This past weekend, when we all celebrated the birth of our great nation, I wanted to patriotically watch sports and cheer for the USA.
I watched Andy Roddick do America proud by giving Roger Federer a real fight at the finals of Wimbledon. I wanted to watch the US National Soccer team compete in the Gold Cup.
So there I sit, in front of my parent’s huge 1,000 inch HD TV, looking for the game.
I search all of the ESPN channels.
ESPN – nope, they are airing the 2009 World Hot Dog Eating Championship. (Really?!)
ESPN2 – nope, NFL Live. (In the off-season?!)
ESPN Classic – nope, they are airing a marathon of the 2008, 2007, and 2006 World Hot Dog Eating Championships. (words fail me . . . )I finally found the game on Telefutura, a Spanish channel, even though the game was being played in Seattle. And Direct TV had the schedule wrong, so they only aired the second half. Apparently, no English speaking American cares about soccer.
We won 4-0, by the way.
Isn't there an old WWII movie where the US soldiers weed out german spies by asking them questions about baseball, like who played second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers? Although I am pretty sure the Dodgers are now in LA, I could not name a single player on the team. I couldn't even tell you who played in the world series last year. But I could name most of the players for the US national soccer team.
Can I be patriotic, a soccer fan, and disgusted that there is a televised World Hot Dog Eating Championship, all at the same time?
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