Kevin Drum over at Mother Jones asks:
Now that you, the American taxpayer, more or less own insurance giant AIG, it turns out that you, the American taxpayer, are also the principal sponsor of Manchester United, thanks to a four-year, $100 million sponsorship deal signed in 2006. So this got me curious: how is our soccer football team doing?
Evidently this team isn’t doing very well, and Kevin posts a chart of data that he is looking for some help with, which sounds like it might be a job for some of our favorite commenters. But since this is our team now, I’m wondering what our favorite commenters would do to get this team back up to number one. And I want to know — is the Man United team cuter than the average American (traditional) football team?
EDIT: Delaware’s Most Underappreciated Writer (AKA Maria Evans) writes about this today, with pictures!