ITT: Representatives from the countries in green explain why their country never developed its own unique or historic sporting culture and just copied what the UK developed with soccer without any culture.
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Well you could easily work out an answer yourself based on that map, since handegg is just rugby on easy mode.
>>150913203Why is Australian Football and Cricket the same shade of red?Also seeing as this feels like the sort of post that’ll attract a lot of postsWhy is France so bad at sport relative to their population? Like what sports do actual French people play? They seem weirdly bad at any team sport that isn’t full of Africans and surely they can’t all be into tennis and cycling?
ITT: OP is still a mentally ill latinx
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>>150913203Most of those sports are either British or derived from British
>>150913203Which country has horse racing? I don't see it.And what the hell are Filipinos doing playing basketball? Are the nets 4 feet high?
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The British invented the best sport in the world and there is no need to look anywhere else.
Televisa pushing soccer ahead of baseball
Why mess with perfection? Indoor football/futsal is the only innovation to football that I would say is just as fun or funner. To play at least, not to watch.
>>150913203Cricket, rugby and table tennis are British.>>150919006It's popular in the UK and to an extent in France, Japan and US
>>150913203>UAE>Cricketque?
>>150913203We have a thing called fronton, It's good
>>150913203chess is believed to have originated from india or atleast a form of proto chess with slightly different rules
>>150913203india plays australian rules football?
>>150940687god you insecure pajeets are so cringe.
>>150913203This map is like 15 years old I think some countries may have changed
>>150940687Chess came from Atlantis, actually.
>>150913203it's called football, you fat retard
>>150913203I believe the development of many modern sports was heavily influenced by a combination of factors in the UK and North America.The **United Kingdom**, as an island nation, was geographically shielded from the devastating, large-scale wars that ravaged mainland Europe. This stability, along with its status as the birthplace of the **Industrial Revolution**, gave it a crucial head start. People had the leisure time and resources to develop and codify games, many of which became the predecessors of modern sports.Similarly, the **United States** also benefited from its geographical isolation from European conflicts. While it wasn't wealthy from its inception, it experienced rapid economic growth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This prosperity and being spared from the kind of devastating, all-encompassing **industrial warfare** that was transforming conflict in Europe, created the perfect conditions for the development of new sports like **gridiron football** and **basketball** on its own land. People had both the time and wealth needed to participate in and popularize them.In contrast, many countries in mainland Europe were still recovering from or dealing with conflicts within their own borders. These circumstances prevented the widespread development of organized sports in the same way, as the focus was often on rebuilding and survival rather than on leisure and recreation.
>>150926649Cricket is dubious, it could be French, Flemish, or Irish. Whatever its origins it definitely was propagated by the British Empire
>>150915103>Why is Australian Football and Cricket the same shade of red?They aren't.
>>150942046I just checked and can confirm you are correct they are definitely not the same red
>>150913203real recognises real
>>150921257so the NFL argued this in court ---- that does not say ANYTHING about the MLB, NBA, or the NHL.Making that leap is just ridiculous.
>>150913203theres a difference in creating something and being part of the history in it, like with football
>>150923113>The British inventedEverything
>>150915103We didIt's why we win everything ski related. It's why we're the all-time most winning nation at the winter olympics.It's just that Football is accessible year round and requires only a ball and some makeshift goalposts
>>150913203We love basketball so much its unreal bros
>>150913203>without any cultureour (yes >our) football culture is copied by quite literally everyone in the world.
>>150951386Wtf this was meant for >>150913203Holy fuck
>>150913203based bhutan
>>150913203Football exists since ancient times
>>150941534A much simpler explanation is that angloids are genetically blessed supermen and that Americans, as our beloved children, inherited that.
>>150965700Stonehenge was an early attempt at making goals that didn't require taking your jumper off during the harsh winter months.
>>150921257major LEAGUE soccer, premier LEAGUE, laLIGA, LIGUE 1, bundesLIGAyou might be onto something
>>150915020Idk why people say this rugby is low intensity
>>150921257This was to get around sports betting and advertising laws btwYou would still indeed get your pussy ass wrecked if you went up against a linebacker
>>150944442>>150951267Anglo-Saxons are God's chosen people. This has been proven time and time again
>>150940687>>150940773He's right though (the Jeet)
>>150965942Thanks dad!
>>150915020>since handegg is just rugby on easy mode.Football is more violent. The pads enable the players to play far more aggressively. It's just a slower game with constant stops.Rugby is great though. Much better than fucking soccer. I will never understand how pussy-footy got so popular.
>>150913203I'm more concerned about the countries in orange.What made monkeydunk popular in eastern Europe?
>>150913203we have Pato, it's our national sport
>>150967380>tf>violent = betterPottery.
>>150965942good post
>>150913203France basically invented Tennis and Motor Sports, WTF?
>>150976316>France basically invented TennisLOL
Unironically, why aren't there more codes of football? It was played in a rudimentary form across Europe, not just Britain, since the Middle Ages. How come more countries didn't codify rules and instead just adopted FA rules?
>>150985800They're all shit apart from football. Why invent a mid sport when you're already playing a great one?
>>150985819It's not like we even saw some sort of Italian or French football come about and lose out to English football in popularity before fizzling out. They just straight up adopted the English game. These countries had their own historical football games in calcio or choule but they never became of anything. In Ireland, there's Gaelic football which was codified like 20 years after the FA's. I'm surprised more countries didn't follow suit around this time
>>150985800>>150985819>>150985899my friends, I understand that FA's laws became the popular code all over the world and it is by far the most important, but there's literally a different football code played in each country, what the actual fuck are you talking about?in Argentine alone there's like 5 different codes of football being more popular than the "second" most popular sport (which is motorsport btw).
>>150913203>Japan>wrestlingHuh? I thought it was baseball
Your map is just a map of the most popular spectator sport in each country. Doesn't tell you anything about sport cultures.Watching something doesn't make you special, doing it is. And plenty of countries in soccer color are high achievers in many sports with lots of Olympic medals
>>150985899>It's not like we even saw some sort of Italian or French football come aboutbecause it didn't exist
>>150919006if everyones 4 feet nobodys 4 feetgames end 2-0
>>150913203We have fully accepted the fact that our sports culture is mostly angloidMy local football stadium even has UK flags as a tribute to its british founders
>>150985970It is, there are two shades of yellow.Also for some reason Australia is colored for cricket instead of Aussie Football, and Britain was erased.
