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
Kick this sheep’s bladder around or I’ll punch your wives again!
Talkin’ cricket
Oh really? Cricket!? Lol.
Confused?
Nope
More like Spanish and Portuguese former colonies. Since USA, Canada, Australia, India, etc not that great at football ⚽
India is beating UK at cricket.
And Australia was beating them before that.
We beat them so bad, they declared Cricket dead, burned a cricket ball and now we compete for the ashes of that ball.
Good thing i’m taking about cricket then. You know, the one actually played by india, australia, pakistan, west indies, new zealand. Etc
Except that one time when you win on a technicality in a tie by “who got the most points a specific way”
The Australian version is: Invent new sport. No one else in the world is insane enough to play it.
Personally I would like to participate in the motorcycle chariot race, but then again I’m a Californian Redneck so basically an Aussie alternative.
We have Australian Football leagues in many countries. USA vs Canada is in a couple of weeks in British Columbia.
Idk the Irish do a decent job of it and quite often hand us our arses at it as well
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.
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.
It does seem fun to be an NFL coach. much less boring, and dangerous.
Highschool? Everyone i knew got in in elementary or middle school. Those who tried to start in highschool never even touched the field
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.
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.
It’s football all the way down…
Remember when Forest Gump played football in the Olympics?
So we all agree that England sucks at sports names.
You’ve given the basis for ‘soccer’, which is an abbreviation for association football or footballer as I understand.
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
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
Which championship? Which sport? Which country in the UK?
Or move to really small country like Luxembourg, Malta, Andora and be a country representative player
