USA Makes Phenomenal Comeback, Gets Robbed, Draws Slovenia 2-2

My only thoughts are "wow." The United States just entered the second half trailing 2-0 to Slovenia -- a country that is small enough to geographically fit 485 of itself in the United States -- in their second match of the World Cup. Sparked by a lazer beam into the upper 90 from an impossible angle by Landon Donovan, the Americans began pouring on the scoring chances. Finally, in the 82nd minute, coach's son Michael Bradley delivered the equalizer on a brilliantly timed strike over the keeper's shoulder. All even. And then -- as if the two-goal comeback wasn't enough -- the red, white, and blue struck the go ahead tally on a cross into the box. The problem was, the officials took it away. The call was either offsides or a foul, but strangely enough, not a single person on the field was able to inform anyone what the call actually was. Upon further review from the replay, it was not even remotely close to being offsides. Like, the player who struck the ball was a solid 10 yards onside upon the release of the cross. A completely absurd phantom call. The commentators and both squads -- everyone knew just how bad it was.

For the USA, it's a bitter ending to swallow knowing they could have escaped with 3 points from this match. Nonetheless, even though they were stripped of 2 of those 3, they are still in solid shape if they can gather a win in their final group match against Algeria on Wednesday. But, for the record, I truly hope the World Cup prevents this officiating crew from reffing another game in this tournament.