Call them both football, even though one is obviously hand egg.
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.
I saw comments unironically saying last year was a true “world” series because the Blue Jays were in it.
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.
Sure but that’s true of a lot of football leagues too.
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.
Excuse me! Canada won it last year.
We did?
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.
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
Except that one time when you win on a technicality in a tie by “who got the most points a specific way”
Kick this sheep’s bladder around or I’ll punch your wives again!
Talkin’ cricket
Oh really? Cricket!? Lol.
Confused?
Nope
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.
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.
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.
rugby still gives people CTE. footie, too
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.
It’s a game of strategy and formations, like chess or military drills, instead of just kicking a ball around for 90 minutes.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Gotta have time to talk, drink, take a piss, get a snack, argue about the last play, etc.
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 encourage 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
Is that new? I played peewee football starting at like 9 or 10 and we tackled
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…
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
Which ones is hackysack?
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.
It’s football all the way down…
So we all agree that England sucks at sports names.
Remember when Forest Gump played football in the Olympics?
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
Glen Hoddle is having a goal!
Futbol or “mURIca fIRsT rOUnD up ThE mEXiCanS and mOoohAmEDs haNG thE cOMMie cLINtoNs cos pIZzaGaTe I aiNt no FAGGit”
I’m calling you an ambulance.
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.
Well atleast we had a oddly intense game with the french
We’ll only leave the country if we get to fight the French.
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…
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 💀
Stupid sport anyway, as horses can barely swim without a rider.
Which championship? Which sport? Which country in the UK?
All of them. All of them. All of them.
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
