Mage said:
Thank you for explaining the origins of the word football I didn't know that.
I didn't feel bad about you correcting me and I am not offended. Just like nobody should be offended if I clear out the misconception that Superbowl is popular around the world.
Pointing out that it is not popular isn't the offensive bit. Inferring that some posters here should pull their head in because American culture may be/is toxic and that they are somehow accountable is. I say this as an Australian observing what transpired.
We are here to build each other up, not tear each other down, and especially not over something as trivial as what is generally recreational viewing.
It's hard to talk about this topic without sounding like being obnoxious.
Why? There is no need to hate. Sports have generally been preselected in regions over a century ago.
Other than soccer, there are at least regional variants, such as
Rugby Union - the sport for soft, rich kids in the main, with it being popular is third world regions like the Welsh valleys, New Zealand and shit hole pacific islands.
Rugby League - the sport derived from above for way below critical thinkers found in the north of england, two eastern states in Australia, some black singlet areas of New Zealand and papua New Guinea
American Football - as discussed in this thread.
Canadian Football, a variant, and less popular than above
Gaelic football - a sport played by knackers with potatoes for brains in Ireland.
Australian football - played and supported by morons in the backwater states of Australia.
Actually I think that most sports have an artificial popularity boosts trough increased media exposure.
I think you'll find those levels aren't artificial, but the real demand levels.
Just look at this forum what are most discussed sports here? Powerlifting, bodybuilding, boxing and martial arts. Endeavors for real men. Something that helps you in your day to day life, helps to attract women, helps to scare criminals and jealous knights, helps in self defense. These sports naturally reveal their primal superiority in a not commercial environment like this.
They are also pretty boring to watch.
What you don't assign as a positive to team sports is that they involve teamwork, which is a less often discussed feature of testosterone.
Guys can sit and watch a sport together, and not say a word to each other, yet still bond over it.
Team work in a sportiong environment, particularly moangst teen males in brilliant in team building. It is why they team sports were codified in the late 19th century, as a substitute to fighting wars and all-male sodomy that was common within the military.
Yet what are the most popular sports for blue pill society? Various team game sports with no direct real world application, be it football, hockey or basketball. Why is it?
Actually it is none.. but if you had to give an answer.. it is soccer.
That's why the term 'soccer mum' came about. Prior to that, men guided, or instructed what sports their sons played, because they understood what elements is introduced to forming a boy into a man.
When mothers by became hegemonic in raising kids, their sport of choice was soccer, because it was soft, weak, reliant of taking dives in penalty boxes to score goals instead of earning them justly... so less than brave, less than honest/
All female traits.
Because these sports are more easy to combine with advertising, because these sports where the team is credited instead of an individual
I think you'll find they have changed to make them suitable for TV ads. They existed for the main part well before TV was invented.
are better for raising patriotism and national pride (or at minor level to raise the reputation of a school or university) .
That sounds like a very u.s centric view to align them to colleges. They aren't really a feature in the rest of the world.
And the most popular competitions are club based, not country based.
Patriotism over Machester United, Arsenal or Real Madrid?
Because it is easier to sell these sports to guys who like to sit in front of TV while drinking beer. Are these sports useful in the world outside of the stadium?
I've probably played around 500 games of rugby, none of them in front of more than 200 people. Sports in big stadiums is the pointy narrow end, not the entirety of the sport.
Only if you become famous or rich trough them. They are more useful for corporations and governments trough.
I've enjoyed my sport playing immensely, I didn't become rich from it.
