World Cup
Footie in America
It is odd to stand tall as an American during the World Cup, when in other contexts I am not particularly proud of my Passport.
The World Cup is inherently a nationalistic endeavor. For a country that has been bad at the sport in question for most of the sport’s existence, and has most of the world somewhere between casually disgusted to fully at war against it, I am fully aware of the dry irony and awkwardness of a pub full of Americans chanting U-S-A, during a football match until we’re hoarse.
World Cup Points
Scenarios for the US team’s success or failure aren’t hard to find, but mine are funny. The final matches in our group are England v Slovenia and the USA v Algeria. The long and the short of it is: the US will advance if we do as well (or better) than England in the final games.
Edit: Thanks to Nevets in the comments for going through ALL the tie breaks and catching some math mistakes.
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K'Naan, World Cup Songs & youtube hysteria
I’ve recently been enamored with a Somalian/Canadian rapper named K’Naan. He has a lot of soul, and his Saul Williams-esque digressions into abstract spoken word don’t annoy me as much as I thought they would.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that a modified version of his already awesome song Wavin’ Flag is the Official FIFA World Cup 2010 Song.
Wait a minute, that’s not the suprising thing. There are official world cup songs? Oh yes my friends, there are, and they are tragically fantastic!
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