Take American football as compared to rugby. or pool to snooker. or baseball to cricket.\nAmericans always seem to have their own versions of games
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That way we can say that it's more complicated and that we are origional, when in all actuality, it's nearly the same game, if not easier. In cases such as Football, it's just so that we don't have to keep moving in between plays. It's the lazy way out.
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Rugby, American football is for girls: all that padding and stuff! ;-)\n\nReal men play Rugby
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So tired of this question... \n\nWhy is the rest of the world so insecure because Americans have a game that is more fun than soccer and decided to call it football.  I'm thinking of starting a petition to change the official name of the American sport from football to:\n"THE GREATEST GAME IN THE WORLD AND TONS BETTER THAN DUMB STUPID SOCCER BALL"  \nWe'll still call it football for short though and insist that persons from Europe must call it by it's formal name.  Anyone want to sign up?  \n\nIf you are really interested in how American football got it's name, see the link below.  Everything you ever wanted to know.
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We Americans tend to think the universe orbits around us and everyone should adjust to our terms.  I think it comes from not being able to mix with other cultures and languages.\n\nApologies all around are given.\n\nI will send an opinion piece to our local newspaper to start a grassroots campaign to rename the sport as  Tackleball.
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All of them are American but my favorite is Baseball. Anyone can learn the rules and play. With the others it is too expensive for most to participate.
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There is even a US International team - they played in the ICC  competition that was staged in the UK two summers ago. Look on the ICC site - they would be able to provide links to associate member sites, and I'm sure the US is one of these.
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Baseball. Look at all of the foreign players that are entering the majors. Worldwide appeal is rapidly growing. And farm systems add to the excitement of building a team as well.
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I believe that it is the nature of America.  We like movies with explosions and quick action.  We love sports that have a lot of scoring like basketball.  Soccer is boring to us, we don’t appreciate 0-0 ties.  Also, our athletes here tend to be better suited for stop and go sports.  Like sprinting rather than marathon running, football and baseball, where the action stops constantly and we can have commercials.  Having said that, I could see soccer becoming bigger, as young kids here are playing it more and more so we’ll see.  Plus the last world cup brought together a great deal of people in America b/c we actually won something for once.
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Australian Rules Football.\nNo it isn't Rugby.\nNo it isn't Soccer.\nNo it isn't Gridiron.\nImagine all threee being played at once by crack addicts? Thats it!!!!
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Absolutely agree that it should be "Football",\n'cause that's the original name, and that's what the rest of\nthe world use, and it's really played with foot/feet.\n\nThe American Football should be called something like\n"tackle-ball" or "American Rugby" instead, 'cause they really\ndo not play it with feet much -- the main action is not\nkicking but passing & tackling (not using feet, but using arms\nand body, ...and body armours)...
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In Pakistan,India,Sri Lanka & Bangladesh there are no sporting alternatives that ordinary people can relate to.These countries have not excelled in the more exciting ball games such as soccer & tennis thanks to lack of infrastructure & governmental support.Yet cricketers continue to emerge from complete obscurity to superstardom.Almost every boy grows up playing cricket.The extreme behaviour pattern of people in these countries also contributes to the craze.
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Soccer!! All you do is run run run. Football you stop way to much. The average play is around 6 seconds. Basketball is pretty good unless you warm the bench. Baseball you don't move around to much. Volleyball not to much movement. Tennis you do go back and forth but thats not constant and you never get a huge take off somewhere. Its limited. \n\nSo Soccer then Basketball!!!
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Shahz you have no idea what you're talking about. Soccer is currently the global sport. Basketball and Rugby(yes Rugby) aren't far behind. As for the top American sport: Football.
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Well, I feel that the reason that baseball and football are much more popular in the US is because they are both games that orginated in the US. Soccer, for instance, orgininated in European countries, and there in those countries, soccer is very popular. Sports that orginate stay the most popular in their country. Also, people sometimes dont enjoy sitting for 45 minutes straight, knowing that the second that they get up to go pee, they miss the only play of the game. And my third point is that there is much more action in both Baseball and Football than there is in soccer.
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American Football has a similar concept to Rugby but the two are still played and ruled very differently.\nCanadian Football is very similar to American Football.\nAustralian Football is rugby (Australian Rules Football)\nThen of course there is association football, or soccer.
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Maybe the Americans can have there own Olympics because they seem to only want to play sports that are played by such a small amount of countries. Im sorry your dream is gone for the moment but lets try and even up the playing field and play something thats played at a competitive level in the other 90% of the non americanized parts of the world.
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Try SetantaSports if ur living in Ireland.