RAH! RAH! RAH! AMERIKKKAN SOCCER TEAM! SAY THE CROWS:

p img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u26/FUTBOL.jpg" style="width: 273px; height: 184px;" //p p nbsp;/p p WHAM!nbsp; BAM!nbsp; CLANG! span data-scayt_word="RRRRRRMMMMMMMMM" data-scaytid="5"RRRRRRMMMMMMMMM/span..../p p Ah! Ah! Ah! Mexico won!nbsp; Mexico won!/p p The crows woke me up again.nbsp; This time they were driving the garbage truck that empties the dumpsters of the non-profit feeding program (across the street) right outside my span data-scayt_word="window...at" data-scaytid="1"window...at/span span data-scayt_word="6a.m" data-scaytid="2"6a.m/span./p p What, did Mexico win?nbsp; I asked./p p Ah! Ah! they shrieked, a soccer game in the Rose Bowl stadium!/p p Who were they playing?/p p Ah!nbsp; You didn#39;t know?nbsp; America!/p p Really?? I said, I only pay attention to that sport every four years./p p Ah! Ah! Ah!nbsp; span data-scayt_word="KNBR" data-scaytid="6"KNBR/span sports-talk radio station talked about it.nbsp; One of their ESPN radio people said people are upset!/p p Why?/p p The Rose Bowl was full of Mexicans!/p p Ah! Ah! Ah! another crow yelled, the Mexicans in the stands were rude, they called the American team the Spanish word for Jack-Ass!/p p Maybe they just wanted them to know they like the span data-scayt_word="tv" data-scaytid="9"tv/span show?/p p Ah! Ah! People are upset!/p p People are always upset, I said, usually about the wrong thing.nbsp; One of the desk clerks at this SRO hotel said people were angry the span data-scayt_word="U.S" data-scaytid="3"U.S/span. Open Golf Tournament left out #39;One nation under God#39; in the Pledge of span data-scayt_word="Alliegiance" data-scaytid="11"Alliegiance/span.nbsp; No sports writer covering the golfers said anything about it.nbsp; span data-scayt_word="KNBR" data-scaytid="7"KNBR/span didn#39;t either.nbsp; I DID hear some crazy talk about people should always support the national team of the country they live span data-scayt_word="in...but" data-scaytid="4"in...but/span, they, nobody raised me to be like those crazy Oakland Raiders fans!/p p Ah! Ah! Ah! Now you span data-scayt_word="talkin" data-scaytid="12"talkin/span#39; smack!/p p Maybe, I said, but I don#39;t care where an athlete or team comes from, mostly, I just love to watch people who are good at what they do.nbsp; I mean, people want Tiger Woods to be great again.nbsp; The span data-scayt_word="tv" data-scaytid="10"tv/span people want ratings.nbsp; The talking heads say people need or want heroes.nbsp; They want Rory span data-scayt_word="McIlroy" data-scaytid="13"McIlroy/span to be the next Tiger.nbsp; Not span data-scayt_word="gonna" data-scaytid="15"gonna/span happen!/p p Ah! Ah! Why not?/p p Who needs that kind of pressure?nbsp; I said, not me!nbsp; Hey, 11 different winners in 11 straight major pro golf tournaments!nbsp; span data-scayt_word="McIlroy" data-scaytid="14"McIlroy/span has no plans to play a lot in America, so he#39;s not span data-scayt_word="gonna" data-scaytid="16"gonna/span be a hero to anybody but the hard-core golf lover who follows the sport span data-scayt_word="whereever" data-scaytid="17"whereever/span it#39;s played./p p Ah! Ah! You#39;ve got a point!/p p Only person I agreed with you called in to span data-scayt_word="KNBR" data-scaytid="8"KNBR/span, I said, was the one who said the Mexico fans forgot about good sportsmanship./p p Ah! Ah! span data-scayt_word="Talkin" data-scaytid="19"Talkin/span#39; smack again!/p p People do that all the time though! I said, screaming abuse at baseball players.nbsp; I did it to opposing soccer players at the games my hometown college team played--when I actually paid attention to amateur soccer--the opposing goalie got really mad once./p p Ah! Ah!nbsp; You too?nbsp; The crows sounded disappointed./p p I was young./p p Ah! Ah! Ah! We span data-scayt_word="gotta" data-scaytid="20"gotta/span go!/p p That garbage truck was really loud.nbsp; POOR Magazine makes noise too, in two languages (we#39;d love to do it in more).nbsp; The span data-scayt_word="post-futbol" data-scaytid="21"post-futbol/span game ceremony for the winning team at the Rose Bowl stadium also upset the same people pissed off about the other stuff, and, apparently, the American team too.nbsp; It was held in Spanish only.nbsp; An American team member was quoted as saying that if they#39;d won in Mexico City the ceremony wouldn#39;t have been English-only./p p This is a hard thing, so many in span data-scayt_word="Amerikkka" data-scaytid="22"Amerikkka/span want English to be the only legal language, and they complain and complain and complain that people from other countries don#39;t try hard enough to speak English; they (try to) make school really hard for children who don#39;t speak English the moment they arrive.nbsp; POOR Magazine#39;s newsroom and other meetings are held in English AND Spanish for a reason--that#39;s who we are, we don#39;t leave anyone out of the conversation, we don#39;t believe in English Language Domination over span data-scayt_word="whereever" data-scaytid="18"whereever/span anyone else came from in this diverse, troubled world we live in.nbsp; We are often convinced we are the ONLY people who care about this issue, though we know that isn#39;t (entirely) true./p p The crows?nbsp; I span data-scayt_word="dunno" data-scaytid="23"dunno/span.nbsp; They wake me up and we have these conversations--and then they fly off and see other stuff and, I know, think about waking me up for more early morning smack-talk.../p p nbsp;/p p nbsp;/p