Re: OTish: Why don't Americans take football more seriously?

Mr Nemo goes:

Soccer is the biggest and most popular sport in the world. Indeed,
cricket and rugby are pretty popular too. But just as they opted to
alter the spellings of many English words, the Americans invented
baseball and American football rather than play considerably better
games which have been around for several centuries.

As a result of this, the Americans are alienated by their own obstinacy
from participating in many culturally diverse sporting competitions.
Instead, they have to call their baseball competition the 'World
Series', even though no one else participates in this bizarre variation
upon rounders.

No one doubts that if the Americans put their mind to it, they could
create world champion teams in many of the sports they currently refuse
to take seriously. So why are they so damned obstinate about
participating in sports like soccer, rugby and cricket along with the
rest of the world?

Nemo

You'd be better trolling Americans in some place they congregate, like
maybe alt.cream-cakes.


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