There's this episode of Sports Night called "Mary Pat Shelby." The show hasn't been on for nearly two decades, but there's a line from the episode that I still find myself going back to too much. It's uttered twice in "Mary Pat Shelby," first as something of a throwaway at the beginning and then more forcefully later, during a montage-y moment of triumph about Doing The Right Thing.
We did a big thing badly.
I thought about it when Hope Solo was charged with domestic violence in 2014. When U.S. Soccer's tone deafness became so pervasive that none of us could hear the song right anymore.