Copa oro ... FAIL

Team USA looked overmatched in pretty much every aspect of the final of the CONCAF Gold Cup last night. From the crowd, to the ceremonies to the actually performance on the pitch, Team USA lost. Here are a few comments / takeaways:

• Quote of the day from Tim Howard and I couldn't agree more: "CONCACF should be ashamed of themselves," Howard said. "I think it was a [expletive] disgrace that the entire postmatch ceremony was in Spanish. You can bet your ass that if we were in Mexico City, it wouldn't be all in English."
• There needs to be a "Copa Oro" for Basketball, Baseball and Football for our "neighbors" to the North and South.  Now that would be real entertainment.  
• Call it poor sportsmanship on my behalf (and I'm ok with that), but after the score went to 4-2, I would have put in some scrubs and told them to take out some knees. 
• Game was in the Rose Bowl, but they might as well have played it in Aztec Stadium. Seeing that there is a large portion of Mexican nationals squatting in California, why don't they play home games for Team USA in Nebraska or Iowa? 
• If your looking for some entertaining comments about the match, go on Twitter. There are some really good comments about our "neighbors to the South" and the crowd. I don't feel like repeating some of them here because I'd like to say somewhat PC. 
• Dr. Noisewater brought up a good point:  The Copa Oro or Gold Cup, is about as almost as important as the trophy from the Little League World Series. Almost ... but its not.  
• The match was so important, not a single major network, or cable network, covered the match.  Comcast / Xfinity didn't even cover the game in HD - we had to watch it in standard definition - which is just awful.

Oh well ... Team USA is still not very good but what else is new. They've never been very good and until we get some of our top athletes to play, we will never be very good.