I did:
Your team needs you. Your country needs you. The next couple weeks will not be easy and will only become harder, and the stakes higher, as time goes on. Sure, I think Landon Donavan is a priss, DaMarcus Beasley is over-rated, and Claudio Reyna is too old. It matters not. I do not expect you to start drinking at 5AM. I do not expect you to march down Main Street with the Stars & Stripes. I do not expect four Chicago cops in riot-gear come to the apartment (my personal best). But I expect you to get behind your team or get out of my way.
Tell me tha isn't a blatant attempt to use patriotism to foment interest in a sport that most people aren't interested in?
I wasn't being sarcastic. I was being serious. It must be hard to love a sport as much as you do only to be chided for it.
Just remember that somewhere (not necessarily in Germany) someone in American gear is drinking and dancing with a hot Brazilian, or Swedish, or Australian chick and you are not.
Did you think you could taunt people and not be called on it? Childish.
When one cannot bring themselves to cheer for their country in an international competition, then it is a perfectly acceptable consideration. Again, no one is saying you are unpatriotic, we are merely discussing the limits of your patriotism. And please note that my request was more along the lines of, if you cannot bring yourself to do it, then stay out of the way of others who can.