A lot of people (including prominent journalists!) criticized USA's approach, which basically went "recruit the best immigrants to beat everyone else at their own game", but I can think of literally nothing more American than this.
nothing brings out my american chauvinism more than shit like this. your star players are household names. ours have day jobs and most of our country is only vaguely aware the sport exists. we still won.
Another cowardly "wrong address" killing by a race soldier. This one happened in Florida, where a US Airman Roger Fortson was executed within seconds of opening his door.