Alright, America.

So you’ve won the last 20 Stanley Cups in hockey, and you’ve got all those Dream Teams in basketball. In baseball, we’ve got Justin Morneau, Joey Votto and Jason Bay while you’ve got … well, pretty much every other good player in the major leagues whose name doesn’t end with a ‘z’.

But you know what sport we are better than you at? Football.

No, not soccer. I’m talking four-down, smash-mouth, gridiron football. America’s game. The sport to which you dedicate entire weekends and billions of dollars.

On Saturday night, Canada beat the U.S. 23-17 in the gold medal game of the 2012 International Federation of American Football Under-19 World Championships at Burger Stadium in Austin, Texas.

Yep, a bunch of maple-syrup-slurping Canuck high-schoolers went right into the heart of football country and mopped the field with your future U.S. college and NFL stars.

Just a fluke you say? Au contraire. We also beat you 35-29 back on Feb. 1 at the third annual International Bowl. So that’s twice now that a country with the population roughly the size of California has beaten your best under-19 football players.

“We had one goal and one goal in mind and that was to come back with a gold medal around our neck,” said Canadian head coach Noel Thorpe, a defensive coordinator at the University of Montreal. “These guys believed in it and they played 48 minutes of solid football. I couldn’t be prouder of these guys.”

Kevin McGee, a defensive back for the Canadian squad who had two interceptions in the game, was named the tournament’s MVP. Against players who have been recruited to American college powerhouses like Alabama, Florida and Nebraska, McGee attends tiny Champlain College in Lennoxville, Quebec.

“This week has been the best experience of my life,” McGee said after the game. “I met some new people, I worked really hard and I think I’m a better football player after this.”

So, did the American side take the loss with the same level of grace? Sadly, no.

“You’re still from Canada and say ‘eh’ all the time, so stuff it,” wrote Sean Newell in Deadspin. “When did you guys have time to learn football between all the ice-fishing and snow shoveling, anyway?”

And they were equally merciless on Twitter. Wrote CBS blogger Matt Hinton:

“That’s it, Canadian teenagers defeat U.S. team made up almost entirely of D-1 recruits in U-19 football. A nation hides its face in shame.”

Well, don’t start setting up any senate investigations just yet. I can’t name any notable Canadians in the NFL, and even the CFL has American imports in most of the key positions. Our university games draw as many fans in a season that some U.S. college programs draw on a single Saturday. So Canada has a long way to go to catch up to you in terms of being a football powerhouse.

But after all the humbling Canadian defeats at the hands of the Americans lately – right down to Steve Nash turning his back on Toronto to sign with the L.A. Lakers – it’s nice to come out on the winning side for once.

So take that, America.