>>220344605
what's the difference between american football and rugby?

Divegrass has clearly been a disaster for
the world

>>220344654
Gear I think

>>220344605
Tf is "gaelic football"?

>>220344654
In American football you can kick the ball in some cases
It's weird sport because it started as rip off of football before becoming rip off of rugby

Football
Baseball
Basketball
Ice hockey

>>220345426
Is there any regional or racial difference between likings for these sports?

>>220344605
Its weird how britian and America had a "Phase" of a bat sport, then the countries they conquered took it up, they moved on, but the colonies kept it.

Soccer, and tennis
No idea about the rest

>>220344654
In our version, the players can pass the ball forward, not just sideways. There are other differences too.

>>220346106
>football
Number 1 sport by far but it's especially popular in the Southeast and Midwest.
>baseball
Historically it was most popular in certain cities in the North and Midwest, but nowadays it's probably bigger in the southern states (Southwest + Southeast) because it's easier to play year-round in the warmer climates.
>basketball
African-Americans and zoomers.
>hockey
White people from the Northeast and Minnesota.

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Why is all of Europe just #1: football, #2: random hobby sport played by a handful of amateurs.
Why did you guys never properly develop your own sports, and instead chose to dedicate your national pride around one of the worst Anglo ones?

>>220344605
1) football
2) handball
3) rowing
4) whatever who cares

>>220346322
Handball and numerous forms are skiing were invented by Europeans. And no they aren't made of amateurs
>>220346182
Interesting

What are some similarities between American football and football football?

If you know it how did African Americans got into basketball? It started as university sport played in YMCAs

>>220346106
No, in the US sports are seasonal.
>spring
Basketball
>Summer
Baseball
>Fall and parts of winter
Football

I think one of the key reasons soccer fails to catch on is it cannot find a place within this seasonal system. If there was a "time for soccer", let's say winter, then it'd be accepted as something you watch during that period of time.

>handball
>skiing
>And no they aren't made of amateurs
lmaoing out loud rn

1)hockey
2) probably basketball
3-,5) baseball, American football as well as our version of it and soccer
6-8) curling, athletics, golf
9-10) tennis and probably something like swimming

>>220346421
>If you know it how did African Americans got into basketball? It started as university sport played in YMCAs
Much like soccer, it doesn't require much equipment (just a ball and a hoop) and it can be scaled down (1v1, 2v2, etc), so it's good for poor people who don't have the funds to join a club. Also it can be played in a very small area (unlike soccer and also unlike the other major sports in the US), which is good for African-Americans because most of them live in heavily urbanized areas.

Soccer is actually the most popular sport here

>>220346770
Probably in terms of participation but not actually people giving a shit

>>220344605
Bhvtan... SOVL.

>>220344605
>Soccer
>Jiu jitsu
>Muay Thai
>Boxe
>Volley (mostly by women)

>>220346182
Basketball is black
Baseball is latino/asian
Hockey is white

>>220346421
Both of these sports descend from games that students at rich British public schools used to play. The rules were wildly different at each one but they were all called football. In the mid-1800s graduates from different schools who met up at university wanted to start playing each other but realized they didn't have a unified ruleset so they started working on putting one together. In the end, they ended up with two: One for the Football Association (how we get 'soccer' and what 'afc' stands for) and another for rugby. Both were still called football, which led to a lot of confusion until one or the other eventually won out in local popularity and got to keep the name (FA rules won out in the UK, descendants of the rugby rules in literally every other English-speaking country)

>>220344654
In the 1860s, American universities, which had their own football traditions more related to the association code, started organizing matches against each other. In the 1870s, Harvard played Canadian university McGill under a code closer to Rugby, decided that shit was way better, and switched over. Everyone else followed except Yale, who held out because they hate Harvard.

One of Yale's players, Walter Camp, criticized the game for the unpleasant nature of scrums/rucks/mauls and the fact that one team could just run into the other one over and over again without giving up the ball and so proposed that a team get a limited number of chances ('downs') to advance the ball a certain distance before having to give it to the other team, with a chance ending and play stopping once a runner was tackled to the ground before the next chance would begin with a modified scrum that the possessing team would win by default. Eventually a forward pass was added and a bunch of other shit that makes it an almost completely different game but with similar terminology.

