Reply With QuoteI'll give you a clue. The answer is 12.Originally Posted by BlueWales
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This is disputed on Wikepedia btw. The New York World newspaper went out of business in the 1930s.
I'll give you a clue. The answer is 12.
Just found the paragraph on wikipedia:
"In his book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, Simon Winchester mentions in passing that the World Series was named for the New York World newspaper,[6] but this view is disputed.[7]"
How on earth is a book on Krakatoa the only source on this?
Snopes is your friend:Just found the paragraph on wikipedia:
"In his book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, Simon Winchester mentions in passing that the World Series was named for the New York World newspaper,[6] but this view is disputed.[7]"
How on earth is a book on Krakatoa the only source on this?
https://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp
As a general rule Americans only give a shit about sports that they’re the best at/they’re the only ones who care about it.
That’s why they love American football, basketball, baseball and shooting each other but don’t care about football rugby or cricket.
Canada here, but before Toronto FC matches most of the stadium joins in with the Canadian anthem. Since the team has been around (11 years now) the singer generally sings the first few words and turns it over to the crowd much like what happened in the recent Wales match.
Personally, I hate the anthems before every event. We generally have to stand through the American one and then the Canadian one. It's more of a spectacle really usually with the Armed Forces/Air Force involved, hell it's been found out in recent years that they pay money to have these displays during the anthems, good recruitment I suppose which is why all this business with players protesting during the anthem caused such a big uproar.
The vast majority of countries around the world do not seriously engage in rugby and cricket!
Worked in the USA quite a bit, used to slag their sports off big time, occasionally one of them would reply with cricket which usually shut me up. Hard to defend. They've got to have plenty of scoring, couldn't comprehend how a football game could end 0-0 and still be entertaining.
I get your point, incredibly frustrating how people with no knowledge of the sport (football) just dismiss it over here. However, in all fairness about 70,000 people just watched a 0-0 match between Atlanta and Columbus in MLS playoffs that was one of the more exciting matches I have seen in quite some time. It's slowly catching on in the right markets considering MLS itself is only 20+ years old.
In Canada curling sometimes outdraws most sports in terms of television viewership.. strange world or perhaps older people watch more tv.
You're supposed to listen with your hand on your heart and look in the direction of the flag. There's no rule that you can't sing along, but it's not supposed to be a giant sing along, and as others have mentioned it's not an easy tune. It could easily fall apart at the "and the rocket's red glare..." bit
Ridiculous, but symptomatic of a culture/society that has evidently f*cked itself up. No doubt the same will be true of UK soon enough.
TBH I find 'American' sports - presented in the American way - almost impossible to relate to, nor enjoy.
I don't know 'our' national anthem if you're referring to GSTQ. I could just about manage the first verse but after that I'm lost.
God Save the Queen
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen!
O lord God arise,
Scatter our enemies,
And make them fall!
Confound their knavish tricks,
Confuse their politics,
On you our hopes we fix,
God save the Queen!
Not in this land alone,
But be God's mercies known,
From shore to shore!
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be,
And form one family,
The wide world ov'er
From every latent foe,
From the assassin's blow,
God save the Queen!
O'er her thine arm extend,
For Britain's sake defend,
Our mother, prince, and friend,
God save the Queen!
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour,
Long may she reign!
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nat...hemlyrics.html
It is still a bag of miserable imperialist doggerel set to the most depressing dirge in the history of music, but at least the powers that be have stopped explicitly abusing the Scots in the current version.
Basketball.
Now there's a sport I can't get my head around.
Team gets ball, runs down the other end, scores.
Other team gets ball, runs down the other end, scores.
Common sort of score is 120-118
Cricket must be one of the most popular sports in the world though, because of its dominance in the Indian subcontinent.
So only 12 nations teams in the world play cricket ?
That's 11 more nations than play in the " World Series " which is just one yank leagues winners
playing another yank leagues winners in a play off. Just like American football bullshit " Superbowl ".
Spot on Jon !
Little bit pedantic
DUB NATION!
That's how I see it too.
What is your objection to the term Super Bowl?
I view it as a fast paced football
But with hands
And baskets for goals
And a screamer is a 3-pointer
Huh?
Would you want to watch a football match where the final score was 35-33?
It isn't at all Super to most people in the world , only Yanks.
Stupor bowl is more apt. Ads v actual play make it a borefest.
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