I know the white, middle-class male does not care about soccer. You probably rate your sports something like this:
1a. Football (either Pro or College)
1b. Football (the other one)
2. Basketball
3. Baseball
4. Hockey
5. Golf
6. Nascar
7. MMA
8. Women's Sand Volleyball
9. Olympic Games
10. Soccer of any kind.
However, I do know that there are a couple common factors that cause most of you to rank sports in this way. Lots of scoring (or threats to score) and the athletic, black man. Thusly, I find it appropriate to comment on yesterday's 8-0, American drubbing of Barbados.
I was a little nervous right up until kickoff. Looking at 11 athletic, black men on the other side of the field is a little intimidating. Clint Dempsey took care of those worries, though, by scoring the fastest goal in World Cup Qualifier history (53 seconds). It's incredible that a country about the size of Corpus Christi, TX can field a soccer team to line up across from us. We're not, historically, a soccer powerhouse or anything, but we did enter the last World Cup ranked in the top 10.
Poor Barbados. By the end of this fiasco their defense seemed to have totally given up. Scoring goals on themselves, standing around yelling at each other while Landon Donovan takes a free kick right into an open net and even letting Brian Ching get in on the action. Trust me, nobody named Ching has ever been a soccer god. This game was the biggest blowout in the US men's national team history. At one point the announcers said that Barbados "would be happy" to leave the game with a mere 3-0 loss. I originally scoffed at this notion, but if you'd told them the 3-0 loss was taking the place of an 8-0 humiliation, I bet they'd have signed whatever papers you shoved in front of them.
Watch the highlights here. Let's face it, that's all any of you care about anyway.
1a. Football (either Pro or College)
1b. Football (the other one)
2. Basketball
3. Baseball
4. Hockey
5. Golf
6. Nascar
7. MMA
8. Women's Sand Volleyball
9. Olympic Games
10. Soccer of any kind.
However, I do know that there are a couple common factors that cause most of you to rank sports in this way. Lots of scoring (or threats to score) and the athletic, black man. Thusly, I find it appropriate to comment on yesterday's 8-0, American drubbing of Barbados.
I was a little nervous right up until kickoff. Looking at 11 athletic, black men on the other side of the field is a little intimidating. Clint Dempsey took care of those worries, though, by scoring the fastest goal in World Cup Qualifier history (53 seconds). It's incredible that a country about the size of Corpus Christi, TX can field a soccer team to line up across from us. We're not, historically, a soccer powerhouse or anything, but we did enter the last World Cup ranked in the top 10.
Poor Barbados. By the end of this fiasco their defense seemed to have totally given up. Scoring goals on themselves, standing around yelling at each other while Landon Donovan takes a free kick right into an open net and even letting Brian Ching get in on the action. Trust me, nobody named Ching has ever been a soccer god. This game was the biggest blowout in the US men's national team history. At one point the announcers said that Barbados "would be happy" to leave the game with a mere 3-0 loss. I originally scoffed at this notion, but if you'd told them the 3-0 loss was taking the place of an 8-0 humiliation, I bet they'd have signed whatever papers you shoved in front of them.
Watch the highlights here. Let's face it, that's all any of you care about anyway.
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