KCBS Sports Fans: Are We Going To Be Americans About This?

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KCBS News AnchorStan Bunger(who along with KCBS Sports AnchorSteve Bitkerare the on-air duo known asKCBS Sports Fans) offers his unique sports analysis.

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) America is going gaga over soccer. All of a sudden, were painting our faces and destroying workplace productivity so we can follow the mens national team at the World Cup.

So now that the USMNT (thats insider-lingo, apparently required of anyone who REALLY knows whats up) has reached the Round of 16 by losing to Germany, its time to start acting like Americans.

For starters, why do red-blooded Americans suddenly go all Euro when talking about the score of a soccer game? Two-nil? Please. Two-to-nothing is the way we talk here. Try going to AT&T Park and talking about the four-nil final score of Lincecums no-hitter. See how that works out for you.

The list seems endless. We already offend foreign ears by calling the game soccer (because we all know what football really is), so why do we feel compelled to call the surface on which its played a pitch? Its a field, same as it is when you play anything else on it.

And for crying out loud, when someone scores a tying goal, they tied the game up. Leveling is for building contractors.

If you insist on using un-American sports language, then why not go all-in? The Brits call a game a fixture. Here, we keep our fixtures in the bathroom or kitchen. They also refer to the standings (as in, Whos in first?) as the table. Here in this country, a soccer table is that game in the basement of the frat house.

I could go on, but by now, I hope you get the point. Its bad enough that the greatest country on Earth saw its citizens dancing in the streets after its national team lost its way into the next round of a soccer tournament. Must we surrender our sporting language, too?

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KCBS Sports Fans: Are We Going To Be Americans About This?