You Talkin' to Me? The U.S. team's big World Cup moment
From: Michael Harrington To: Fagan, Kate; Gonzalez, John Subject: USA! USA! USA! Donovan scores in stoppage time! The greatest moment in the history of U.S. soccer!!! Wooo . . . have to catch my breath. Talk among yourselves.
From: Michael Harrington
To: Fagan, Kate; Gonzalez, John
Subject: USA! USA! USA!
Donovan scores in stoppage time! The greatest moment in the history of U.S. soccer!!! Wooo . . . have to catch my breath. Talk among yourselves.
From: Gonzalez, John
To: Fagan, Kate; Michael Harrington
Subject: USA! USA! USA!
Amazing stuff by Donovan. Right up there with some of the great American sports moments of all time.
From: Fagan, Kate
To: Gonzalez, John; Harrington, Michael
Subject: USA! USA! USA!
Going out in a 0-0 tie would have been painful.
But isn't it Thursday? Is it really a great moment in American sports if Gonzo hasn't opined on it?
From: Gonzalez, John
To: Fagan, Kate; Michael Harrington
Subject: USA! USA! USA!
No column for Thursday, Kate. Some basketball writer turned soccer scribe is scheduled to dominate Page 2 until the World Cup is over. And I'm OK with that, because she's doing a fine job. Still, she'd better bring me back a trinket of some worth from her travels. It's the right thing to do in exchange for sharing the Page.
From: Michael Harrington
To: Fagan, Kate; Gonzalez, John
Subject: USA! USA! USA!
It has amused me greatly to read some of the online comments below this exercise, saying soccer is boring, slow, not enough scoring, nobody here cares about the World Cup, etc. (I'm not a hockey fan, I only follow it because they pay me to - but that's no basis for me saying the Stanley Cup doesn't matter or ridiculing those who think it does.) How can anyone say that soccer is not exciting after a moment like that?
I don't really know if this one win will establish soccer in the United States, but it certainly should push it even further into the American sports consciousness. No fan likes to miss a Big Moment.
Still, it will probably take actually winning the Cup to get more American fans involved, and the U.S. team is still a ways off from that. Or maybe not . . . the U.S. team did make it to the Confederations Cup final last year. The United States may have to face up to being - gulp - a soccer power, whether some American sports fans care or not.
Oh, and, Go Flyers!
From: Gonzalez, John
To: Fagan, Kate; Harrington, Michael
Subject: USA! USA! USA!
I was equally excited by Donovan's goal. You shouldn't pay attention to what the online comments section hollow-heads think or write. In a recent study, 10 out of 10 doctors agreed that your brain would be better off if you just ignored them and banged your head with a hammer.
Now where was I? And who has my hammer?