Colonials ( americans) take credit for a canadian basketball game. why?

Question

Naismith was canadian.
Americans always steal sports me lads
baseball from rounders
hockey from field hockey
football, name from the real football and game from rugby
got anything of ur own?

Answer 1

American Gladiators!

Extreme Dodgeball!

NASCAR!

Beer Pong!

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure that the United States was never a colony of Canada - so lay off the name calling, OK?

Though of Canadian birth, Naismith invented basketball while working in the United States. The sport also owes its origins to many earlier games (for instance, there was a ceremonial game in Mayan culture that shared many characteristics with basketball).

As to the other sports you mention:

- Baseball: hitting a ball with a stick is a sporting concept that goes back thousands of years. Britain can no more claim ownership of the concept than the Romans could.

- Hockey: pretty much everyone acknowledges that this is Canada's sport, not the USA's. We play it, but they're the ones who've mastered it.

- football: See the Baseball comment above - the Brits/Canadians can no more claim ownership of kicking a ball around and trying to get it through a goal than anyone else.

Answer 3

Why did you ask this in baseball. I don't recall most Americans saying we did it first. We give credit where credit is due. We just do it better. Make it bigger. More popular. Even your beloved ice hockey. For the first time in 14 years Canadian team MAY have a chance at the Stanley Cup. What's up with that?

Oh, and excuse me, but all those sports you claim the Americans copied were not originally even Canadian. Woo hoo are you smokin' something?

Oh, and Naismith was born in Canada but he developed the game of basketball while working in Massachusetts for an American school.

Answer 4

So what that Naismith was Canadian?? He invented the game in the states. You're just mad that all the hockey teams are leaving to come here even though we don't even like the sport. Go watch curling since its the only thing Canada is good at!!!!

Answer 5

I'm Canadian, and I don't think Americans are trying to "steal" anything. Naismith was working in the U.S. when he invented the game, and I don't think Americans try to claim anything different.

Why are the Brits so insecure about what Americans do? Seriously, your empire ended a long time ago - let go.

Answer 6

Was Naismith an American citizen when he invented the game? Just a thought.

And while all of those games you mentioned do have ancestry in other sports, they also developed independently and concurrently with the current, modern iterations of those games. They are also played by complete different sets of rules.

Did you know that curling is on TV in Canada more hours in a year than hockey? Yet it was invented in Scotland. You thiefs!

Answer 7

Because the game was invented on American soil (Springfield, MA)

Hockey is a Canadian game, not American

PS-- I believe Mrs. Naismith aided int he invention of volleyball in 1895 if I am correct (top of my head)

Answer 8

Why do canadians all ways feel a need to try to one up the US, and why do they almost always fail?

1 James Naismith was scottish, was born in Canada, but invented the sport in Mass. which makes it a US game.

2 Not everyone believe baseball came from rounders and base.
"In fact, literary mention of "base-ball" pre-date those of rounders"

3 both football and rugby came from Maori game Ki-o-Rahi. Even thou it is football is consider to have come from rugby, and while it may have been influncecd by rugby, it realy wasn't taken from rugby.
Rugby started around the same time period as football. if you read the history of Rugby it started at the rugby school around 1816-1836. the first amercain football game use English Football (i.e., Soccer) Association rules in 1869, but before that in Princeton in 1820 and havard from 1827 played a game that is more like what became football.

4 games like field hockey were played by Egypt 4000 years ago, and Lacrosse was played by Native Americans long before any white man came to N America, but Canada invented Ice Hockey as we know it today, it isn't really a US sport and most of this country doesn't watch it.

So please get your facts straight, and quit trying to one up us, when you don't know what your talking about.

Answer 9

Yeah, we got you dumbazz canadians under our thumbs