Classless Ryder Cup fans show how ugly our sports…
Beyond President Joe Biden and his fantasy-fueled seconds, they blindly diminished the very best honor the U.S. can bestow on a civilian, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by bestowing it on Megan Rapinoe, captain of the 2019 World Cup-winning U.S. staff. That staff taught America a lasting lesson about misapplied patriotism.
That Rapinoe, before an worldwide viewers, frequently fronted a squad of younger American ladies that was so relentlessly obnoxious, self-entitled and ungracious in successful, that it turned OK — a matter or ethical conviction — for Americans to root against an American staff.
That lesson, as it relates to sports, stays taught as our most fist-brandishing, chant-leading Ryder Cup staff members and their booze-fueled, gambling-emboldened on-site supporters have made “rowdy” synonymous with the event when held on U.S. turf.
Where the Ryder Cup was born and for a long time sustained by transatlantic sportsmanship, friendliness, fair-play and gentlemanly comportment, our short-sighted media-driven “sports culture” no longer permits for such a feels-good and feels-right “sports culture.”
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