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Or Like Anybody Rooting For The Dallas Cowboys. Ever
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If you're a casual fan who doesn't really follow soccer, especially the U.S. Men's National Team, you wouldn't necessarily understand the controversy, but Landon Donovan's ads for Wells Fargo saying that in the absence of the U.S. team from the World Cup, he's cheering for Mexico is being received as blasphemy -- seriously, not in jest -- by many in the soccer world. There is serious offense being taken, because while you can assume that the thrust of Donovan's ads is to lend support to Mexico as the immigration and wall issues roil America, politics has less to do with it than the rivalry, which is Yankees-Red Sox or Ohio State-Michigan hot. The reaction to Donovan has been extreme. Is it justified? (Los Angeles Times)
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