dash is dead im teleporting to the past
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Picture the expressions of U.S. Soccer Federation officials every time Alex Morgan went lightly skipping down the pitch and scored another goal in the Americans’ opening match of the women’s World Cup. The falling faces, the slack mouths, the groans and the fingertips pressed to their creased foreheads, as their legal position became ever more indefensible.
Just imagine how that record-setting 13-0 victory over Thailand will play at a jury trial. It’s going to be a lot of fun watching lawyers for the soccer federation try to justify why the U.S. Women’s National Team, with their air rifles for legs, are paid 38 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts and had to sue for fair wages. It’s going to be pure entertainment listening to federation president Carlos Cordiero stammer out an explanation on the witness stand of why this team, which is nothing short of an American damn treasure, isn’t worth equal coin to a men’s squad that can’t beat Jamaica
I don’t want to hear another word about the bigger size of revenue in the men’s World Cup. You think American networks and corporations are paying large rights fees and sponsorship deals for a USA men’s team that couldn’t even qualify for the World Cup field and hasn’t won an Olympic medal since 1904? You think Fox and ESPN got into a bidding war for the English language rights to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups all for a men’s squad that gets whipped by Venezuela?
No. The women’s program is the entire backbone and inspiriting force of soccer in America — and has been ever since 1996. “A crown jewel,” is what one Fox executive called its telecast of this women’s tournament
Do you have any Clexa fanfic recommendations?
Check my Clexa fic recs tag below for older recs, but a few stories I’ve really enjoyed recently:
- Gold, Red by AphroditesLaw
- Let’s Ruin Thanksgiving by sans_carte
- I’m begging of you please don’t take my man by outlier
- breathe into my lips the life I do not have by ur_the_puppy