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

Sofa - Spud wrote:
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.

No that's not true.

http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp

Like American Football the Superbowl winner's are "World Champions" i.e
they are the best in the way. And I suppose they probably are given that no
one else plays American Football in a professional league.


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