Being a soccer fan does make you smarter

This morning, EPLTalk writes about "How American Soccer Fans Are Smarter Than Average Americans."

I don't know how soccer fans stack up compared to "average Americans," but I do think that following soccer can make you smarter. It's not that you have to be smart in order to follow soccer, it's that through the act(s) of being a soccer fan, you learn a lot especially as it relates to geography and foreign culture.