Who doesn’t love a storybook ending? Tonight, in the PGA Championship, The Korean-born Y.E. Yang defeated that juggernaut of golf, Tiger Woods. And it got me thinking …
Did you ever see Rocky IV? I know – everyone has, of course. There’s a fiece nationalistic, almost jingoistic fervor over Ivan Drago, the intimidating boxer from the Soviet Union. The entire nation is enamored by their athlete, and cheer him like a national hero. He is set to crush the smaller Rocky Balboa in a hugely built-up fight in the Soviet Union.
Then – half way through the final fight in Moscow, Rocky gives an uppercut and actually cuts the Soviet fighter. And the crowd is shocked. He’s actually human. They go on and trade shots, until one of the scary Soviet premiers goes down to the ring to yell at Drago. And Drago picks him up and says something like “Yah schmmee NAH! Yah schmee NAH!!” Or at least that’s how I remember it. The subtitles say, “I fight for me. I fight for me!”.
The crowd realizes that their guy isn’t the hero they thought he was. And kinda selfish. And then they actually start to cheer for Rocky. Read more »




