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[–] Furbag@pawb.social 86 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Call your championship title the World Series.

Don't invite the rest of the world.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure but that's true of a lot of football leagues too.

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[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 weeks ago

I saw comments unironically saying last year was a true "world" series because the Blue Jays were in it.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Excuse me! Canada won it last year.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Once we annex the U.S we'll have to change the name.

[–] habitualcynic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Go Canada, but they lost last year.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 77 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Kick this sheep's bladder around or I'll punch your wives again!

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

More like Spanish and Portuguese former colonies. Since USA, Canada, Australia, India, etc not that great at football ⚽

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

India is beating UK at cricket.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Good thing i'm taking about cricket then. You know, the one actually played by india, australia, pakistan, west indies, new zealand. Etc

[–] pumpupthejam@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Rugby is popular in the Commonwealth

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Neocorporation@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Neocorporation@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta have time to talk, drink, take a piss, get a snack, argue about the last play, etc.

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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Highschool? Everyone i knew got in in elementary or middle school. Those who tried to start in highschool never even touched the field

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[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The Australian version is: Invent new sport. No one else in the world is insane enough to play it.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

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.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

We have Australian Football leagues in many countries. USA vs Canada is in a couple of weeks in British Columbia.

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[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Call them both football, even though one is obviously hand egg.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

... well, there is that one brief moment they use a foot /s

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

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

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

The word Soccer comes from England, too. It's a Britishized version of "association football" with a typical R appended.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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!

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

So it's all football?

Always has been.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's football all the way down...

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Remember when Forest Gump played football in the Olympics?

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 weeks ago

If the US side is referring to baseball they lose all the time on the world stage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic

[–] outlawcarl@fedinsfw.app 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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Well atleast we had a oddly intense game with the french

[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We’ll only leave the country if we get to fight the French.

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[–] Shrubbery@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I think this is about football and American football.

I.. Dont think england invented soccer, though

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I took it as sarcasm.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 💀

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[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which championship? Which sport? Which country in the UK?

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

All of them. All of them. All of them.

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