While I am not a huge soccer fan, I must admit that I am excited about the World Cup. The tournament starts this morning in South Africa with the opening game being Mexico vs South Africa. The real excitement for me though comes at 1430 Saturday afternoon, when the USA team will take on England, and I get very excited at the aspect of kicking some Limey butts. Historically, the last time these two teams met was in 1950 with the US winning what is now referred to as the "Miracle on the Green" by a score of 1 to 0.
Every where else in the world soccer is known as football, and I know it will never take the place of our beloved sport here in the states, but we are still a couple of months away from the kick off of our own season, so lets embrace the World Cup and cheer on our team USA. Here in Florida we are not to fond of the English right now with the tragic debacle of Bp in the Gulf of Mexico. I always like to remember why there were two stars on the flap of my Navy cracker uniform, they represent the two wars that we kicked England's butt in to gain our independence.
Back in 1950 the English team was known as the "Kings of Football" and they were in fact considered to be the best team in the world. The Belfast Ireland Telegraph referred to the USA team as "a band of no-hopers drawn from many lands," ostensibly because some of the men were recent immigrants to the United States. What a great story for our country! With immigration also being such an issue today, could this be a unifier? What ever the out come, in this time of the year when some of us are starting to jones for our own dear form of football, let's get behind our TEAM USA and beat England!
Old Chief Sends,
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