I love the way there was a guy on R4 this morning saying it was the world's premier sporting event. Memphis Ocelots win Superbowl by eight seconds AMERICA celebrated last night as the Memphis Ocelots beat the Las Vegas Assholes in Superbowl 50. The match was billed as a showdown between Memphis’ star shin-quarter Rexley Halfpipe and Vegas’ ring-fencer Chest Dimebag, but both were ruled out after testing positive for French DNA. American Footballogist Tom Logan said: “When the Ocelots pulled a ballbag in the eighth innings I thought it was game over. Thank god the judges called a Cheese Violation. “The Assholes were at their best during the fish course, but ultimately they were outclassed by the Ocelots’ state-of-the-art metal detectors.” The Superbowl has become famous for debuting commercials and yesterday was no exception, with WASP Menswear unveiling their new line of slip-on cardigans, modelled by former N-RON boyband member Hal Teeth. The half-time entertainment, scheduled for two hours while officials cleared the pitch of embedded dildos and road flares, was typically spectacular as Beyonce ass-clapped the national anthem before firing a pig into orbit.
I suppose if you're putting the emphasis on 'event' it probably is the 'world's premier sporting event' - off the top off my head I can't think of any other sports event that puts on a half-time show like the one the yanks do for the superbowl, it's not to my taste but, there's no doubting it's a BIG show.
It's rather a shame that so much of what the rest of the world sees exported from America is our insipid pop culture. There is so much more to our great nation than the utter ephemeral crap which comes out of the likes of Hollywood. You mention the World Series. It receives little interest outside of the States, and why should it, but it is much more quintessentially American than the NFL.
It's the pretentiousness of calling something ''world'' when it's played only between American (and occasionally Canadian) teams - the Broncos, on winning the Superbowl, are now being touted as world champions. The US may have exported a load of it's trashy stuff but, we forgive them, they gave us the Blues, Elvis, Chuck, Little Richard, Bo .................. Ad infinitum!
When all the best players in the world play in that particular league then I suppose as pretentious as it may sounds its actually completely accurate. Its not like calling the Premier League champions 'world champions' which would be pretentious because there's better leagues and much better teams outside of the Premier League.
I'm not having any of that Airlie old chap - if you crown yourself as 'World Champion' it's got to be open to the whole world, it's just the same as any other 'world champion' that you care to mention; as for the football - we have a World Cup winner (from the 200+ nations registered with FIFA) and a World Club champion ...... your Premier League analagy is, I think, misleading ....... no-one would dream of stating it.
I happened to be in Tokyo when the World Series winners played the winners of the Japanese league (at least I think that's who played, my time in Tokyo was all a bit fuzzy), the Japanese won and were given a heroes welcome upon their return from the US.
I'm just watching it now. I was really hoping OJ had won the MVP award. Woulda been nice to see him run out... We have this every year about World etc etc Its their game either watch and enjoy or dont and ignore.
Yes i agree though hopefully we can get a franchise and it can become our game also. Then who knows Germany and others may follow and it can then become a World Champions scenario.
Bah, that doesn't bother me at all. It was given the name World Series in 1903 when baseball wasn't even fully the National Pastime. Those who get all worked up over the alleged pretentiousness are reading too much into it.
From my time dealing with US people & talking about sport, most of the time when Baseball is mentioned they can't stand it, or if they go, they literally go to get together with mates & drink the entire game away. The game itself, they tell me, is very boring.
I had a go at baseball in my early teens, I went to one of the East Hull parks to watch Hull Aces vs Hull Royals (think that's right?), before the game they gave any interested kids a bit of a taster sesh - it wasn't cricket, know what I mean 'arry?
