Rachel Maddow: why the US women's national team was the Best New Thing In The World today

posted by Swish Appeal
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 2:40pm EDT

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This year, in a nation that does not care about the game of soccer; this year in a nation still trying to convince itself it doesn't care about women's sports of any kind; this year the amazing spectacle that is the US World Cup team made bleak Wednesday a great sports day after all.

After the U.S. team beat Brazil on Sunday, today we had to get through France...on the slowest day of every sports year, that's when the Best New Thing In The World happens...Abby Wambach again, who had the beautiful goal on Sunday, she does it again.

From Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, in describing why the US women's national team was the Best New Thing In The World today, which she describes as "the sleepiest sports day of the year...so vacant that ESPN puts on its made-up awards show on this day, modern life's surest sign of a vacant vapid lack of consequence."

Click here for more of Maddow's thoughts on soccer and her political analogy.

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