If the US side is referring to baseball they lose all the time on the world stage
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.
Excuse me! Canada won it last year.
Go Canada, but they lost last year.
Once we annex the U.S we'll have to change the name.
The Australian version is: Invent new sport. No one else in the world is insane enough to play it.
Personally I would like to participate in the motorcycle chariot race, but then again I'm a Californian Redneck so basically an Aussie alternative.
We have Australian Football leagues in many countries. USA vs Canada is in a couple of weeks in British Columbia.
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.
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.
Gotta have time to talk, drink, take a piss, get a snack, argue about the last play, etc.
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?
Highschool? Everyone i knew got in in elementary or middle school. Those who tried to start in highschool never even touched the field
That's actually so fucked up. How can you encouragd or even allow children to join activities that you know is going to injure them permanently?
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
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....
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
Kick this sheep's bladder around or I'll punch your wives again!
Talkin' cricket
More like Spanish and Portuguese former colonies. Since USA, Canada, Australia, India, etc not that great at football ⚽
Good thing i'm taking about cricket then. You know, the one actually played by india, australia, pakistan, west indies, new zealand. Etc
India is beating UK at cricket.
Rugby is popular in the Commonwealth
I dunno, my USA jersey has four stars over the crest.
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.
I took it as sarcasm.
I think this is about football and American football.
I.. Dont think england invented soccer, though
I read it as football v baseball, but that also works.
I was thinking basketball
Basketball is Canadian in origin, Dr. Naismith was a Canadian citizen when he created basketball.
Baseball originated in England
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
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…
Well atleast we had a oddly intense game with the french
Football or football?
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
In Australia we play footy, and we also play a different game called rugby
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!
So it's all football?
Always has been.
So we all agree that England sucks at sports names.
It's football all the way down...
Remember when Forest Gump played football in the Olympics?
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 💀
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
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