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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke (Post 1377464)

Touchdown :cool:.

Never was that 'term' more appropriate.

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1377457)

There is a thing called cultural differences and American Football is that good only to americans because of the rich history that it has here. Other countries don't want to play it because they don't share that same history. It's the same thing as Why does a large majority of American people hate/don't care about your version of football? It's not that great then by your logic.

So because Americans don't like it it's not so great? :rolleyes: What about the rest of the world? Football is acknowledged as the single most popular sport in the world man! Just cos you Yanks don't get it --- and let's not forget, the odd time you do well you're all over the effing place about how great your team is --- doesn't make it no good. What arrogance!

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Society is indeed telling you to like football that's why you have such rabid ****ing fans in football. Not because the game is in the least way exciting. It's just for the atomsphere of other people being there and being drunk.

Again, you know nothing about football and its history. I don't go to matches or drink, but I love it. It can be enjoyed without being drunk. The unpredictability of say a tiny team unexpectedly beating a world class one can't be overstated. It's a game in which anything can happen. Now, given that, I know next to nothing about American Football, and it's possible unexpected things can happen in the games of course, but it does seem to be almost choreographed to the nth degree, removing a lot of the spontanaeity from it you get from football here.

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1377453)

I think it matters because most sports are enjoyed outside either their country of origin or the one acknowledged to be the best at it. Other than GAA and hurling. And camogie. And just about every indigineous Irish sport.

But baseball, basketball, American Football and so on are pretty much US-only interests, and few people outside of America care about them. I mean, come on: the "World Series"??? :rolleyes:

World series is legit since all the best players play here. Its the best league in the world and not close

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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke (Post 1377454)

Because if American football is that good why doesn't anyone outside of America play it?

Society is not telling me to like football.

Cricket is huge here, I think it's toss.

Cause its a much more complicated sport than all other sports. Would take forever to teach and learn

The transfer market :cool:.

Player 'drafts' :o:.

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Originally Posted by butthead aka 216 (Post 1377467)

World series is legit since all the best players play here. Its the best league in the world and not close

And all the best football players play in Europe.

Calling it the 'world series' when only American teams can play in it :o:.

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1377453)

I think you're trying to bait someone into an argument but I'll bite. You think baseball and basketball are not played outside the US?? Ever heard of Mexican baseball or the Dominican Republic or Venezuela?? Ever noticed the enormous number of American baseball players who have Spanish surnames and who speak with Spanish accents???

And apparently, you've never heard of European basketball which has produced NBA stars like Petrovich, Divacs, Gasol, not to mention Tony Parker who was born in Bruges, Belgium and is a French citizen in case you didn't notice his French accent.

Getting back to baseball, let's not forget MLB players with names like Suzuki, Shinjo, Sasaki, Nomo, Matsui, and Yu Darvish (half-Japanese and half-Iranian).

Next, you'll be saying nobody cares about hockey outside the US.

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Originally Posted by Lord Larehip (Post 1377470)

Baseball is a poor man's cricket.

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And apparently, you've never heard of European basketball

:confused:

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Next, you'll be saying nobody cares about hockey outside the US.

They don't mate.

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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke (Post 1377469)

And all the best football players play in Europe.

Calling it the 'world series' when only American teams can play in it :o:.

Well I mean 99.9 percent pf the best play here
Its the cream of the crop of the world so I don't see why its a problem. I've never heard any baseball fan complain about it

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Originally Posted by butthead aka 216 (Post 1377467)

Cause its a much more complicated sport than all other sports. Would take forever to teach and learn

lolwut

Its super easy to get the jist of American football.

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Originally Posted by butthead aka 216 (Post 1377473)

Well I mean 99.9 percent pf the best play here
Its the cream of the crop of the world so I don't see why its a problem. I've never heard any baseball fan complain about it

But they're American teams. It's just stupid on every level.

The English Premier League is full of international players. It's an English league. If you win, you're the champions of England (technically Wales too since Swansea & Cardiff play in it).

If it was a true 'World Series' you should have the countries of the world play each other. But nobody gives enough of a fuck about baseball to field a team other than Americans