, despite the fact that it never qualified for the tournament, an independent poll has showed.

Wow. I'm actually surprised that only eight percent of Russians were bombed out of their skulls on rotgut vodka enough to delirium-tremens their team on to winning an impossible victory.

(By the way, there was no word in the article on whether or not there were similar results among Detroit Lions fans.)