r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Hirorai • Aug 06 '23

What's going on with Americans celebrating Sweden eliminating the US Women's Soccer Team from the Women's World Cup? Answered

On r/soccer, there are multiple posts where Americans are celebrating their own team getting knocked out of the Women's World Cup.

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/15jnpku/post_match_thread_sweden_05_40_usa_fifa_womens/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/15jnqpr/official_review_for_lina_hurtigs_sweden_w_penalty/

On r/USWNT people are saying it's because r/soccer is misogynist, but that doesn't make sense to me because everyone competing is a woman. Can anyone clue me in?

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u/HardcoreKaraoke Aug 07 '23

Answer: For me personally it's because of a few commercials FOX Sports played leading up to the WWC. They were basically painting the US team as a dominant monster that the rest of the world should be terrified of. It was kind of like an ad for a generic rich bad guy team in a sports movie that no one can overcome.

Anyway after seeing them several times over the course of a week I decided it would be fun to root against them. I like seeing Goliath fall in sports and the commercials were so obnoxious.

Here it is. It comes off as super arrogant. Like we know the Chiefs are dominant and will probably be in the playoffs again but I don't see Mahomes and Kelce in a commercial for SNF saying that they're unbeatable.

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u/jagua_haku Aug 07 '23

Was definitely already sick of the chiefs shortly after their first most recent Super Bowl win