Favourite Non American Sport

[Griff]

As a Canadian, I find the lack of the 4 sports created by Canadians disappointing. (Hockey, Lacrosse, Curling, and Basketball, for those not in the know)

[Madame Adequate]

I don't think it's really accurate to say sports are so restricted to nations. Yes, Cricket and Soccer are really big in England, whilst Football and Baseball are big in the US, but that doesn't mean there aren't fans of them in the other nations, as has been pointed out in this thread.

Of those five? Tennis or golf. Overall? Football and Hockey.

[Thorn]

Well i'm not just interested in seeing...

Nfl -20
Baseball -12
Basketball -11
Soccer (football) - 2
Rugby - 1
Cricket -1

Perhaps basketball and cricket are more universal than I thought. But there's no <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif">en way i'm putting NFL up there.

[Mo-Nercy]

I've seen one basketball game on TV and that was on SBS on sunday morning.

I didn't put Rugbyleague because thats mainly played in England, New Zealand in.

You must not on the East Coast because you have no idea just how little most sports fans in NSW or QLD would care about rugby when they could switch on to a game of league.

These days League and Union are considered equals. The former is a game where the backs can really set up some great worked plays given the speed of the play-the-ball whereas the latter is closer to being a game of endurance, where the forwards have to perform so that the possession is kept and field position is gained. There was a time where League was more or less a dying ground for struggling Union players but these days are gone. Players are now more often than not, choosing to stay in League rather than be poached away to play Union, even though League traditionally pays a lot less.

I'm pretty sure that League hasn't hit it too big in nations other than Australia, England, France and NZ. But I can't bee 100% sure. So I'm with you when you say Rugby is closer to being a universal sport.



If you did make a poll with the aforementioned sports, you'd probably see football topping it (soccer, that is).

And maybe you should open your arms to NFL. You may actually like it. We only get to see the Superbowl. But we do get it live. 4am local time. xD

[Kuzotz]

Football, and not that complete and utter <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"> they call the NFL...

And I agree with Pureghetto, you ought to have included fencing...

American football owns you...

You just suck because you can't read the plays

[Thorn]

Football, and not that complete and utter <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"> they call the NFL...

And I agree with Pureghetto, you ought to have included fencing...

American football owns you...

You just suck because you can't read the plays

NFL is a crap, slow paced sport. They wear so much protective gear that it's embaressing. I had madden 2000, that was fun. But I cant stand to watch it on cable, it bores me to death.

Mo-Mercy i'm very aware of how popular league is in Australia, but I doubt this forum would care much for popular Australian sports. If perhaps a couple more countries participated in NRL. Then i'd have put it up for sure.

Btw I refer to Football as soccer so that I don't confuse the majority of this forum. Even though it pains me to do so.