There should be more headlines like this....
1 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Monday, September 13 at Monday, September 13, 2004.
From BBC News: Cricket: Australia beat US
Excellent. Finally the US are competing in an internationally competitive team sport. It doesn't help that Australia are the dominant world superpower in said sport, either.
I suppose the US are, you know, moderately competitive at Soccer. More so than Australia at least. This doesnt matter, because we all know, Soccer Sucks.
I don't know why the US do not tend to compete at a very high level at internationally competitive team sports. Probably because most of the international team sports are legacy of the British empire (Soccer, Cricket, Rugby), and the most popular US sports internally are US invented ones (American Football, Basketball, Baseball, Ice Hockey) - OK maybe Ice Hockey is Canadian. Please don't hurt me, Canadians.
Anyhow, I suggest the US take up cricket, so Australia can deliver a crushing whipping every few months. Or do something more arrogant and humiliating like sending our womens team to kick their asses, or our national Under 16 squad, or maybe a group of retarded amputees who don't exactly excel at cricket, but really like to play with all the shiny equipment and wear the white clothes.
Excellent. Finally the US are competing in an internationally competitive team sport. It doesn't help that Australia are the dominant world superpower in said sport, either.
I suppose the US are, you know, moderately competitive at Soccer. More so than Australia at least. This doesnt matter, because we all know, Soccer Sucks.
I don't know why the US do not tend to compete at a very high level at internationally competitive team sports. Probably because most of the international team sports are legacy of the British empire (Soccer, Cricket, Rugby), and the most popular US sports internally are US invented ones (American Football, Basketball, Baseball, Ice Hockey) - OK maybe Ice Hockey is Canadian. Please don't hurt me, Canadians.
Anyhow, I suggest the US take up cricket, so Australia can deliver a crushing whipping every few months. Or do something more arrogant and humiliating like sending our womens team to kick their asses, or our national Under 16 squad, or maybe a group of retarded amputees who don't exactly excel at cricket, but really like to play with all the shiny equipment and wear the white clothes.
Simon Says:
Ha ha, reminds me of something a friend told me, he was on Irish Basketball squad, when a US High School (yes, minors, couldn't even drink *here*), not a major one, just some random school, came over to play our NATIONAL SQUAD. We didn't just lose, I his words, "they dicked all over us". Nuff said.