Have you ever ranked your “tiers” of teams in sports?
For instance, my first tier would be the St. Louis Cardinals and a team to be named in a couple of lines. Second tier, I have Southern Illinois basketball. Third tier, Illinois basketball. All else is pretty much below that.
My point is that everyone has one team that should be in their first tier—the old U S of A! USA! USA!
I, unfortunately, have never been able to root for the USA live, so I have never been part of a legitimate USA chant. Plenty of USA chants, but never one directly related to a sporting event, it was always at bars after Michael Phelps wins gold medals, or at pro wrestling.
One of my personal goals in life is to be part of a legitimate USA chant. It’s achievable, I believe.
The point of all of this is that it’s Fourth of July weekend, which means that it’s time for the Top Seven to update its greatest Americans in sports list. Happy birthday America!
7. Albert Pujols
In classic Pujols fashion, he scored a perfect 100% on his American citizenship test a couple of years ago. He’s also about halfway through one of the best seasons that anyone has ever had in baseball history.
He has guys hitting behind him that have hit right around .220 this year. He’s still on pace for over 60 home runs. He is destroying anything that people give to him right now, which is not much.
Perhaps the most amazing part of his season is his ten stolen bases, which leads the Cardinals. Ten. He has a shot to go 60/20 this season.
It’s going to be entertaining to see which national writer tries to give the first half NL MVP to someone else. Whoever it is, they should never be allowed to write about baseball ever again.
6. Mark Cuban
Just because it’s like a real-life “Little Big League.” He gets to do anything he wants for as long he wants. That’s awesome.
5. Shaq
He’s fun-loving, and very much enjoys eating. He also has dreams of being in Hollywood (Kazaam is so good), but when it comes down to it, wouldn’t mind settling down as a simple blue-collar working police officer.
He’s also on Twitter, which is apparently not only a prerequisite to be an American right now, but also necessary to mention at least once every 90 seconds if you are a member of the media.
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