Rugby Union
Cricket
Golf
Tennis
Soccer (Football)
Favourite Non American Sport
As an Aussie, I LOVE sport. So I decided I might make a poll on people's favourite sports, but if everyone were to say. "NFL","Baseball" and "Basketball" (sports not played in Australia), then i'd get nothing out of this poll.
So i've chosen a select few, universal sports which I assume all of you know of and perhaps have played.
For one thing, the number of Americans and Rest of World are pretty even here, maybe even the Americans are the Minority. Secondly, they are played in other countries, just not to the same scale of in America, except for Baseball which is supposed to be pretty damn popular in Japan. And why you decided to just cut out half of the demographic of the forum from answering just because you don't give a crap about their favourite sport is beyond me, but whatever.
As for the poll, Cricket is my favourite sport of all. So yeah.
Basketball is a pretty popular national sport in Australia. Yay Kings!
And I'm sure everyone that's heard of Rugby Union would have heard about Rugby League too, so I don't know why you wouldn't put that up as well. If anything NRL is MORE popular as a spectator sport in Australia than ARU. Predominantly in NSW and QLD.
And let's face it. Number of NFL fans in America > Population of Australia.
But yeah, I'd go Rugby League if it was there. Since it's not...I vote nothing.
Erm, i live in ireland, but whatever. I enjoy soccer the most.
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I went with golf because I have enjoyed it the few times I've played it... but if you're talking about watching I prefer to watch rugby.
Competitive cybergaming was also not included in the list and that's another nitpicky thing because you're totally destroying the demographic of sport-hatin' nerds on this board!
I've seen one basketball game on TV and that was on SBS on sunday morning.Originally Posted by Mo-Nercy
I didn't put Rugbyleague because thats mainly played in England, New Zealand in.
I'm aware that Baseball and Basketball arent played only in USA but apart from Japan (apparently) few other nations would air it prime time on TV.
But i'm glad you like Cricket, which is my favourite.
basketball is of course played in australia. otherwise, where would we have gotten luke schenscher and andrew bogut? just to name two that i remember.
and what about australian football? and also, very few people even know how to play cricket in the US, let alone actually play it, so your claim that it is a "universal" sport is flawed. curling would have been a better choice. and the amount of rugby played is also not as high here as it is in other parts of the world. "universal" sports? hardly.
anyway. soccer is godly. so yeah.
Soccer (FOOTBALL, YEEH!) and cricket.
Cricket and Rugby are not universal sports.
Football is my favourite both to play and to watch. I do love football. Cricket can also be a lot of fun to play, but I really can't watch it.
They're played in more countries than you'd think, really. Possibly more universal than baseball.
Please don't double-post, use the edit/delete button instead.
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Not my words Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine.
Thats hard because i like all of them apart from Rugby Union and Golf, i said footie beacuase you can play it all year round
That doesn't make them universal. Rugby...maybe. Cricket...NO. That is played mainly in former countries controlled by England(South America, Australia and so on) or countries with a history of English influence.They're played in more countries than you'd think, really. Possibly more universal than baseball.
Well, naturally, that's how the sport spread. Still a large number of countries are at least members of the International Cricket Council (the USA and Canada are both associate members of). Still, perhaps cricket isn't universal like you said, but it is played across the world more than you'd think.That doesn't make them universal. Rugby...maybe. Cricket...NO. That is played mainly in former countries controlled by England(South America, Australia and so on) or countries with a history of English influence.They're played in more countries than you'd think, really. Possibly more universal than baseball.
Not my words Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine.
The US and Canada is on some sort of cricket consol? I am willing to be that 99.9999999999999993% of the population things cricket is an English form of Baseball. It is not a universal sport and has been around long enough to gain enough appeal to become one. It isn't going to happen. Same thing with baseball. Baseball is played in the Americas mainly. Lots of countries but not a universal sport.
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