It could have been worse(not much) we could have been playing South Africa and had to suffer through 2 hours of nonstop vuvuzela blastThat cracker jack cowbell drove me nuts. Listening on TV, 1500 miles away in CO, I about wanted to jump through my screen to take those bells away.
No research done here - how many cows are there near Starkville? I'll give them credit for being a vet school of course, you can do that from anywhere.