Watching real football on TV live right now...

It is an exhibition game between an American team, DC United, and the Spanish super star, perhaps the richest sports team in the world, Real Madrid.

The match is taking place in America; it is a friendly game.

Every touch of the ball by the superstar team is cheered, there are ole!'s when the superstars lazily pass the ball to each other, and of course, the stadium erupts when Real Madrid scores.

Meanwhile, the home team is met with half-hearted reactions when they make some good plays.

Shots of the crowd show everyone wearing white (the Real Madrid colors) and none wearing black.

There are now "Americans" chanting 'Madrid, Madrid!' throughout the stadium.

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Of course, this is not as bad as being an American supporter of football trying to support the United States National Team playing a Latin American team, god help you if it is Mexico.

You will be the 1% of the crowd, surrounded by an ocean of green jerseys, with the obligatory bags with urine being thrown at you.


So, America - the hodgepodge of various people, of various races, nations, tribes, each of which is trying desperately to be named a minority, each of which tries to be a "professional victim", each of which takes umbrage whenever a joke about their country, ethnicity or tribe is told...

But, curiously enough, not when the joke is about how America sucks or how Americans are stupid or fat or... then no offense is taken.

Is this grand experiment called the United States of America working?

The example of any football game in America... says no.

And, lets go into personal musings here - being born in Europe - you know, the part of Central Europe which had the majority Jews throughout the Middle Ages all the way to the Germans' ethnic cleansing in '41-43 - I was raised with football, and find American curios - baseball, American football, basketball - boring and pointless and just media vehicles to put as many commercials (and breaks in the action) as possible.

Go figure.