where is Lacrosse?
CFL Rulz! Canadian Football League uses a bigger field, fewer players (I believe) and only 3 downs. Lots of big plays. The Grey Cup (Championship Trophy) is being awarded for the 101st time this year.... so don't claim Canadian rules football is an imitation.... 'tis the other way 'round. Superbowl is all of 43 this year.
Really? I watched it on EPSN America a few months ago and loved it, it is deffo better than Nascar and marginally better than Tennis (which isn't American is it?).Lacrosse isn't very popular in the US, at least compared to the others he listed.
Since NASCAR seems to be doing well in the polls without my support, I voted for something just as boring, if not moreso: American football.
It's the worst sport. I'd rather watch anything else than American football. Golf? Yes. Bowling? Yes. Paint drying? Yes. Televised fishing? Yes.
Really? I watched it on EPSN America a few months ago and loved it, it is deffo better than Nascar and marginally better than Tennis (which isn't American is it?).
Lacrosse isn't very popular in the US, at least compared to the others he listed.
Your perspective is opposite of mine. I like high scoring games, and am bored by those "difficult to score" marathons. I say make the hockey and soccer goals bigger, and allow offsides! They've changed the rules in football several times to try to increase scoring. I guess studies have shown that my preference is in the majority.
I disagree, leave them as they are.I say make the hockey and soccer goals bigger, and allow offsides!
The National Football League was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its name to the National Football League in 1922. The Super Bowl was invented later, obviously. The CFL was officially founded in 1958. So, are you saying that the Grey Cup has been awarded twice per year since then? (Nope. The Grey Cup is the oldest trophy in professional football!)
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football. Both games have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a ball is kicked at a goal and/or run over a line. Many games known as "football" were being played at colleges and universities in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. The origin of professional football can be traced back to 1892 in the United States. The first Professional "league" was the Ohio League, formed in 1903.
FYI: Canadian football has 12 players on the field for each team. U.S. football has eleven each.
(fact checking courtesy of Wikipedia)
As a big fan of football, I have to wonder why? Not to argue but just out of curiosity.
Yes, I read that too. Also discovered that there were 5 U.S. cities with CFL teams, but I think for only one year. (1994?) There were a couple the year before, and none the year after. Sure didn't make it onto SportsCenter or the sports page in the Sunday paper!Thanks for all that! I was, of course, having some fun.Grey Cup was initially awarded to amateur teams, and was then adopted by the CFL - which explains the mismatch in ages between the League and the Trophy.
If you read the whole thread, you'll find that the OP clarified the topic title. It was intended to be taken as "sports that are popular in the U.S." not that are claimed as belonging to the U.S. So, on that note, soccer doesn't qualify, but tennis and golf do. (just my unscientific read of popularity, that's all)Since soccer comes up as a topic of conversation here, I have to ask if it counts as a "US sport"? Same for tennis and golf.
See above. I find soccer just as boring as hockey, and for all the same reasons. We have an arena soccer team, and that is more interesting, to me. I go to at least one game a season, used to attend two or three. The fact that the game clock never stops (I'm not sure about that for indoor!) in no way makes it more exciting to me. The "stoppage time" curiosity belies that contention anyway.Why isnt soccer in the list? However, I don't think soccer is boring, the game clock never stops so that's a point.
Something that I think makes Hockey nearly unique (certainly among the sports listed in poll) are the line changes while the game is underway.
Soccer would make more sense to me if they were allowed to kick other players.
Golf would be more exciting if golfers had to fence each other with their golfing sticks.
That's a terrible idea, IMO. Look what it did to hockey? Hockey use to be a game of finesse, but now it's 1 or 2 skill players and the rest are thugs.Watch some really old hockey matches (before all the thugs entered the league) and you'll see some exciting matches.
Chi-Chi Rodriguez would kick tush if he were still playing.![]()