• Furbag@pawb.social
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    10 hours ago

    Call your championship title the World Series.

    Don’t invite the rest of the world.

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      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.

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      7 hours ago

      Personally I would like to participate in the motorcycle chariot race, but then again I’m a Californian Redneck so basically an Aussie alternative.

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      7 hours ago

      We have Australian Football leagues in many countries. USA vs Canada is in a couple of weeks in British Columbia.

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    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.

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      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.

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        11 hours ago

        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?

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          10 hours ago

          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.

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            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.

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      11 hours ago

      Highschool? Everyone i knew got in in elementary or middle school. Those who tried to start in highschool never even touched the field

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        That’s actually so fucked up. How can you encouragd or even allow children to join activities that you know is going to injure them permanently?

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          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

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            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…

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    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

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    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.

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      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

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        The word Soccer comes from England, too. It’s a Britishized version of “association football” with a typical R appended.

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        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!

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        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

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      Futbol or “mURIca fIRsT rOUnD up ThE mEXiCanS and mOoohAmEDs haNG thE cOMMie cLINtoNs cos pIZzaGaTe I aiNt no FAGGit”

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    12 hours ago

    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 💀

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    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