This seriously led to the best day of my life.
My friends and I were watching the whole game, getting more angst by the minute, yelling at refs and the players, and from about the 85th minute on, we'd just given up and were sulking on the various couches and chairs, not even moving. From Tim Howard's throw forward, you could see each of us inching closer and closer to the TV. When Dempsey's shot missed, each of us had this little yelp, but then Donovan's went in, and we all just started screaming and piling on each other. I waited 5 seconds for them to put the goal on the board to make sure it wasn't waved off for bull**** reasons, and then I jumped on top.
After a minute or so, we just looked over at one my friends' 2-year old girl who was just silent, watching us with eyes wide open. Then she just started bawling. We consoled her, waited for them to call time, and then we celebrated.
We drove to the nearby city to Wal-Mart and bought a bunch of mini-USA flags, and a big net. Then we went back to the car, rolled all our windows down, and chanted USA through the streets. We stopped at the local sporting goods place and bought a regulation World Cup soccer ball while we were there, then took every song that played on the way home and turned them into lyrics about the game, i.e. instead of Kiss's Lick it Up, we sang "KICK IT IN! KICK IT IN! DOOOOONOOOOOVAN (AND SAVE THE DAY NOW)".
When we got back home, we tied the net between these two trees at the park and played pick-up soccer games until the sun set. It was ****ing fantastic.
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