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


"Sofa - Spud" <comfysofas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mr Nemo wrote:
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

How daft - if the Americans don't want to play footy at the grass roots
level then they don't have to - we don't play baseball then again we
don't Pelot ( the french/spanish game with the curvy hand things and a
wall like squash) . No doubt there are other games from around the
world that we or the Americans don't play. Again the pathetic "why do
they call it the world series" - thinly disguised Anti American bilge -
it's called that becuase the "World" newspaper sponsored it or
something.

TBF, maybe the OP didn't realise this, but it is an easily understood
misunderstanding. Anti American bilge would be something more naive or
overt.

Why don't you just go to UK Politics and write "I don't like the USA"
and take it from there.


Because he asked a sensible question. Why is he a "troll" because he asked
a question?



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