Tommy Vietor

who must have been a big fish on every playing field he was in in Alabama, then went over as a teen to one of the greatest teams in the world, Bayern Munich, suddenly became a tiny fish in an enormous trout farm, kind of lost all of his confidence, got complete cultural dislocation, but has been able tenaciously to resummon.

His presence as a defender, kind of like a lockdown cornerback now in the Premier League.

He's won things, still a sweet, soft, soulful, wonderful human being.

I mean, there's many, many players like him that I root for.

One touch, one goal, one moment.

The commercial upside for this World Cup to become the face of this team, to have a TikTok that goes viral because of something beautiful that you do.

It's a diverse team.

I think they're a great face of our nation.

They're led by a manager, an Argentinian, Mauricio Pochettino, who's like a globally revered manager.

He's either going to lift us up like a basketball coach going to Iona State and taking them.

What's that guy?

Yeah, yeah.

He'll have a Pitino take us up to his standard or he'll Bill Belichick it and just suddenly be chasing after...

floundering on the floor at North Carolina.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

You can't wait to leave in many ways.

But we will go as he goes.

If he does his thing and raises us up,

Joy can be ours.

We could be just lolloping around on the floor chasing after a cheeseburger in Hasselhoffian fashion.