Reminds me of that metal/country dichotomy.

Hear, hear!

I go to Texas Tech, and I can tell you now: unless Lubbock had a Black Gold Rush, no way they could accomodate all those spectators for the Worl—

Brazilian culture thinks your American culture is weird with their athletes discouraged from showing emotion and having their last names on their jersey.

Eh...

Mediocre work overall. It's typical USMNT: defend by all means, win on lucky goal, have entire wing of American-based casual non-USA soccer fans mock us for not being an attractive side.

Sort of on topic: I can see a pattern where basketball fans really get into soccer (both sports lean heavily ethnic, have major foreign influences, individual greatness and creativity, speak your mind etc.), but why are so many hockey fans also big baseball fans?

That take left my eyes a tad burnt, and I only read these quotes.

"Heat" = LeBron

Also, Brazilians inspired Japanese football to the point that the 1994 and 1998 World Cups had one player from the J-League on the Brazil national team.

I guess it's to inject passion into the broadcast. Of course Ley and Tirico are pulling for America, but our journalistic style frowns upon any semblance of bias.

I highly suggest not watching any African or Latin teams, either, good sir.

Speaking for all of us: local announcers for whenever the USA scores should be from both ESPN and Univision. Thank you.

ESPN fellates all of its NFL analysts to the max. Even Herbie doesn't get the burn TEDY BRUSCHI or HERM EDWARDS gets, and people like Herbie.

Whitlock is a schmuck, but I get the idea. Think "Support System" and not "Oh, He's Cutting A Separate Area For Black People". BET, NABJ, Black Enterprise etc. do the same thing.

Texas' GOP is the best GOP in the nation.

Badaboom. People forget: even with all that YOUTH and HIP HOP EXUBERANCE, the NBA fanbase is still miles behind baseball's. Old guys with cash love their baseball, man. Plus, you don't need Yasiel Puig to sell them on how great they think baseball is. Even Peyton Manning is expendable.

Well, the comment section perfectly illustrates American soccer's problem: a melting pot of pie-in-the-sky USMNT fans, anti-soccer trolls, and non-USMNT soccer fans giggling at American soccer. Let's not forget non-soccer fans who ignore American soccer because it ain't England and the national team isn't all playing…

Gilmour's fake was sweet, but what did that in for me (it was just-before-my-time) was the camera shaking and almost missing the reaction. Priceless stuff.

Someone beat me to it: Chris Cuthbert called most CBC Eastern finals in the 1990s. That's his voice on the CBC feed — not Bob Cole.