What Has France Ever Done For Us?

Sporting News’ Jim Ryan will be in Winston-Salem, NC, this Friday through Sunday to cover the United States’ tie against France in the Davis Cup quarterfinals. ↵↵Why root against France? Because we bailed them out of two world wars. ↵

↵↵And all they’ve ever given us is beignets, crepes, croissants, duck a l’orange, mayonnaise, champagne, cognac, Grand Marnier, Perrier, impressionism, help defeating England, the design for Washington, D.C., Louisiana for less than three cents per acre, New Orleans, Mardi Gras, the Statue of Liberty, Tocqueville, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, “Madame Bovary”, “The Count of Monte Cristo”, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, The University of Notre Dame, the hot air balloon, the sewing machine, the daguerreotype, Mansard roofs, pasteurization, Braille, the bikini, pictures of Laetitia Casta in the bikini, Sophie Marceau, Jacques Cousteau, Daft Punk, Marcel Duchamp, Chanel No. 5, Louis Vuitton luggage, Hermes ties, Lacoste tennis shirts, tennis itself, croquet, Jean Girard, Andre the Giant, giant dudes for Vince Carter to dunk over, Tony Parker, the Tour de Lance and quite possibly the greatest sports-related YouTube video ever. ↵

↵↵Freakin’ ingrates. ↵

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