Nobody cares about curling or boxing, and only Canadians actually care about hockey. Yet somehow these are Olympic sports, often having just a few teams compete. How is the biggest professional sport in the world not in the Olympics?
Other countires don't play football. No team would allow it due to injuries. Games are too physical to crown a champion over a 2 week span. Biggest professional sport in the world? Please tell me this isn't another soccer thread.
Great now this cunt is infecting other parts of the forum with his bullshit. We should all post pandas and pizza to his nonsense.
Thats not true, the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) lists 57 member nations on five continents as its members. There are amateur football leagues in almost every single country in Europe, in most South AMerican countries and even in Mexico. That's more than enough countries. Way more countries play football than hockey. What team? Hockey seems to have no problem. Boxing is literally punching a guy in the face, yet its not too physical for the Olympics. Same with other combat sports. Football generates more revenue than any other sport, way more than soccer. NFL generates 9 billion a year, soccer simply cannot compete nor can any other sport. Even though football isn't as big as soccer in other countries, NFL still enjoys worldwide media attention and the Super Bowl is watched by close to a billion people worldwide. Its the effect of America's globally dominant media position. Its odd to me that the most watched, richest and most media covered sport in the world is not part of what is supposed to be the biggest celebration of sport.
Lol its all part of some elitist agenda, that is dying to come out. I am going with some white power issues or something.
Its fact. Name me one sports league that makes more revenues than the NFL. Name me one with more fans or more media exposure. Football may not be the most popular sport in other countries because its expensive and only America is wealthy enough to afford widespread football, but it is a very popular sport internationally as the Super Bowl demonstrates. They held games in England and sold out 90,000 tickets in 20 minutes.
....and you could level the playing field by having Don Bosco Prep represent the U.S. dumb idea pflame
Forgetting the fact that no other nation has its own respectable professional league, how do you get football players of any repute to sign up for 7-8 more games in a year?
Hey can someone tell this uniformed cunt that there are 70+ countries that belong to the International Ice Hockey Federation, unless of course the jackass means field hockey.
What makes you think the players would participate. They certainly didn't want to give 18 game seasons.
I was referring to your statement that football is "the most watched, richest and most media covered sport in the world", but don't bother answering. I'm not sure why I'm encouraging you with this tedious charade.
Baseball is pretty big here, and is bigger in more countries than american football is. It used to be an olympic sport but they got rid of that to, I completely understand why football would not be and "olympic event."
