Americans don't care about a sport unless they are best at it

[stosstruppe]

A lot of the indifference is also due to these sports not being part of the nation's physical exercise curriculum at high school.

If we had American football at school I would have taken it up along side rugby as well because stupid UK teenage girls watch US high school type movies & want to emulate all that bollocks, what with the cheer leading, social order, jock's high school football team etc.

Uh, slight digression there, but yea. Sports not represented at grass roots in other nations (not that anything could compete with soccer in Glasgow anyway).

 

[jd_uk]

read my post again. We care what is marketed to us. Football isn't marketed to use(very well at least) and so we don't care. Same with rugby, cricket ect. If it was successfully marketed then we would care and we would be the best, that is what money does.

they brought beckham over for marketing reasons, if they continue then they will all be overhere and we will be the best.

I'm just saying it is the marketing the makes us care, the performance comes with the money. Have you ever looked closely at how well the NFL markets it product? That creates care and top performers.

not so sure about that...it would take a long, long time for America to even compete in any of the main three sports i mentioned. Money only goes so far and even then the economy of other countries will in future overtake America...in just the first year of 20/20 cricket in India some players were being paid the equivalent of £100,000 per week...that will only grow rapidly.

 

[chris302001]

not so sure about that...it would take a long, long time for America to even compete in any of the main three sports i mentioned. Money only goes so far and even then the economy of other countries will in future overtake America...in just the first year of 20/20 cricket in India some players were being paid the equivalent of £100,000 per week...that will only grow rapidly.

Yeah........but the sport is still called cricket.....I'm not sure we're ready to turn in our man cards for wannabe game of baseball.

 

[jd_uk]

and what other "sports" don't the americans care about? all those other sports mentioned in this thread are ridiculous gay.

lol. Good argument.

also the rest of the world doesn't care about football while its america's biggest sport so you can say the same exact thing (the rest of the world doesn't watch sports they are not the best in) for that as well.

lol, all of the most played and followed sports in the world have been ignored by America and instead you guys invented your own and only play it amongst yourselves. No other country is like this. I don't think any other country could cope with the fast food adverts every few minutes.

 

[jd_uk]

A lot of the indifference is also due to these sports not being part of the nation's physical exercise curriculum at high school.

If we had American football at school I would have taken it up along side rugby as well because stupid UK teenage girls watch US high school type movies & want to emulate all that bollocks, what with the cheer leading, social order, jock's high school football team etc.

Uh, slight digression there, but yea. Sports not represented at grass roots in other nations (not that anything could compete with soccer in Glasgow anyway).

True, but why has America not bothered to introduce any of the worlds most popular sports into schools? Surely international competition is important?

Oh...i forgot boxing. So we've got golf and boxing.

 

[jd_uk]

Yeah........but the sport is still called cricket.....I'm not sure we're ready to turn in our man cards for wannabe game of baseball.

Um baseball was adapted from cricket for Americans because they wanted to be good at their own sport. Cricket is hundreds of years old. Americans would love 20/20 cricket if they were good at it....in fact i think an American billionaire called Alan Stanford is putting money into it and has said it could be the biggest sport in the world in future. Still i prefer the traditional stuff because there's more skill and i have a good attention span.

 

[stosstruppe]

True, but why has America not bothered to introduce any of the worlds most popular sports into schools? Surely international competition is important?

Oh...i forgot boxing. So we've got golf and boxing.

No idea how the US high school PE curriculum is set up so couldn't really comment. I think it's a mind set thing though similar to what Megalomaniac described; any athlete in the US collegiate system with a physique suitable for contact sports is going to pick NFL over rugby purely for the money they can potentially earn, publicity, marketing etc.

There must be literally thousands of quality athletes in US colleges that would be suitable for rugby union, but team sport athletes today are motivated by money.

Money is a bigger driving force in US athletes than UK / European counterparts. 6 figure sums for our soccer players are peanuts compared to their star athletes.

 

[milo hobgoblin]

We care less about the OPs post.

 

[chris302001]

Um baseball was adapted from cricket for Americans because they wanted to be good at their own sport. Cricket is hundreds of years old. Americans would love 20/20 cricket if they were good at it....in fact i think an American billionaire called Alan Stanford is putting money into it and has said it could be the biggest sport in the world in future. Still i prefer the traditional stuff because there's more skill and i have a good attention span.

yeah but......its like if football was called grasshopper..........just doesnt really work

 

[pdaddyII]

Not sure about that..no question of the power involved in American football but it's so stop/start as to be hard to watch. Rugby is constant. The guys are fitter and the hits can be bigger without padding. Fighting is commonplace amongst scrums, rucks and mauls and the skill levels are surely greater.

jebus, do i have to spoon feed you knobs?

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