thrill wrote:Frankly, I'm shocked at how few stories about how much sheer "Americanness" and "American Spirit" Japan showed in never giving up, fighting to the death and achieving their manifest destiny.
Seriously, kiss my ass ESPN, stop propagating nonsense stories like this whenever a US soccer team wins. I know as an American sports media outlet that can't resist the easiest story line ever, you love it when we are the perceived under dogs, but just shut up. Soccer style as metaphor for national identity is an old, worn out cliche and you can't call it manifest destiny when they win and ignore it when they lose.
Also, screw Julie Foudy, Hope Solo and whoever else wants to perpetuate that myth when it's convenient. Stop running your mouth and just win the game. Beating Brazil in dramatic fashion doesn't validate our national superiority complex. It just means you beat a good team in dramatic fashion. Enjoy it for what it is. Stop shoving your whack patriotism down our throats.
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As knowledgeable as Foudy is about soccer, I tired of her grating partisanship very early on. She reminded me of Cathy Rigby shouting out "What a break for the Americans!" when a foreign gymnast fell during the Olympics many years ago.
thrill wrote:Frankly, I'm shocked at how few stories about how much sheer "Americanness" and "American Spirit" Japan showed in never giving up, fighting to the death and achieving their manifest destiny.
Seriously, kiss my ass ESPN, stop propagating nonsense stories like this whenever a US soccer team wins. I know as an American sports media outlet that can't resist the easiest story line ever, you love it when we are the perceived under dogs, but just shut up. Soccer style as metaphor for national identity is an old, worn out cliche and you can't call it manifest destiny when they win and ignore it when they lose.
Also, screw Julie Foudy, Hope Solo and whoever else wants to perpetuate that myth when it's convenient. Stop running your mouth and just win the game. Beating Brazil in dramatic fashion doesn't validate our national superiority complex. It just means you beat a good team in dramatic fashion. Enjoy it for what it is. Stop shoving your whack patriotism down our throats.
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As knowledgeable as Foudy is about soccer, I tired of her grating partisanship very early on. She reminded me of Cathy Rigby shouting out "What a break for the Americans!" when a foreign gymnast fell during the Olympics many years ago.
Foudy is also very bad at figuring out how much time is left in the game.
TimeForGuinness wrote:
Foudy is also very bad at figuring out how much time is left in the game.
HAHAHA
"There's 6 minutes left!"
"I mean 16."
Actually it's 12.
Seriously, all of the "former player turned announcer" for both the men and women are horrible: Foudy, Lalas, Wynalda...
Christopher Sullivan on FSC is great, I like Wynalda when he's just pouring gas all over people and lighting a match, Harkes blah but Taylor Twellmen is the truth. He needs a little more separation from being a player to being a jaded journalist but he's fantastic. And oh so handsome.
TimeForGuinness wrote:
Foudy is also very bad at figuring out how much time is left in the game.
HAHAHA
"There's 6 minutes left!"
"I mean 16."
Actually it's 12.
Seriously, all of the "former player turned announcer" for both the men and women are horrible: Foudy, Lalas, Wynalda...
Christopher Sullivan on FSC is great, I like Wynalda when he's just pouring gas all over people and lighting a match, Harkes blah but Taylor Twellmen is the truth. He needs a little more separation from being a player to being a jaded journalist but he's fantastic. And oh so handsome.
Ha...haven't seen a lot of Taylor, but I remember him being on Bernie's show a few years ago when the concussions were forcing him out of the game. He's going to be a good announcer, and with MLS on the rise, it will probably work out very well for him.
I do like when Wynalda is on a scorched earth campaign, but other than that...I just think he's a prick.
I can't place Sullivan right now, but I'll look for him when I'm watching next time.
thrill wrote:
Seriously, kiss my ass ESPN, stop propagating nonsense stories like this whenever a US soccer team wins. I know as an American sports media outlet that can't resist the easiest story line ever, you love it when we are the perceived under dogs, but just shut up. Soccer style as metaphor for national identity is an old, worn out cliche and you can't call it manifest destiny when they win and ignore it when they lose.
Also, screw Julie Foudy, Hope Solo and whoever else wants to perpetuate that myth when it's convenient. Stop running your mouth and just win the game. Beating Brazil in dramatic fashion doesn't validate our national superiority complex. It just means you beat a good team in dramatic fashion. Enjoy it for what it is. Stop shoving your whack patriotism down our throats.
ESPN isn't the only with one this problem. I wrote this about a Chicago sports journalist a few years back:
Dan and Terry,
Is it too early in the week to crap someone? Allow me one moment.
Rick Telander usually grasps like a blind man in a bee swarm for meaningful stuff to write in his column. But today he entered a new realm of hyperbolic fatuousness. His column makes Mad Magazine read like Doonsbury.
Telandar, who voted for Snickers-Superman Ken Caminitti for entry into the MLB Hall of Fame while voting against Andre Dawson, apparently latches on to the "transcendent hero" theme like G-Rod turns to jogging suits and poetry in times of need.
It's not Telandar's characterization of Obama's ability to inspire that makes me gag, it's the crass stereotyping of the pre-Millennial black athlete that makes me think he has been inhaling exhaust fumes underneath the Hubbard Street cave since Labor Day.
Rick Telandar, if there is ever a shortage of sports hyberbole in these challenging times, I assure you that your number will be the first number dialed.
Deciding a soccer match with penalty kicks is like if the Super Bowl ended in a tie and they had each QB throw the ball through a tire swing hanging from a tree branch to decide the game.
Japan almost melted down there..................too soon?
themiddle54 wrote:Deciding a soccer match with penalty kicks is like if the Super Bowl ended in a tie and they had each QB throw the ball through a tire swing hanging from a tree branch to decide the game.
Japan almost melted down there..................too soon?
Tasteless jokes are always best served fresh. I approve.
