The U.S. Men's National Team belly flopped in their greatest failure of the modern era, failing to qualify for the world's biggest sporting event for the first time in 31 years. It was utterly embarrassing. Humiliating. Heartless, gutless performances through most of this World Cup qualifying cycle, culminating in the perfect crap-storm of capitulation against Trinidad & Tobago on Tuesday. Coaching miscalculations, player apathy - just a colossal screw-up in every sense.
American soccer fans are livid because we've been robbed of the World Cup experience that we circle on the calendar as soon as the previous one ends.