Please, please, please try to read the original post before responding. "Please understand this is not about the superiority of one sport over another."
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.