>your preferred sport>something you genuinely, unironically appreciate about a different sport culture
NFLI think the tiered structure and promotion/relegation system of foreign divegrass leagues are very cool.
BaseballI like all the small teams that soccer has in their professional leagues. Not that they will ever accomplish anything major but the fact that they have such a dedicated and loyal following is very cool to me.
divegrassi like how baseball is full of masonic symbolism and in the center there's an allegorie to the sermon on the mount
>>158293291Wholesome thread divegrass I appreciate sports where bitching and moaning at the ref is heavily frowned upon and punished. I guess tennis and rugby are like that. Although I've definitely seen the Williams sisters yelling at refs for years with zero pushback
>the kraut knowshut it down!
footballi appreciate how our volleyball NT is actually good
>>158293291I love football but I prefer how rugby fans are less tribal to the point they are even allowed to sit together and drink beer. Then after the match is over, they all head to the nearest pub and socialise with each other.Can you imagine this in football? You can’t even walk into a club’s affiliated pub while wearing their rival’s shirt least you get stabbed. People who treat club football like a religion are the biggest losers, specially the ones supporting privately owned clubs. Imagine someone feeling very passionate about McDonalds and be willing to punch someone because they prefer Burger King, that’s pretty much Premier League clubs fans because most of their clubs are American corporations
>>158293291(Association) FootballI appreciate how American sports tend to be more segregated. Basketball is for blacks. Hockey is for Whites. Football was better when it was mostly Europeans and South Americans.
>>158293291Sawker Since this thread is basically a Euro-American circlejerk, I think it's cool how big of a deal high school and university sports are in America. We don't a toss here.>>158293340Teams can radically change their fortunes, it just takes either a lot of time and financial prudence or acquisition by a petrostate. The likes of Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford were borderline amateur-level when I was a kid and now they're playing in Europe.
CyclingI think it’s cool how in NFL there are 7 hours of ads during a 30 minute game. I also like how the play breaks up every 8 seconds or so, so the coach can draw up a strategy like he’s a military commander or something. I like that the ownership is a Jewish cabal of billionaires who profit off of gigantic black men and utter goycattle working whites.
FootballOne of the reasons my favourite NFL teams is the New Orleans Saints is that they used to be so terrible that fans would go to games wearing paper bags on their heads so nobody watching on TV would know they were fans of the Saints. That (along with calling them the Ain’ts) is truly top banter.I also like German football’s rules around club ownership. But that’s still football, so maybe I should also respect the similar rules that are in place for the Green Bay Packers.
Oh, and baseball trivia. Baseball autism is the best autism.
>>158293291FootballAlways liked Djokovic
And that Indonesian sport that’s like football tennis. Sepak takraw, maybe? I forget what it’s called but it sounds great.I watched kabbadi once and that was God-tier.Martial arts also have a good philosophy. Kung fu and aikido and things like that are very admirable.Maybe this will be all the thoughts I have had, or maybe I will be back in another couple of minutes with more thoughts I haven’t had yet.
Me again. Vuvuzelas were based. Fuck the haters. Fight me.
I’m a baseball fan.I like buzkashi because the concept of trying to carry a dead goat into a net to praise Allah is something that sounds made up by an early 2000s American trying to shit on durkas but it turns out that’s genuinely their preferred sport
>your preferred sportHurling>something you genuinely, unironically appreciate about a different sport cultureThe international nature of soccer. I would prefer it if every country had a strong international Hurling culture, so that a Hurling All Star team had some international competition.
Bundesliga fanI like how in other leagues you can play for 1st place instead of just 2nd place
This is nice bread.Football (european) and rugby (union)I actually like how the american closed leagues can allow some dramatic changes in a team's history over time and for generational supporters.Take the Chicago White Sox :In a pro/rel system, they might have been relegated as a punishment after the "black sox" scandal. With their slumps in performance, they would surely have gone down a few tiers over time. They were a historically bad team just a few years ago and now they were in contention to make the World Series.It's easy, from a distance, to romanticize the ups and downs of a club and the generations of support but the truth of it is, when a club has gone down two or three levels, that support fizzles. It does not actually happen all that much. My grandfather supported Nîmes Olympique in his youth and it did not really transfer towards his children and grandchildren because the club was going through nothing but mismanagement and declining performance. Not in a "only support your club when it's winning" but moreso in a "lose interest because it's all dull and hopeless" way...The closed leagues make it easier in that way to keep some hope, to always have something to play for. Because even if you are having a terrible momentum, you can pray for a draft hit. If you suck for too long in pro/rel, your team goes down and down and may very well just fold.Counterpoint to all that : the club I support rekindled my interest in football BECAUSE I was there to see them climb back into the first division for the first time in over a decade. (It's not Nîmes because again, the passion didn't transfer through generations, and because I never lived anywhere near the town as my mother moved away from the region)
>>158294732>Imagine someone feeling very passionate about McDonalds and be willing to punch someone because they prefer Burger KingI relate to this, as an American
FootballI envy rugby's mixture of adversity and respect for the opponents and refs, which enables lively games. They don't waste our time moaning about decisions, and the occasional brawl between players is always good banter.
>>158296506I think that’s a problem with most sports outside of football. Only cricket and rugby have a good international scene which attracts a large audience during their world cups. In fact they might the only two sports where a national team completely dwarfs club teams in terms of prestige. You can still a great career if you don’t represent your country in football but that’s career suicide in cricket and rugby
>>158308632I think basketball also has a solid international presence, but it weirdly hinges more on the Olympics than any FIBA event.
>>158293291Football (European) is first for me, even though I like some other sports as well>salary caps are a good idea all in all, though nearly impossible to implement fairly and control in a truly global sport>tailgating seems cool>Americans often have neat marching bands for their sports, I like that and think this could be implemented here>While I find it quite weird in some ways (how much money is being spent on it?), I cannot help but respect the existence of these big college/high school sports programs in general. Seems like good culture there altogether even though it is a strange business not immune to the usual greed>baseball is a sport with tons of unique traditions in general, it seemsAnd to name something else than American sports>China's love for table tennis always reminds me that even "niche" sports can have a really good position in big markets>rugby is a gentlemen's sport, rugby players seem to behave much better than football players, for example when it comes to dealing with the ref. And simulations
>>158293291hockeyi like how in european sports managers and coaches are held accountable to goals they set because they cant get bailed out by a wild card birth into the playoffs. way too many frauds and nepobabbies manage to keep a coaching job in the nhl for decades just by finishing in 16th place.
Poverty ballI admire the helm cams in formula 1
>>158308632Basketball and baseball do as well, it's just localized in the same way rugby and cricket but for different areas. Basketball in particular is growing quickly in some places where it was more or less dormant.
>>158314489"Simulation" just isn't worth it in rugby because>TMO/VAR has been there for longer>with more supstitutions per game and positions where players are expected to play only a half, your coach will just sub you out if he thinks you're hurt>injury protocols happen more often so if you pretend you've been hit badly, you'll just be sent for a concussion protocol and leave your team a man down for a few minutes with possibly no upside>if you start being a little shit like that, there are far more ways for the other team to take your name rough you up while staying well within the rules>the best you can do is give your team a penalty position and create a yellow card for the other team. The former can easily be drawn legally in better ways (position yourself in a way that will cause others to foul during a ruck etc), the latter is pretty difficult to getAll of that is in addition to a culture that does not encourage it.There just isn't the incentive for it because for the most part rugby "setpieces" aren't as game-changing as they are in football and they are easier to get legally.
