How many countries claim football?
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Fuckin sigma. Sumo has so much AURA
But, to be sure, it has great physical impact too
Isn't it more like WWE than Greco Roman Wrestling though?
A sumo wrestler is like a defensive lineman in gridiron football, combined with a judo competitor. Sumotori can shove their opponent down or out, they can hit with an open hand, they can do BJJ-style "no gi" throws, or grab the belt for leverage and/or do judo-style trips and throws. Yeah they're fat but beneath that they are like half muscle. Most matches are over in under 30 seconds, many under 10.
For more info see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8wS_t5Lv8
For English-commented matches see: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/sumo/
That's why we're invading Cuba: to teach them baseball! We might even share our American love of classical cars.
Wasn’t Fidel a big baseball player/fan?
Its a joke because there's a high population of Cubans in the MLB.
All I know about japanese baseball is the number 34-2
Kids, play nice, you can share a national sport, just like everybody else does with footie.
America: No.
Most of the points are scored by kickers these days 😠
still egg
AckSHully an egg has a pointed end and a rounded end. American footballs are prolate spheroids.
prolate spheroid sounds like a good insult
So should rugby be called handegg, too?
manly handegg
There are a lot of very valid criticisms of American football. I love it, sometimes in spite of myself, but I won’t fault anyone who thinks it’s an overly-managed made-for-TV snoozefest with no rhythm whatsoever. For better or worse, though, those helmets and pads do not make it any less of a violent “manly” sport. Far from it: they are the way Americans make ourselves feel better about watching a literal bloodsport with a ball.
The way the game moves and the ruleset reward explosive impacts, and the unlimited substitutions mean players are selected and trained to optimize delivering and enduring that violence instead of, say, actually running for 80 minutes. The result is a dozen hits a game that would make a “biggest hits of the season” compilation video for rugby or Aussie rules. Also chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Hand egg without brain shell.
Vs cushioned hand egg?
That's what happens to colonies. Look at how popular Cricket is in Commonwealth countries.
Most Commonwealth countries, Canada is different because of our close connection with the US.
There's a group of Indians near me who play cricket every weekend so sometimes I'll go by and bother them. "You're playing the game wrong, you know. Have you guys never watched baseball before?" They're always super nice and will spend ages explaining everything about the sport. They have a level of zeal for the sport which cannot be matched by even us hockey fans. Last summer we went down to the Galapagos and our group was mostly Brits and I would wait until late in the evening after they had started drinking and ask if they play soccer over there, and that is just as much fun to me.
We have Rugby and Gaelic Football as our sports from the Commonwealth. We just suck at them because there's only 3 months a year to play it.
ask if they play soccer
I mean, that is where the word came from originally.
are you saying that japan was a US colony in 19th century?
Pretty much was after WWII.
iirc baseball was japans national sport before ww2
Really? I'm anything but an expert in Japanese history but weren't they very anti-western back in the empire's days?
Also not an expert, just talking from what I remember from history class: in the mid 19th century, Japan underwent a period of rapid westernization and industrialization called the Meiji Restoration. This was at least in part a response to western interference in the region, including a pivotal moment when the US forced the country to sign unequal trade deals by showing up with some big naval vessels.
So it was kind of a love-hate relationship. They didn’t like the westerners invading their country, but they also admired them enough that they not only adopted western tech, but also a bunch of social and political customs.