Climb down from your high horse, America, and let me tell you about real big-time sports — not the regionalized, rinky-dink version of sports we know as the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball.
Let me tell you about the most dynastic, decorated, powerful, passion-filled sports team in the history of the world — the Brazilian national soccer team that throttled Haiti 7-1 Wednesday night in a Copa América Centenario match at Camping World Stadium.
We Americans act like we know how important sports are, but we really have no idea. The Brazilian nationals make the New York Yankees seem like the Toledo Mudhens; they make the New England Patriots seem like the Peoria Pitbulls; they make the Alabama Crimson Tide seem like UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs.