Seriously: "World Championship"? Wtf?

[Jackeens]

We don't play American football in, eh, Ireland.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Get over your manufactured poutrage, whiner.

[Jackeens]

4. Gulp.

[Lorien]

66. Don't worry; it's not you, it's him

he's made an entire career here of losing friends and alienating people.

[Number23]

75. Think that was supposed to be a friendly attempt at sarcasm.

Don't know how successful it was, though... :)

[asphalt.jungle]

2. yeah i always smile

it's more funny than anything. no one really believes the nfl champ is the world champ when the world doesn't really give a crap. the only american sport that's played across the world is basketball.

[annabanana]

3. nobody does.. That's why this is "world championship" and the

"world series" isn't.. (when they get the Latin American and Asian teams in there.. it'll be good.

But I don't think American football is played anywhere else...

[geomon666]

10. American Football is played all over the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leagues_of_American_and_Canadian_football#List_of_current_American_football_minor_and_semi_professional_leagues_around_the_world

[snowsman]

43. The fact that it isn't played anywhere else doesn't make America the world

Even if a new sport surfaced tomorrow and the finals took place next month in only one country, I would disagree in calling it "world" series or championship.

[jumptheshadow]

47. The "World" Series...

is an old name that comes from the days when the New York World newspaper used to host the baseball event.

[Fabio]

5. So why are you on DU?

Kind find your own progressive sight in Ireland?

[Jackeens]

9. Sweet Jesus.......you sound like a Freeper!

[liberalmuse]

13. Hey, lay off Jackeens.

She's DU's dealer in premium Obama goods. I mean, if you aren't joking, you need to lighten up there. A lot.

[Jackeens]

15. liberalmuse, I want your babies. (If you're a girl I want to adopt your spare puppies).

[NYC_SKP]

29. Hey, fabio...

lighten up.

[Posteritatis]

32. Aren't we a xenophobic little jackass today? (nt)

[Fabio]

54. nothing xenophobic about what i said

poster implies that foreign nationals arent allowed to play in the league. but thanks for the name calling.

[Jackeens]

59. What?!

Where did I imply that foreign nationals aren't allowed to play in the league?!?! I didn't! You made that up to justify a narky response to what was intended to be a light-hearted post (seriously!) ribbing the description of the SuperBowl as the 'World Championship' when it's actually just the American Championship for, eh, American football.

Crazy stuff!

[Forkboy]

63. The poster implied nothing of the sort.

Good job, Rush.

[akbacchus_BC]

65. My goodness!!! Jackeens never implied anything of the sort. Do

you work at Faux Noise?

[Forkboy]

62. WOW....dick much?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

71. Ever since he got hit in the face by that bird he hasn't been the same. nt

[slampoet]

6. Baseball isn't a World Series, cause we'd get our ass kicked by Cuba and the Dominican Republic

[Occam Bandage]

61. Nah. Most of the good players are already here. nt

[geomon666]

7. Ahem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_American_Football_League

[Jackeens]

14. Well.................okay. Although....

...that league is probably just made up of American Embassy staff who need to fill their time since Irish folk no longer needed visas to visit America. So it doesn't really count.

[geomon666]

16. It counts.

And you know what, it's probably better than football played here. Imagine Hines Ward trying play with a kilt on. And I f'd up because it's the Scottish that wear kilts, not the Irish. I'm going to go to bed.

[Jackeens]

20. If Hines lifted his kilt....

...sorry, I'm being smutty. (But what kind of haggis are we talking here?)

[fishwax]

8. That's why they're world champions--if whoever wins the Liam McCarthy Cup wants to call themselves

world hurling champions, for instance, who in the U.S. could argue ;)

[Jackeens]

11. fishwax, you're a legend!! Is that the first time Liam McCarthy has got a DU shout-out?!

[fishwax]

25. probably the first -- hopefully it won't be the last

:woohoo:

:hi:

[Gol]

12. National championship is the proper statement.

[Harry Monroe]

17. I've always thought that arrogant...

...the Steelers have won a league championship of American football. That's all. This "World Championship" crap is pure arrogance and hubris. There is also a Canadian Football League. Why not have the Steelers play their Grey Cup champion?? Also "World Series"?? WTF?? There are other baseball leagues in Japan, Korea and Central America. Why not get together and decide once and for all a true world baseball championship.

Soccer's World Cup is probably the only sport that holds a true "World Championship".

[Captain Hilts]

24. I prefer Champions League. But the World Cup is the only fair int'l competition. nt

[Elwood P Dowd]

41. The Steelers would destroy the Canadian League champion.

The World Series is a joke? Anybody that says that is an idiot. Major League baseball teams have players from all over the world. It is by far the best baseball league in the world. Why do you think the best players from Japan, South America, Asia, and other parts of the world come to the US to play in that league?

[snowsman]

44. That's a bad excuse, since it was called World Series even before foreigners came

The great Latin and Japanese players were not present before the 1960's, and it was called World Series anyway.

[SwampG8r]

57. originally sponsored by the new york world

world series is like wrigley field
its an early corporate tie in that made the language
like jello

[Harry Monroe]

55. And Cuba's national put a shellacking on the Baltimore Orioles when??

Just a few years ago. Japan and Cuba have some excellent talent on a par with Americans. I did not say the World Series was a joke, but the name was since it is simply a US/Canadian baseball championship between two competing leagues. The provincialism of some Americans is simply astounding!!

[JohnnyBoots]

51. Don't forget about the Rugby World Cup.

[alexandria]

18. Being from Dublin, you would not understand.NT

[Jackeens]

21. Exactly! That's my point!

[Harry Monroe]

23. I'm not from Dublin and I still don't understand the arrogance!!

of calling oneselves "World Champions" when all they've done is win a league championship of American Football. BTW, wouldn't a sport played with the foot be properly called "football"?? We are the only country on earth to call it something else aka "soccer" a corruption of "Association Football". The only time American Football is played with the foot is during kickoffs, punts or field goals.

[Occam Bandage]

73. Well, the two sports (and rugby, and Australian Rules Football) all come from the same root sport.

It's not surprising that Australia, America, and Great Britain would each keep the name "football" for the particular strains that grew to prominence in each country.

[Condem]

19. MVP, Jackeens.

Don't know if you have it in the Old Sod. Tonight, Bruce Springsteen.

[Jackeens]

22. I'm with ya Condem, Bruce was, as usual, invaluable!

[Condem]

26. Have you seen him, Jackeens?

[salguine]

27. Oi, mucker! Wot's the craic?

[jberryhill]

28. Then you lose by default

[NYC_SKP]

30. Certain sports fans have a tin ear for humor...or are "touchy"...

or are spoiled sports (big time).

A couple of the responses to this thread prove that.

Screw em!!!

:fistbump:

[Drunken Irishman]

34. Do you see the irony in your post?

Calling people who don't mind it being World Champions touchy in a thread bitching about something so trivial?

Ironic, eh? :D

I honestly don't care what they call it. Word Champions, National Champions, Global Champions, Universal Champions, whatever...it's no big deal.

[NYC_SKP]

35. Yes, I did!

Though I had to re-read it and a few of the responses before hitting "post". :9

I don't think Jackeens was nearly as serious as the one who told her to go find her own progressive blog somewhere else.

That was uncalled for. :grr:

:thumbsup:

[Drunken Irishman]

36. I agree with that.

Now go get your own damn blog somewhere else, ok?

;)

[SwampG8r]

58. you should find

a blog more suited to you then elitist!

[On the Road]

31. I Wouldn't Complain

if the world championship of Australian Rules Football went to Sydney or Canberra.

[Clio the Leo]

33. I welcome anyone around the world who wants to challenge the Steelers...

..... to come over here and try. :)

For that matters, I challenge any other team from around the globe to come over here and beat the Lions.

One of my biggest Steeler fan friends ........ is Canadian. Crazy aint it?

[dbmk]

72. Will prob. be a while

before I could scrounge up the cash to field a team to beat them. :)

But can you tell me who got relegated this year from the NFL?
They might be a good to start out against.

Of course, if would have to be on US soil. I completely understand if the US players would not want to be caught in a European doping check.

[shugah]

37. well, as far as i know

no team in ireland, or anywhere else in the world beat the Steelers, so world championship works for me!

yay Steelers!

note: this post is intended to be light-hearted and is not intended to be construed either seriously (except insofar as it is true ;-) ) or as criticism of the OP. :hi:

[snowsman]

45. And James "Buster" Douglas wasn't going to beat Mike Tyson

Why wasn't the belt just handed to Mike Tyson without a fight?

[shugah]

50. i don't know. why?

:shrug:

[sampsonblk]

38. If you did, we'd whip you, hence the title - nt

[Unsane]

39. So much stupid whining on this forum.

[Lorien]

67. When did asking a question start to equal "whining"?

I think that there are far too many over the top personal attacks over the smallest statements here, personally.

[smalll]

40. I'm not a fan. Find the American game to be obnoxioiusly baroque and slow-paced. But yet and still-

I have to ask you, seriously, without any hint of irony at all:

Why Do You Hate America?

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[JeffR]

42. Problem is your sporting events aren't designed to accomodate

millions of dollars worth of ridiculous, overhyped adverts. Pick up on the crass commercial angle a bit. Actually a lot. A whole lot.

Put a team together, for that matter. They couldn't ever be more consistently disappointing than my home town Dolphins. Sky's the limit.

[mwooldri]

80. Association Football may not be best for this, but Cricket sure is.

I mean, the Indian Premier League only started this year and they got a shedload of money... started off with $1Bn for domestic TV rights alone let alone other corporate deals (Citigroup - your tax bailout dollars at work). The teams, the commercialization - so... American - in India, playing an English sport.

The 20twenty style of cricket can really get commercial, if wanted to.

Heck, even Test cricket (the kind that goes on for days) has plenty of opportunities for commercial broadcasters to interrupt with commercials. If you watch Test cricket on like the BBC, most of the time you're watching the bowler polish the ball, or the batter getting prepared...

[WinkyDink]

46. Took you a few decades to get outraged. Now, on to the World Series!

[Marrah_G]

48. ~giggle~

[Marrah_G]

49. You should call congress.....Right Fucking Now !!!!!!

[LanternWaste]

52. Get back to us when the Dublin team...

Get back to us when the Dublin team takes on either the AFC or the NFC and lives to tell about it...

:evilgrin:

[JVS]

53. WLAF sucked and even they called their championship game the World Bowl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bowl

[Dr. Strange]

56. There hasn't been any quality football played since the days of the USFL.

Am I right? Am I right?

[Occam Bandage]

60. And they call that big soccer game the "World" Cup? Antarctica doesn't have a team!

And neither do ANY of the oceans. Should be the "Some Inhabited Parts of the World's Land Mass Cup."

[Franks Wild Years]

64. Antarctica does have team(s)

Given that it's a continent with various areas owned by France, New Zealand, UK, Argentina, Chile & Norway inhabitants have plenty of representation. ;)

And its own unofficial team! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Twillimsted/Antarctica_national_football_team

[Occam Bandage]

68. Yeah, but we don't recognize those claims.

Neither do anyone but the claimants, really. nt

[Jackeens]

69. Papua New Guinea v Antartica - that'd be some game.

World's worst football teams according to latest rankings:

201 San Marino
201 Anguilla
201 Guam
201 Montserrat
201 Cook Islands
201 American Samoa
201 Papua New Guinea

Mainly nice holiday destinations, though. :-)

[Occam Bandage]

70. As it stands, it does look like there's an inverse correlation between

quality of football team and quality of beaches. Well, except for San Marino, don't know how they got in there.

[Number23]

74. Child, my husband says the same thing! lol

Wanna make an Aussie like my husband mad?? Mention The WORLD SERIES! :rofl:

I have found that few things make international sports fans more irate than the American idea that the winner of sporting events that only take place in America constitute a "world" title. It is both baffling and infuriating to the rest of the planet.

[blaze]

77. I don't find it infuriating

but, born and bred here in the US, I've always thought it was a bit arrogant. But then I'm not much of a sports fan. I can totally visualize an Aussie sports nut going ballistic. :rofl:

:hug: for Jackeens

[Vattel]

76. I hate watching a game that can be dominated by one team,

but the other team wins 1-0 because of a stupid penalty kick. Widen the damn goal. Until then I'll watch football.

[sofa king]

78. And for that matter, I don't know why Gaelic Football and Hurling aren't bigger here.

Gaelic Football, especially, seems to be the perfect middle ground between American football and that other unfortunate hands-free sport of a similar name. High speed, few pads, uninterrupted action, guaranteed blood. What's not to like?

[Canuckistanian]

79. We noted the same thing in Toronto in 1992

The first time EVER that a "World Series" baseball title had ever gone to a non-American team.

Apart from the Montreal Expos, there never HAD been a non-American team in the "World Series".