06-14-2010, 04:10 PM
Moristans Wrote:First of all, Baseball and Basketball have become international sports, for damn good reason. There is something in those games for everybody.
Baseball and Basketball are indeed popular in places and have become somewhat "international sports", but to compare them to soccer as an international sport is silly. They have taken hold in niche markets. Most of the countries that are good in basketball internationally really have very little national interest in the sport, they just happen to have thrown together good fundamentals (especially in basketball where other countries teams play as teams and we field a court of prima donnas). Baseball is popular primarily in Latin America and Japan largely because of our development of those markets as recruiting leagues, but I wouldn't exactly call it an international sport.
Quote:Has anybody ever heard a non-American Football fan (*cough"Europeans*cough*) talk about American Football and the level of ignorance they show for the game and the guys who play it?
Most of my Euro friends who are actual football fans follow the game with far more knowledge than your average idiot at a bar who watches football. The ones here who actually have taste and acknowledge that college football is the greatest thing ever follow it enough to be very well versed in the intricacies of the game to the point where they can play me in NCAA on PS3 and actually know what defensive plays to call in what situations, something 98% of Americans I played the game with in college didn't understand the game enough to do.