most if not all of the sports you play came from better english sports eg
1 (american football) rugby
2 (baseball) cricket
3 (ice hockey) hockey
4 (basketball) netball
5 (soccer) football
6 (golf) golf (scots invented this game so you can have it)
2006-07-21 12:04:09 · 21 answers · asked by drugsandgrapes 1 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
My main problem with your rant revolves around #4. This is taken directly from netball.org:
"In 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts a 30-year-old Canadian immigrant to the USA, James Naismith, was ordered to invent an indoor game for high-spirited young men at the School for Christian Workers (later the YMCA).
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Women's indoor baskeball began exactly two days later when female teachers to the gym were captivated by the game but it wasn't until 1895 that the current game of netball was well and truly shaped."
So netball was taken from basketball. A sport invented in America by a Canadian immigrant.
Add to that the facts that #5 and #6 are the same sports in each country, so to say that the English version is better doesn't make sense. Do Americans play those sports that originated in the Bristish Isles? Yes. But what country doesn't play sports from other countries?
Not to mention baseball did not come from cricket but rather from a different English game called Rounders.
So the only two American sports you were even correct on comparing to the English sports you listed were #1 and #3.
2006-07-21 14:46:21 · answer #1 · answered by Bennie 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why cant the English understand???? your sports are about as fun as trigonometry that's why we let the rest of the world have soccer an hour an a half wasted for a 0-0 tie can you say mind numbing plus we fought a war so we didn't have to listen to British non-sense
2006-07-22 08:07:10 · answer #2 · answered by techsan06 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.....THE EDUCATION OF THE WORLD CONTINUES, ONE MORON AT A TIME.....We didn't take hockey, the NHL expanded into the U.S. on it's own. We invented basketball. Baseball came out of Rounders. The Scot's invented their brand of football and you Brit's renamed it SOCCER. We did however take 13 colonies from you, currently rule the world, and continue to cover for your under-acheiving sore-asses. By the way, why do you insist on butchering a perfectly good language?
2006-07-21 22:32:32 · answer #3 · answered by Awesome Bill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
uhh duh? we are just an extention of your ancestory... by giving kudos to the english for inventing these sports your giving kudos to the forefathers of most of the US.
weve just gone on to make some things more interesting.. we still have Soccer teams but We play Football as well..
We stil got Hockey Cricket and rugby teams .. weve just added more fun to the games like ice )
2006-07-21 22:31:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoopdy doo. Who cares? We rock at all of them anyway. Except soccer lol. America came from English people but none of that **** matters anymore anyway.
2006-07-21 19:07:42 · answer #5 · answered by Mal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
traditionally, sports invented in a country are more popular in that country. Just like fish and chips is popular in England and tacos are popular in Mexico.
2006-07-21 19:10:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn`t the Canadians start hockey?
2006-07-21 20:55:00 · answer #7 · answered by Stogie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you want a cookie? b/c I'm pretty sure America rules the planet. We'll beat any country in anything, we're ridiculous.
2006-07-21 19:13:26 · answer #8 · answered by FoMelt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ballsacs and Baseballs my Friend
2006-07-22 00:27:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ur saying cricket is better than baseball? who the hell wants to watch the same game for 3 days??? not me!!!
2006-07-21 22:42:52 · answer #10 · answered by familyguynnascar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