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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The social justice warriors, also known as the no fun club, alway want to debate. They find a victim in every situation and attempt to exploit it until we all surrender.

Half of them are currently sitting inside their Prius crying. [/quote]

If the US needs that goal differential to get out of group stage then I guess they should celebrate them with such unbridled enthusiasm. [/quote]

That's the thing. In the first game, you have no idea. They have to get past Sweden, to whom they lost in the Olympics. And Sweden plays Thailand after the US plays them, so they have no idea how many goals up Sweden would have gone.

It's unlikely they will need that many goals. But if Sweden goes 20-0 against Thailand, you're then saying the US team sucks for dialing it back too far. Expecting teams to see the future is ridiculous. [/quote]

DP.  What’s ridiculous is you making an argument for an anonymous poster when you have no idea how they would respond in that situation.

The people on the sportsmanship side of this discussion would have been fine with a 20-0 score, done in a dignified way.   No flying out of the box with leg farts all the way.

I am a big supporter of our national teams, but it’s within our right to call out this kind of behavior when we see it.  I understand that you feel that celebrating wildly is OK.  I do not. [/quote]

So you didn't like one part of one goal celebration, but that's enough for you to tar the entire team.

I don't think it's ok to degrade the entire team saying they have poor sportsmanship when you disapproved of a couple seconds of one celebration of one goal.[/quote]

Celebrating when a game is competitive is more than fine. The game was not competitive well past 5 goals.

What exactly was Rapinoe celebrating with the 9th goal against the last seed in a group stage game as a defending champion?[/quote]

I have no idea what she was celebrating. Rapinoe's an odd duck. It's quite possible she was celebrating finally getting it somewhat together after a bit of a rocky start. Or maybe she had so much pent up energy from trying so hard it had to go somewhere. I think soccer players are somewhat strange, personally. What with the men and how a strong breeze seems to cause them great injury, and the women acting like perpetual underdogs when they're truly incredible players.

Soccer goal celebrations are strange. I've seen a bunch of compilations of them just in the past day, and Rapinoe's is among the strange ones, but it doesn't stand out as being completely out of bounds, for men or women.

If FIFA thinks it's gone too far, they have the power to change it. Just like football got rid of spiking the football. When it's built into the culture (like spiking the football, or those airplane arms after goals -- what IS that?) good luck expecting some people to just decide that's no longer ok. And I don't think it's reasonable to criticize one group of people within a culture for the entire culture. The US team did not create the culture of celebrations and is not the only team with celebrations, muted or over the top.[/quote]

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