i'm all american!!!...but come on...really

listen, everytime i hear the star spangled banner, i feel like i could open fist knock out Ivan Drago in one punch. If it's a big game, i get goose bumps and get pumped. I love the super bowl, cheeseburgers, TV sitcoms, 4th of July, and tailgating. I always cheer hard for the US in the olympics and every international competition...even if it's a freakin spelling bee. Any defeat may enrage nationalism in me. I have little sympathy for these illegal alien protests, enjoy seeing Mexicans piled up in a Uhaul, and cheered at President Bush's ideas for closing the borders. I like american movies, with american heroes (though i admit, I have a soft spot for James Bond). When watching movies about US war victories, i'm tempted to throw confetti during the bomb explosions. I love football, basketball, and baseball -- all american made sports. But with this american attitude, we have really blown it with a few things lately. One friend put it like this, If we didn't invent it...we don't care (thank you Luke). How true that is of American interest in the Stanley Cup Finals, and the World Cup. Now, for me, i don't even like watching hockey on TV. I like the World Cup, but don't live for it like the rest of the world. But our interst is pathetic!!! Did you know the Stanley Cup was beat out in the ratings one night by the WB's "Pepper Dennis"? Hockey ain't great, but people in our country would rather watch some sitcom about a dinner condiment than men beat the crap out of eachohter on ice. Also, this world cup interest is embarassing. Props to ESPN for their coverage, but you have to pay for that. Other countries are rioting in the streets, bringing out the national pride i spoke of earlier over these soccer matches. Yet, because we didn't invent it and are not any good, we choose not to care. I think Melvin Udahl (Jack Nicholson's character in 'As good as it Gets') properlly sums up the american attitude on the world cup:


"What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good."


...i love that..american heart in a nutshell...