11 reasons why the Super Bowl - and American football in general - sucks
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The vampire bat mostly feeds on the blood of mammals, hence its name.
It is the only mammal which is a parasite.
The Six Nations Championship is on course to overtake the Super Bowl for global viewing figures, just as the Champions League Final, which is roughly European football's equivalent of the Super Bowl, did a few years ago, when it took the Super Bowl's place as the most-watched annual sporting event in the world. The Six Nations Championship is coming close to pushing the Super Bowl down into third place as the most-watched annual sporting event on Earth.
The world seems to prefer football and rugby.
SUperbowl IS football. You don't even know the name of the sport you like so much. What is the name of that girly game you like so much again? Oh yea, soccer. Sounds kind of like spousal abuse.
That's funny. I've always been led to believe that teams like Manchester United and Real Madrid and Bayern Munich and CSKA Moscow play football. I must have got the wrong end of the stick.
It's not called sacker. You lot in North America only call it sacker because you have nicked the real name for that sport - the name which everybody else uses for it - for handegg.
You do realize in most places outside your little universe hundreds of people gather to watch one TV. They don't care what they watch. They just want to watch TV.
The global viewing figures for football far surpass that of American football.
England's Premier League alone is watched by half-a-billion households in almost every country on the planet every year. Liverpool vs Manchester United matches alone regularly generate global viewing figures of almost 1 billion - that's probably more than watch the Super Bowl, and they are just ordinary Premier League matches rather than a cup final.
A few years ago, the Champions League Final overtook the Super Bowl as the world's most watched annual sporting event. But that is just one game. Football's global popularity as a whole far surpasses any North American sport.
The Beautiful Game is THE global sport - it is the national sport of more countries than any other sport - and no North American sport even comes close to emulating its success.
Of course socker is global, every third-world kid learns to play it because it's cheap and they have no exposure to anything else. Probably some Stockholm Syndrome involved.
That's a rather silly attempt to explain the Six Nations Championships' growing global popularity.
Spanish football's El Clásico, between Real Madrid and Barcelona, now also attracts a bigger global audience than the boring Super Bowl, and that's even for just a regular season game.
And bear in mind that a huge chunk - a hundred million or so - of the Super Bowl's viewers are in one country - America.
If Third World kids wanted to play American football they would. The fact that they choose football tells you something...
Cricket is boring, much like the British.
Cricket bat
That looks like something Mattel manufactures.
Yes, someone has to keep time in basketball. Unlike the neaderthal 'wait until the ref watches someone finish their last attempt to score' routine. Any game that runs on a clock that is completely irrelevant for time is pretty stunned.