Thursday, September 20, 2007

We Interrupt This Program...

(a series involving radical departures from regular blog topics.)

...to call attention to the U.S. Women's World Cup team uniforms. The home uniforms ("kits") have gold as their base color. Check it out for yourself. I haven't looked at the updated U.S. Federal Government web pages, but last time I checked the colors of the country's flag were red, white and blue. Gold is not one of them, notwithstanding comments about American wealth and commercialism.

I'm already troubled by the fact that soccer goalkeepers have a different color jersey than the rest of their team, often one that isn't even a variation of the club colors - what kind of team uniform is that? Now we have an entire soccer team wearing different colors than the country for which they play. What is with this?

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