Here you go again with your overly broad nonsense. Please provide examples where Americans celebrate "every little victory to the fullest." You have one example. If I were to be bothered I could go find videos of European athletes being stupid after a victory. But I can't be bothered.
Brazil was paralyzed.
Hummels said in an interview to a German news magazine after the game:
Lol. So Danes are just stoic when they score a goal in a sport? And the NFL got rid of excessive celebrations. Get with the times. You're living in 2012
This is so full of shit I'm amazed you actually believe what you're typing. European club rivalries are even worse than Democrats-Republican animosity. They actually produced special DVDs commemorating the humiliation of their fiercest rivals. But no Europeans are more honorable (allegedly) hahaha
Nope, the correct Danish way is to stand stoically like a statute and if the crowd is cheering your achievement, wave your arms (serenely and respectfully) at them to induce them to be silent. There can be no celebrating if one team is better than the other.
I'm not riled. I'm chilling eating some amazing BBQ and laughing at some guy on the internet who thinks celebrating achievements is cultural.
As someone relatively neutral (Dundee United fan), I'm almost always in awe of Scott Brown during an Old Firm match. Greatest shitehouser in the sport.
Tons of international sports we're not very good at though. Men's soccer in the US, for example, ranges from average to poor compared to most of the major competitors. In the Olympics we tend to do very well, but it's very sport dependent. In the Winter Olympics we certainly do fairly poorly for a country with as many people/resources as we have. I think that Americans are used to losing on an international scale and non-American sports fans should have plenty of chances to see that.
Yeah, men's soccer is the one place where we don't dominate, where we're actually almost an underdog. Outside of that, though, Americans have led the medal table in terms of medals won at the summer olympics each time they've been held since the breakup of the Soviet Union, and led the games in Golds won in each of those olympics save for 2008, during which we were second to China. We haven't placed out of the top five in the medal table for the winter games since 1988. For the most part, in international competition on the highest scale, Americans tend to dominate and statistics back that up. Though, I recognize for Men's soccer, rugby, and cricket we're rarely a threat.
It has nothing to do with sports. People just don't like Americans in general and will use any excuse to shit on us.
I mean we have the third highest number of people and the most wealth, so finishing in the top 5 for Winter Games isn't something that is really a triumph for the US. Also in Summer Olympics we do quite well, but it depends how you gauge success whether we "won' some of them. In 2008 China won 12 more gold medals than the US, while the US won 12 total medals more than China. Most would consider that a Chinese victory as most (rightfully) put a higher value of Gold than Silver and Bronze. The sports we don't care about like Rugby, Ice Hockey, Cricket, etc... still compete (and lose). We tend to care more about what we win which is why the summer olympics are so much more popular in the US than the winter olypmpics, which skews our view of how we do across sports in general. Don't get me wrong, I think the US does quite well overall in international sports, but we're not this utterly dominant power that never loses and makes all other countries/teams seem like underdogs.
Once again, it needs pointing out that ResetEra is not "everyone" and, in fact, make up a small, tiny niche portion of the left.
Carles Puyol would like a word with you.
I dislike Barca with a fury of a supernova star, but Puyol I have a great deal of respect for.
Carles Puyol would like a word with you.
I dislike Barca with a fury of a supernova star, but Puyol I have a great deal of respect for.
Tut, Tut, tut. Women behaving badly: the thread.
Nah, these women worked their whole lives to get to the world cup let alone score a goal in the tournament.
Thailand's team has a fantastic story, but that's why they deserve to be treated like every other team. If they had pulled back at all it would have been disrespectful to the work Thailand put in to get to the tournament. I'm sure it stung, but they know they weren't pitied or treated like they weren't worthy of a complete performance.
Why shouldn't they be allowed to be happy? The reason they celebrated like that because they knew the other women could take it. The reason you don't do that in the men soccer because they would break down and cry a lot (as evidenced by this thread).
