If the US side is referring to baseball they lose all the time on the world stage
The Australian version is: Invent new sport. No one else in the world is insane enough to play it.
We have Australian Football leagues in many countries. USA vs Canada is in a couple of weeks in British Columbia.
Personally I would like to participate in the motorcycle chariot race, but then again I’m a Californian Redneck so basically an Aussie alternative.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Gotta have time to talk, drink, take a piss, get a snack, argue about the last play, etc.
It’s a game of strategy and formations, like chess or military drills, instead of just kicking a ball around for 90 minutes.
It does seem fun to be an NFL coach. much less boring, and dangerous.
Yeah I keep forgetting only the games of chess, military drills?? And American football has strategy and formations, my bad.
Football has a ton of strategy and formations. Don’t watch the ball for a half and just look at the backline and the movement in the mid field.
Not disagreeing with you on American football either. I love watching post game tape.
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.
Highschool? Everyone i knew got in in elementary or middle school. Those who tried to start in highschool never even touched the field
Call them both football, even though one is obviously hand egg.
guess who called it soccer first? it wasnt america
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.
Or move to really small country like Luxembourg, Malta, Andora and be a country representative player
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.
I took it as sarcasm.
I think this is about football and American football.
I… Dont think england invented soccer, though
Britain invented football, hockey, ice hockey, cricket, baseball, tennis, golf, rugby, badminton, darts, snooker, netball, table tennis, squash, curling, rowing, hammer throw, shot put, water polo…
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
The word Soccer comes from England, too. It’s a Britishized version of “association football” with a typical R appended.
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!
So it’s all football?
Always has been.
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
Futbol or “mURIca fIRsT rOUnD up ThE mEXiCanS and mOoohAmEDs haNG thE cOMMie cLINtoNs cos pIZzaGaTe I aiNt no FAGGit”
I’m calling you an ambulance.
In the US, that’s a serious threat. I had a friend call an ambulance for their roommate, and that roommate was in debt for at least the next 5 years.
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 💀
Which championship? Which sport? Which country in the UK?
All of them. All of them. All of them.
