But the recently concluded Ryder Cup, in which Team Europe (including local man Rory McIlroy) clinched victory yesterday made the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Team Europe was subjected to an unprecedented level of abuse by American fans at the venue as this report in the Independent records…“Shane Lowry fired a two-word expletive towards an American fan at the Ryder Cup as tensions spilled over in the Saturday fourballs at Bethpage Black. Guardian deputy US sports editor Bryan Armen Graham has a theory…“But framing Bethpage as a one-off misses the larger point. The country now lives in all-caps, from school-board meetings that sound like street rallies and comment sections that have spilled into the street. Put a rope line and a microphone in front of that mix and you get exactly what you got at the Ryder Cup: people testing boundaries not because the moment needs them to, but because they’ve been told volume is virtue.