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Your country is best at ...
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Thats not a sport
Its' the national pastime!Thats not a sport
American football, since you're basically the only country that plays or cares about it, lol. "World Champions" of the Super Bowl that only features American teams, lol.Perhaps, but what SPORTS are we the best at?
Basketball?
Lol, yeah.... how can we be world champions at something that nobody else in the world does?
It's quite hilarious, but yeah, definitely not world champions
Technically we are though, by default.It's quite hilarious, but yeah, definitely not world champions
I suppose that's true, but you'd really need some countries to try and compete, no other country really does American Football, it's just not really a thingTechnically we are though, by default.
I suppose that's true, but you'd really need some countries to try and compete, no other country really does American Football, it's just not really a thing
I wonder why they don't start up their own leagues.
Most other countries either have their own version of football that they play (Aussie Rules, Gaelic football, etc) or they prefer the "proper" football to the point that American Football just doesn't gain any traction.
Thats probably why! The name! Why would we name our sport football when there was already a football that existed.
There are many types of football, always have been. Britain used to have Rugby Football and Association Football, but eventually Rugby Football was shortened to just Rugby and Association Football to just Football, though it had a brief period of time where it was known as Soccer (Soc, from Association), but most hated the name and it reverted back. A few other countries adopted the name "Soccer" and used football for their alternate version, American Football, Aussie Rules, Gaelic Football, etc.
Soccer fans demolition derby. Prior to and after every match, soccer fans here gather up and go on a demolition spree. They beat each other up, engage in skirmishes with the police, even with the better equipped intervention teams, demolish shops' windows, cars, gas stations, anything. It's an immensely popular sport here which usually results in broken bones, bashed heads, bloodshed, and many, many more wonderful kinds of physical damage.
I don't think. I know.
To give a serious answer to this question... we Brits dominate snooker. But that's because it's only really here (and to a lesser extent, Ireland and the Commonwealth) that it's become a major part of the culture.
It's growing in China and some other Asian countries, but there haven't yet been any World Champions from there.
It's growing in China and some other Asian countries, but there haven't yet been any World Champions from there.
