World Cup sickos are planning to call out sick to watch the World Cup

David Jensen; Elizabeth Ruiz Ruiz/Getty Image; Alyssa Powell/BI The other week, a friend who shall remain nameless for soon-to-be-obvious reasons texted me a proposal: "Should we plan some potential World Cup sick days?" The message came accompanied by a screenshot of a match that may be play-hooky-from-work-worthy. We decided against it because the tickets in question were over $1,000 each. If prices drop as the event gets closer — and man oh man are a lot of people hoping they will — we wi...