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The military base was used for a special edition of Fox NFL Sunday on Veterans Day weekend, I don't think it'll be used during the World Cup.

I'm always impressed by the money being spent by US broadcasters like Fox or ESPN on purpose-built sets for football events like the World Cup and the Euro when it doesn't seem like these events are that important for the average american sports fan.

That was certainly the case before America hosted the World Cup for the first time in 1994.  Since then, they've taken to the World Cup and Soccer in general a lot more than they had before it.  It's now the 5th most popular sport ahead of Tennis, Golf and Motorsport, but still behind the big 4 of American Football, Baseball, Basketball & Ice Hockey.  Although, I would say that Soccer is competing with Ice Hockey for that 4th place spot, it hasn't quite overtaken it yet.  However, the NHL don't seem to be helping themselves in terms of keeping interest in the game, and MLS certainly seem to putting in more effort generally to increase their fanbase, so who knows how long it will be before Soccer is officially number 4 on the list.