Even if you're not a soccer fan, as an American, you can't help but be somewhat touched by this. The bar in Califonia, park in Kansas City or the pause in the bustle in at a store front in New York......
Love this video. Love the "Rudy" theme. Love the fact that although I was in my car taking my son to daycare the moment it happened, unable to answer my phone as it began to blow up with calls from friends and co-workers, I knew exactly what had happened. Love the fact that my wife, who doesn't follow sports in general, said her office erupted in unison.
Love the fact that only sports, once again, can bring some of us together in a way that total strangers share in the agony and heartbreak of a close game and then become instant best friends, spattering high-fives to anyone within range and the hugging like the reunion of long lost friends reuniting.
Like most of my maybe half-dozen diaries to this site, I apologize for not adding anything to the discourse, but hell with it......
I love it when a country comes together!!!!!
