The shortest answers are 1)Our best male athletes traditionally get shunted off to other sports and 2)The rest of the world isn’t that big on women’s soccer, so we’re already far ahead of most countries just by caring.

He followed it up with “but yet and still” literally a thousand times.

That's pretty much how he always sounds on his radio show. Are you sure he wasn't just talking about the Women's World Cup win?

“when Holiday banged in a deflection from eight yards to give the Americans the 3-0 lead”

At some point in those opening 16 minutes, the feeling stopped being “Hey, the U.S. has this!” and started being “holy shit we’re watching something historic here.” And of course, the pace slowed down as it always does, and we didn’t win by 20. But the U.S. women provided a few minutes of feeling that are more…

The 60 yarder gave me the chills. Sometimes you see something and don’t even realize on the surface how nuts it is, but subconsciously you just know.

What does a fella have to do to get some American flag cape-wearing eagle-man gifs?

Thank you for your concern *rolls eyes*.

I think this is the only time I’ve been able to watch Japanese women get abused and humiliated without having to clear my internet history.

And I was in a beer line for all 4 of them. #fml

If I knew how to update Wikipedia, I’d change Carli Lloyd’s profile to the Secretary of Offense.

If it stays like this, Hope Solo can start drinking and beating the shit out of family members by halftime!

Who was the deadspin writer who said France/Germany was essentially the final and France was the best in the world? Please step forward and be laughed at, sir.

Good God, Lloyd is on God mode right now. Just scored from the halfway line

They’re the first ones that actually started industrially producing sadness back in the late 1800’s.

The Cleveland of sports nations. National export is Sadness.