cheerleading, dance, america

I find watching amateur sports on TV kind of amusing. In the past month or two, Hippo and I have braved incredibly boring commentary and awful team names as we watched the girls' college softball championships and the UCA high school cheerleading competitions on ESPN2. All the cheerleading teams had names with either "super" or "elite" in the title, and they were all based in obscure areas of Pennsylvia, New York, Florida and Kentucky. You know, if everyone is super than no one is not super. Sounds like American logic to me. I thought of this when I came home to find a link to this amazing, coordinated dance by Samsung-sponsored dancers in my inbox, which puts all those high schoolers to super shame. Gizmodo suggests that Americans aren't capable of this level of cooperation. Probably not!