Whereabouts do you live? I'm off to a Blackhawks ice hockey game in December, I'll test out both theories then. Though I have to say my experiences at an American football match and a baseball game support your thinking. Also that very little time is spent actually watching the sport as opposed to eating and drinking. And buying stuff. Then they leave early. This has not been a good afternoon for Europe.
I spend 7-8 weeks a year in the States for work. Have to say I rather like it, and Americans, for all the manifest faults, though I did turn down the chance to move over permanently. I don't like the knee jerk anti Americanism you see over here too frequently, but in the case of the Ryder Cup crowd it's fair.
Breaking news: after the completion of the fourballs, there will be a short ceremony to celebrate the life of Lee Westwood's putter.
Best place for it! I always thought that the Ryder Cup should involve the Aussies, how good would that be?
The behaviour of the American TEAM at times has been atrocious. Remember '99 at Brookline when they (and others) ran onto the green after they had sunk a monster putt? We still had a putt to halve the hole. The green must've been well ****ed after they trampled all over it. That, for me sums up the average american. Boorish, crass, over inflated opinions of themselves, ignorant and poor sportsmen,
I here what you are saying but it would be unfair to classify them all the same. There is good and bad in all of us. Yes, l well remember that event but l'm sure there are many ( American fans ) who simply ask for a fair competition. The American PGA team, l'm not so sure. Come on Europe!!!!
Would be unbelievable to turn it around from here. At 9-7 I'd have fancied us but think Westwood has ****ed it.
That summing up is about as accurate as the stereotype of the average Englishman as uptight, asexual, narrow minded, class ridden, alcoholic with bad teeth and a hygiene problem. With a chip on their shoulder about the USA.
I see both teams have 'front-loaded' the singles order of play. Some tasty match-ups and Europe will need to find some form from the bottom-half of the line-up. Sadly, some of the Rookies such as Fitzpatrick and Sullivan have only played in one defeat and with Westwood and Kaymer looking shot of all confidence it's going to take a dramatic turnaround in form to close the gap. Hard to see anything other than a decisive US victory...
A beered up American Ryder Cup crowd is certainly not representative of Americans who are warm and friendly on the whole.
The Americans would be more palatable if their songs weren't so ****. It's like having 80,000 coked up teenagers from Q block on each fairway.
I like Stenson's humour, after hitting his opening drive behind the portable toilets he said on seeing where it ended up "That was a sh*t shot". Didn't do him much good as Spieth puts the Yanks ahead...
Some of the golf being played is unreal. McIlroy and Reed are tearing it up and Europe are making a fight of it...
