I wonder if there’s a correlation
between how a fan felt about the 1992 U.S. Olympic “Dream Team” in basketball
and ballplayers celebrating homeruns. I
didn’t particularly like the Dream Team, and I certainly don’t like the celebrating.
As for the Olympics, start off with
the fact that it was never a fair fight, Michael Jordan and friends against
mere mortals. The Olympic ideal at one
point was rooted in an athlete’s amateur status, Soviet Union and satellites
excepted. That’s what made beating the Russians
in hockey in 1960 and 1980 so much fun, our amateurs upset their de facto
professionals. To me, the Dream Team was
a bunch of Americans acting like Soviets on the world stage. As for bat flips and whatnot, well, this is
an old dog unwilling to go with that new trick.
All of which leads to the U.S.
women’s team in the World Cup. To me,
they’re acting too much like the Dream Team.
Celebrating every goal in a 13-0 blowout of Thailand? Really?
I get wanting to be seen as an equal to male athletes. I didn’t know that meant acting like male
athletes at their worst.
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