Call them both football, even though one is obviously hand egg.
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I’ve heard it called “Pig Skin” before.
or gridiron
... well, there is that one brief moment they use a foot /s
There are actually two. Maybe three, if you separate FGs and extra points.
4: Kickoff, field goal, extra point, and punt.
Though kickoff is the only one where an entire legal play can occur without hands touching the ball, since the others require a deep snap from the center.
guess who called it soccer first? it wasnt america
I bet Frank Reynolds is good at hand egg.
Or move to really small country like Luxembourg, Malta, Andora and be a country representative player
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.
Being from a country and playing a sport in the country they immigrated to doesn't mean the country they came from is big into that sport...
What you're saying is like saying "many who like this very US specific food are not from the US, so that means that food is common outside the US."
How do you not see the idiocy of that?
It's still a mainly US specific sport, the fact that many who play it (in the US) aren't from the US doesn't change that fact at all.
My point is that the best in the world at those two sports compete in the top US professional leagues, and that anyone in the world is welcome to participate if they have the skill level. Nothing you've said addresses my point, and you're arguing against something I've never said or implied.
To your point, though, both baseball and basketball are quite popular in the countries of origin of these international players. Baseball is huge in Japan, Korea, and much of Latin America. Basketball is huge in much of Europe, and the Euro League is competitive, as are the national leagues in Spain, Italy, and France. But the young stars from those leagues (and Turkey, Australia, and China) have been drafted into the NBA after having already proven themselves in professional competitive play. So not only are you arguing against something I never said, you just showed up, uninvited, to be wrong about it.
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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
Except that one time when you win on a technicality in a tie by "who got the most points a specific way"
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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.
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
True, but not at the same rate as American football.
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The Australian version is: Invent new sport. No one else in the world is insane enough to play it.
Idk the Irish do a decent job of it and quite often hand us our arses at it as well
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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
You’ve given the basis for ‘soccer’, which is an abbreviation for association football or footballer as I understand.
In Australia we play footy, and we also play a different game called rugby
There’s two rugby codes and I point it out because we always have to clarify with Victorians which one they mean
In Adelaide you could be playing footy (AFL), footy (A League - Soccer) or footy (NRL - Rugby League - least popular since the NRL shafted the Rams like 30 years ago)
Which ones is hackysack?
The word Soccer comes from England, too. It's a Britishized version of "association football" with a typical R appended.
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