- 7 days
Or move to really small country like Luxembourg, Malta, Andora and be a country representative player
- 8 days
Call your championship title the World Series.
Don’t invite the rest of the world.
A substantial number of baseball’s all-stars, in Major League Baseball, are not from the US. It’s a popular enough sport elsewhere, but the best players tend to want to come to the US to play. About 25% of the players are foreign.
Same with basketball, which hasn’t had an American MVP in 8 years. About 30% of the players are foreign.
- 7 days
Being from a country and playing a sport in the country they immigrated to doesn’t mean the country they came from is big into that sport…
What you’re saying is like saying “many who like this very US specific food are not from the US, so that means that food is common outside the US.”
How do you not see the idiocy of that?
It’s still a mainly US specific sport, the fact that many who play it (in the US) aren’t from the US doesn’t change that fact at all.My point is that the best in the world at those two sports compete in the top US professional leagues, and that anyone in the world is welcome to participate if they have the skill level. Nothing you’ve said addresses my point, and you’re arguing against something I’ve never said or implied.
To your point, though, both baseball and basketball are quite popular in the countries of origin of these international players. Baseball is huge in Japan, Korea, and much of Latin America. Basketball is huge in much of Europe, and the Euro League is competitive, as are the national leagues in Spain, Italy, and France. But the young stars from those leagues (and Turkey, Australia, and China) have been drafted into the NBA after having already proven themselves in professional competitive play. So not only are you arguing against something I never said, you just showed up, uninvited, to be wrong about it.
Most other leagues don’t call their own championships/titles the “world” anything. American Major League Baseball explicitly calls its finals the World Series. The American NBA calls its winners the World Champions.
For those two sports and leagues, it’s a pretty solid argument that those are the best players and coaches in the world at those sports, where the American leagues attract the absolute best talent.
It’s harder to make that argument for soccer leagues around the world, though.
I saw comments unironically saying last year was a true “world” series because the Blue Jays were in it.
- Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
Invent a sport
Export it to all your colonies
Have them all kick your arse at it every season
#winning
Edit: cricket, guys. I’m very clearly talking about cricket
- 8 days
More like Spanish and Portuguese former colonies. Since USA, Canada, Australia, India, etc not that great at football ⚽
- Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
Good thing i’m taking about cricket then. You know, the one actually played by india, australia, pakistan, west indies, new zealand. Etc
- 7 days
Except that one time when you win on a technicality in a tie by “who got the most points a specific way”
Hot take from an American: American football actually fucking sucks big time and is incredibly MAGA coded these days.
People supporting a sport that 90% of former professional players acquire CTE are fucking morons. Especially given how many young kids get into this shit in highschool, and get CTE and become absolute pieces of shit because of it.
Its baffling this sport and sports with similar problems are still popular, let alone the most popular ones in the US.
- 8 days
All I remember about American Football was how fucking slow the pace of the game was compared to literally every other mainstream sport. It was definitely designed for a fat ass country.
- Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
You dont want to watch 20 minutes total of game play, 974 ads, 40 minutes of dudes squatting in a line, 20 minutes of B-roll and 60 minutes of random people in the crowd, every week for several weeks, while also needing to pay 5-7 services to catch all of your favorite team’s games?
- 8 days
No I never watched it. I had the unfortunate pleasure of playing a few games during sports week through my UK school years. It was every bit as fucking boring as you implied. There is a reason only Americans play that shit.
Reminder it the all American sport used to be baseball which while I don’t enjoy it personally is an actually functional and well made game to the point where you can listen to a radio commentary and know what’s going on. Seriously why the actual fuck did football overtake baseball, it’s like how MMA overtook boxing.
8 daysGotta have time to talk, drink, take a piss, get a snack, argue about the last play, etc.
- Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
It’s a game of strategy and formations, like chess or military drills, instead of just kicking a ball around for 90 minutes.
- 7 days
Yeah I keep forgetting only the games of chess, military drills?? And American football has strategy and formations, my bad.
It does seem fun to be an NFL coach. much less boring, and dangerous.
- 7 days
Football has a ton of strategy and formations. Don’t watch the ball for a half and just look at the backline and the movement in the mid field.
Not disagreeing with you on American football either. I love watching post game tape.
- Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
Highschool? Everyone i knew got in in elementary or middle school. Those who tried to start in highschool never even touched the field
- 7 days
That’s actually so fucked up. How can you encourage or even allow children to join activities that you know is going to injure them permanently?
- speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish7 days
It’s a training ground for the minds of future voters in that country
- Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
Usually for younger teams there are rules against tackles, or a variation called “Flag football” is played where you are essentially tackled if a flag is taken from your waist
- 8 days
true for elementary, but i was doing full contact starting 6th grade (age 11,) lived all over the South and it’s the norm. i actually really like American football, the sport itself. but can’t say i like that part…
- Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Im in Ohio from what i can only describe as a recruitment high school, so honestly my view may be limited. I think youre right about middle school being the switch to full contact.
Which… Is kinda extremely concerning
- 7 days
Is that new? I played peewee football starting at like 9 or 10 and we tackled
- 7 days
I’m surprised the US never found a love for rugby, it’s a brilliant sport to play and spectate but it tends to be a fair bit less dangerous to its players than American football. There’s various reasons but the lack of protective gear is a factor people talk about a lot ironically.
Interestingly go far back enough in time and they evolved from a common ancestor, but nowadays there’s little to unite them other than fact they’re both full-contact ball sports.
- Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish8 days
The Australian version is: Invent new sport. No one else in the world is insane enough to play it.
Idk the Irish do a decent job of it and quite often hand us our arses at it as well
Personally I would like to participate in the motorcycle chariot race, but then again I’m a Californian Redneck so basically an Aussie alternative.
- bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
We have Australian Football leagues in many countries. USA vs Canada is in a couple of weeks in British Columbia.
There are actually two. Maybe three, if you separate FGs and extra points.
- 7 days
4: Kickoff, field goal, extra point, and punt.
Though kickoff is the only one where an entire legal play can occur without hands touching the ball, since the others require a deep snap from the center.
The name football comes from England I thought, where they called any game played on foot football as opposed to being on horseback or some shit. So rugby was football. The U.S. version of such also was known as football. Hence why Australia also calls Australian Rugby, football or footy.
Meaning that in spirit, baseball and basketball are also football, lolol
You’ve given the basis for ‘soccer’, which is an abbreviation for association football or footballer as I understand.
- 8 days
The word Soccer comes from England, too. It’s a Britishized version of “association football” with a typical R appended.
In that case, tennis is football, volleyball is football, bowling is football, snooker is football (or perhaps footballs?)
You’ve open Pandora’s box of football!
In Australia we play footy, and we also play a different game called rugby
There’s two rugby codes and I point it out because we always have to clarify with Victorians which one they mean
- 8 days
Your explanation is absolutely ludicrous.
‘Football’ comes from the English words ‘foot’ and ‘ball’ which mean approximately ‘foot’ and ‘ball’ respectively. So you could translate ‘football’ to something like ‘ball’s foot’, ‘ball of the foot’ or even ‘football’
ETA: sorry to the above commenter, I didn’t mean to appear aggressive but the downvotes seem to agree I have been excessive. Sorry, it was only a shitpost
- 8 days
Futbol or “mURIca fIRsT rOUnD up ThE mEXiCanS and mOoohAmEDs haNG thE cOMMie cLINtoNs cos pIZzaGaTe I aiNt no FAGGit”
- Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish8 days
In the US, that’s a serious threat. I had a friend call an ambulance for their roommate, and that roommate was in debt for at least the next 5 years.
- 8 days
If the US side is referring to baseball they lose all the time on the world stage
- ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
*Or to stop other people from fighting the French, since they’re England’s to fight.
- Shrubbery@piefed.socialEnglish8 days
The meme doesn’t make sense. If someone invents and wins at a sport that no one else cares about, that doesn’t sound like chad vibes. That sounds like basement dweller vibes.
- Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
I think this is about football and American football.
I… Dont think england invented soccer, though
Basketball is Canadian in origin, Dr. Naismith was a Canadian citizen when he created basketball.
- 8 days
Rounders originated in England. Before that people were whacking balls with bats in other countries. Baseball is from the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_baseball?useskin=vector#Origins
- ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish8 days
Britain invented football, hockey, ice hockey, cricket, baseball, tennis, golf, rugby, badminton, darts, snooker, netball, table tennis, squash, curling, rowing, hammer throw, shot put, water polo…
- AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish8 days
The bri’ish did this much. They invented waterpolo and their team is so weak that when i was a part of a local hungarian waterpolo team we got the chance to play against a few of their players and we actually beat them. THE NATIONAL TEAM against us, somewhere arround 6-8 in the hungarian rankings 💀
- 8 days
my fav manga is called Eyeshield 21. the first and only exposure i got to american football. i love it, but actually playing that sport? big naw bruh
