Herr Klinsmann’s dive into the American dream

PANIC set in at the back of the hastily-arranged press conference on the ground floor of Niketown.

Quick clarification: no, America has not given over an entire town to Nike. And definitely not on prime real estate around the corner from Tiffany’s in Midtown, Manhattan. The human race has yet to breach that barrier.

However Nike did shut its five story town down on Monday morning so that one of the many sporting entities that bears its swish could enjoy a little bit of the excessive media fanfare that percolates around New York.