Why not?

Didn't see the game but a Fox News program showed how every Swedish girl proudly held a hand over her heart and all sang their national song.
Made me dino proud of being half-Swedish, though I'm a conservative American citizen who always votes.
I've always held a hand over my heart when the anthem played back when I used to attend Alabama home football games before health issues kept me away.
Before playing the Swedes, a stark minority if USA female soccer players held a hand over their hearts while our anthem played. The rest looked like bored bunch of ho's.

BB may have anticipated headlines again LOL

As I understand it, they are also planning on indicting him in D.C. for tearing the tags off of the mattresses in the White House. That one should drop the night before the debates...

I can't understand how one can be excellent when you represent a country that you hate...

Maybe the team was following the practice of "Quiet Quitting" and doing ONLY the minimum they were getting paid to do.

Watching the first game against Vietnam, it was clear. They should have won 13:0, but barely put three in the net. Just clowning around. You can't win like this.

Enjoyed your enlightened perspective. Entitled little snots cannot expect to beat down to earth skilled and determined competitors.

I am a soccer player, and like watching the women because they are better looking than the men and the US usually does pretty well. Hope Solo is a psycho, but the best women's goalie I have ever seen. Mia Hamm was just great and damn cute. Carly Lloyd, Tobin Heath, Megan Klingenbeard, et al were just great! Don't remember how Brandi played, but those abs looked awful good when they beat China.

This year, the women played like entitled, little idiots in the Group Stage. Absolute garbage. We are the US. We are great. Kiss our feet. Ads: "Megan Rapinoe the Hero"... "Scary Sophie Smith". pppbbbbttttsss. You are out the earliest of ANY US women's team ever. Rapinioe took the free kicks, and couldn't even get them to the attacking line. She aged out before this tournament.

Now, they played much better against Sweden than any group stage match, and probably would have won if Sweden's goal keeper was not simply spectacular. However, missing the frame on penalty kicks as a pro? You just suck. Who was it:
1 - Megan, the big mouth Rapinoe - missed the frame, when the game would have been ended.
2 - little Sophie Smith (probably not a bad kid, but the ads were ridiculous)

Kelley O'Hara missed the last one, but it should never have gotten there.

This year, they were little snots, and they got what was coming to them. Now Rapin-whore can fade back into irrelevancy, and a team the wants to win on their own merit (what? merit?) can start coming together.

Saw that one! Hilarious!

Thanks. That kinda takes my breath away. O-:

+1
If The Gulch has a Hall of Fame for posts, I would loke to nominate this one!!!

Yeah, according to that sidebar story, the Imperial Galactic Storm-troopers will always need a blaster range trainer like Megan to keep their shooting up to their usual status quo standards.
Reminds me of a day of annual training with the AR-15 when I worked for the Alabama Department of Corrections. One shooter scored a bull's eye.
Problem was that he hit someone else's target. Now THAT'S a guy who could NRA qualify for service with those storm-troopers in another galaxy far, far away.

best news i've heard all day...
LOL

Me dino reckons soccer will soon become a more popular sport here with our Puppet-In-Chief's handlers being so hard at work at degrading the USA into coexisting with that "third world" you mention.

I see, according to the BB, Megan landed on her feet by getting a job teaching Galactic Empire storm troopers how to shoot.

guess i am a co-defendant
as i consider soccer a 3rd world "sport"