>>220348638
>Baseball is latino/asian
That's true insofar as it's huge in the Hispanic Caribbean (including Venezuela) and in Japan/Korea/Taiwan, and players from those countries play in MLB. However, it isn't necessarily huge among US-born Hispanics and Asians. The large majority of US-born MLB players are white.

>>220348701
This is incredible
May be why university teams are still relevant iyc

>>220344605
For 2.5 months over summer the cricket is on where we play exactly 5 test mathes against other countries and a short formst league
Then the rest of the year the southern states play afl and the northern states play rugby league
Posh people play rugby union (which is what everyone else plays) in the north but its dead as fuck
Posh people play tennis in the south

And we tune into the olympics for gold medals. In any international sport we accept nothing but domination

>>220345054
And how tf is Mongolia's favorite sport Gaelic Football?

>>220349130
That's wrestling if you look it closely. This is why is many Mongolians in sumo

Its Ice Hockey and Basketball
Soccer here is kind of like how it is in America where kids (mostly minorities) play it when young and then wean off it. There has been a push by libtards to make us more notable and not suck complete ass, I hope this fails.

Other sports include (Beach) Volleyball, Floorball and Women's tennis.
We also care about Bobsled, Skeleton and Lugw more than average, but with Dukurs gone the interest waning.

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According to study last year:
1. Icehockey
2. Athletics
3. Skiing
4. Football
5. Biathlon
Based on gender it's much the same except for men #5 is Rally (wrc) and for women it is figure skating.
Honourable mention to Pesäpallo (Finnish baseball), Basketball, Horse harness racing, and folk racing/Jokkis (cars)

>>220345086
Rugby has far more kicking than American football

football and wife beating

>>220353977
are there competitions in wife beating?
>>220353322
>>220351856
must to be great to live in country which doesn't rely on the football despite being shit at it we had millions thrown at football stadiums which didn't provide many talents to replace Lewandowski

>>220344605
>manlet superpower
>basketball
What?

>>220344605
1) football
2) tennis and formula 1
3) basket and motogp
4) volleyball, track and field

football
basketball
ehhhh judo? tennis? sailing? surfing?

>>220348701
Interesting. Thank you for explanation
>>220353672
I thought it's mostly throwing the ball

>>220354023
Not only do we not rely on socca, we don't care about it at all.
I can't explain to you why, because as you said sucking at the sport is rarely an excuse.
One of our teams got into some international tournament so in 2024/2025 there were some games held here. Foreign fans came over and acted like niggas. Libtards on twitter went
>uhm... first time seeing football fans? Its dey culcha
very concerning

>>220354140
>I thought it's mostly throwing the ball
Of course, but there are more scenarios in which to kick the ball and it is a much more important part of the game than in American football

>>220348701
>even gaelic football is descended from rugby
Kek

>>220344605
Football, handball, basketball and water polo. Basketball and alpine skiing are still popular despite Croatia currently sucking at them.

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>all those non americans calling it soccer
what a bunch of american ass kissers

>>220355093
Soccer isn't an American term
Engloiders have only started seething about it recently because they have been culturally degenerated by contintals

>>220348532
>>Soccer
off yourself

>>220346322
People practice those sports that either needs barely sny equipment, or are favoured by the country's orography.

>>220344654
In rugby you can only pass the egg sideways and backawards, which forces the team to play as a unit.

In handegg you can throw the egg on ever direction, so you only need the egg thrower and some other dude that will run to the finish line.
The rest of the team are there just to fighting and shit

>>220344654
football is like rugby but rugby is played by men.

>>220346322
All other sports run at the same time as football. From september until may.
People just pick to watch what they enjoy the most.
It isn't like USA or Australia, where the sports run on diferent times of the year

>>220353977
Damn, you're spiritually british

>>220354408
Its funny because here hardcore football fans are sterotyped to being right wing sometimes even straight up fascist and criminal. I wish we have more state support for sports we are really good at like volleyball, handball and tennis except of dumb football

I’d say
Football
Rugby
Tennis
F-1
Boxing

>>220355093
Not my sport