<p>Good to know, mini. Europeans just don’t understand the game of American football then. It is a pretty complicated game.</p>
<p>You haven’t seen cricket.</p>
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<p>No joke!</p>
<p>This business of being “embarrassed” by what swirls around a particular sport in this country is an odd concept to me. How are you personally tied to this situation such that it should cause embarrassment? Did you or your son play football? Did you or your family ever get drunk or act like idiots in the stands? Do you work for a media company which profits from broadcasting football? Are your European friends similarly “embarrassed” by the shenanigans and trampling deaths that surround their football (soccer) and rugby games? What about the slugfests that happen in their parliaments? Are the Spaniards embarrassed by the animal cruelty that occurs in their bullfights? Did your Dutch friends apologize to you for their public promiscuity, legalized prostitution and drug use? Did the French apologize for their irregular bathing, snobbery and fickleness in political alliances? Did the Middle Easterners apologize for their constant squirmishes and terrorism and all manner of oppression against women? Are you also apologetic about the way the US has impacted the world economy? There are way worse things than American college football.</p>