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Zero999:

--- Quote from: Inverted18650 on January 07, 2018, 11:49:38 pm ---My apologies, not sure why I thought an EE blog with an international user base would be interested in American sports. Silly me. At least no one said “sports are violent and mindless” lol. Though I don’t have any idea what the rest of the internet may be saying, I was watching the game..

Admin please delete this thread.

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Probably had a few beers too? lol


--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 08, 2018, 08:51:52 am ---
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on January 07, 2018, 10:19:13 pm ---Are you referring to actual football or handegg?

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Isn't football, soccer?

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I think the word "football" has been used for many games in the past, but only soccer really caught on worldwide, although rugby (both variants) are quite popular. The US and Australian variants don't seem to be very popular outside of their native ranges.

It does interest me that the US seems to be isolated from the rest of the world, team sports wise. They don't play much soccer, rugby or cricket and their popular sports, such as US football and baseball aren't very popular elsewhere.

rrinker:
 Baseball is quite popular outside of the US. Japan, in particular. And in various Caribbean countries (where many of the big time US players come from). The youth level Little League truly does have a "World Series" as there are often non-US teams competing in the final rounds.

mtdoc:

--- Quote from: Hero999 on January 09, 2018, 11:17:59 am ---
It does interest me that the US seems to be isolated from the rest of the world, team sports wise. They don't play much soccer, rugby or cricket and their popular sports, such as US football and baseball aren't very popular elsewhere.

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Well that's a fairly Anglo-centric view. Cricket and rugby are only popular AFAIK in former British colonies (US excluded).  Not exactly popular world-wide

The truth is that that if you look at youth sports participation in the US - Basketball is number 1 (one of the most popular team sports worldwide) followed by soccer - number 2 and baseball 3.

Baseball is actually very popular across all of the Americas - from Canada through most of South America.

Zero999:

--- Quote from: mtdoc on January 09, 2018, 08:18:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hero999 on January 09, 2018, 11:17:59 am ---
It does interest me that the US seems to be isolated from the rest of the world, team sports wise. They don't play much soccer, rugby or cricket and their popular sports, such as US football and baseball aren't very popular elsewhere.

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Well that's a fairly Anglo-centric view. Cricket and rugby are only popular AFAIK in former British colonies (US excluded).  Not exactly popular world-wide
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Point taken. I suppose it's more of a European-centric view, that none of the US sports seem to be very popular in Europe. You're right, cricket is pretty much ex-empire. I don't know about Rugby.


--- Quote ---The truth is that that if you look at youth sports participation in the US - Basketball is number 1 (one of the most popular team sports worldwide) followed by soccer - number 2 and baseball 3.

Baseball is actually very popular across all of the Americas - from Canada through most of South America.

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It surprises me that soccer is so popular in the US. It seems to be the most popular team sport in the world.

james_s:
They're all Sportsball as far as I'm concerned.

*yawn*

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