Because many people have been asking us about it: Our favorite states from the trip were Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas. Our favorite town was Fairhope, Alabama, and our favorite food spot was Taco Bell.
America turns 250 today.
Let me read back the resume.
We started by telling a king to pound sand, in writing.
By 1803 we bought half a continent from France for about four cents an acre.
We fought a war with ourselves and somehow stayed one country.
We strung a railroad across the entire thing.
We handed the world the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane in about thirty years flat.
Then a man named Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and made half the planet actually livable.
You are welcome, Texas. You are welcome, Dubai.
Twice the whole world caught fire, and twice we showed up and helped put it out.
We split the atom.
We put men on the moon in 1969.
Then we went back and hit golf balls up there, because why not.
We invented jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, and the whole planet is still dancing to it.
We put a burger and fries on every corner of the earth.
We built rockets that fly themselves home and land standing straight up.
We flew a helicopter on Mars.
We launched a car into actual space and it is still out there cruising.
We also invented ranch dressing and somehow talked the entire world into putting it on pizza.
Priorities.
We even invented three of our own sports so we could win them.
Baseball, basketball, and football.
Real football, the kind with hands, because we named it and we are not taking corrections.
The rest of the planet can keep soccer, which is fine, we are hosting it in our backyard this summer anyway.
And yes, Canadian football exists, wider field, extra man, one fewer down, and we try very hard not to think about it.
Frankly it was generous of us to invent our own games.
If we put all that energy into soccer, nobody else would ever lift that trophy again.
We would win it so often they would just rename it the America’s Cup and hand us the keys.
You are welcome for the suspense.
And in 2026 we threw a birthday so big a German tourist live-tweeted our gas stations to 750,000 people.
Not every chapter was clean.
We argued, we stumbled, we fixed what we broke, and we kept building.
That is the whole trick.
Two hundred and fifty years in, and we are still the loudest, brightest, most improbable experiment on the map.
Not bad for a country that started as a strongly worded letter to a king.
Happy birthday, America.
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The American flag existed long before Donald Trump, and it’ll still be here long after him.
If your patriotism rises and falls based on who’s in the White House, maybe your allegiance is to politics—not the country.
The flag represents the nation and its people, not whichever administration happens to be in power.
God bless America. 🇺🇸
Morgan Wallen brings out the one and only — Coach Saban as his special guest for his concert in Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Pretty cool moment here!
I wonder if Saban is trying to recruit him to the good side.
The idea that you should only cheer for athletes who share your politics is bizarre and socially corrosive; sports should give us a temporary reprieve from partisan politics
🚨 JUST IN: Budweiser is being praised nationwide for an INCREDIBLY patriotic, pro-America Super Bowl ad
The culture is shifting.
Companies want to be known for USA AGAIN. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
“I am a Catholic. I am a Catholic man.”
— Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza on why he took his trophy to the priests at the St. Paul Center at his university
Can I say something real quick?
My hat is off to Conor Talty and I hope yours is too.
On the road with all the pressure in the world after being booed by his own “fans”the week before. He nails his FGs which ended up being the difference in the game.
Give credit where it’s due