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american sports

should amercian sports be banned??

  • yes buddy

    Votes: 57 64.0%

  • no bozo

    Votes: 32 36.0%
  • Total voters
    89
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Efcjake said:
Most of their teams haven't really been established enough to develop that family history bond most of us have with our footy clubs and even if they do the gloryhunting culture encourages them to pack in their grandad's team when they're crap and jump on the bandwagon for someone else.
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TheBigIguana said:
I get what you mean, but I think throwing shade at Americans supporting our sports is over the top. Some proper sports towns over here even if the code of football is different and we play rounders instead of cricket. Places like Philly, Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Cleveland, Kansas City, Seattle, Chicago and I'm sure others live and die with the local teams.
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Nymzee said:
To be fair, supporting a team in America is a joke anyway. When you have the ability to uproot an entire sports team and move it across the country local loyalty doesn’t mean anything.
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Yeah this is the problem. Obviously there are plenty of teams (franchises) that are now well established, but there are also plenty that have been moved back and forth many times over the years. How are teams supposed to put down roots? How are fans supposed to remain loyal when their team may be taken away from them, or they've had a team dumped upon them from elsewhere?

Then you look at all the places that don't even have a local team, or at least not of any repute, or connection to the major leagues. At least here if you're a fan of Accrington Stanley, theoretically it is possible for you to make it to the premier league, or play against one of those teams in the cup. There just isn't that facility in most American sports.
 
Philw said:
Yeah this is the problem. Obviously there are plenty of teams (franchises) that are now well established, but there are also plenty that have been moved back and forth many times over the years. How are teams supposed to put down roots? How are fans supposed to remain loyal when their team may be taken away from them, or they've had a team dumped upon them from elsewhere?

Then you look at all the places that don't even have a local team, or at least not of any repute, or connection to the major leagues. At least here if you're a fan of Accrington Stanley, theoretically it is possible for you to make it to the premier league, or play against one of those teams in the cup. There just isn't that facility in most American sports.
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This whole line of argument is bogus, quite frankly. It's just as bogus as saying English supporters can't really love their clubs because they could at any moment go bankrupt and be liquidated like Bury.

Yes American teams move. But in between those moves they more often than not build massive support in the towns they occupy. The roots are planted just the same as in any other place. When teams move it sucks as all that is torn up, but it doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all.

As for the no local team part you have to understand the US geography is a bit different. A team in a city 90 minutes away is very local here. To that end the biggest media market without a major professional team is Hartford, and that city happens to split NY and Boston. The biggest market that doesn't have a team within a couple of hours is like Albuquerque. For the most part people can find a local team in some sport, if they want to.
 

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