american sports

[TheBigIguana]

"ahem"

...not seeing much sports mentioned. Just an observation.

Feel the love. Pitchers and catchers report any day now.

This would be a bit more exciting if my team wasn't about to lose 110 games for the third year running.

That Betts trade is wild though. I don't get that at all.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Creased me this. Love the way the yank plazzies come out with this sort of stuff.

"I'll go support someone else"

Ok, who's arsed?

Tim Howard was crap and Landon Donovan was just a second rate David Bentley with a Cenk Tosun hairline. Actually like both of them tbf.

Whatever happened to the Donovan thread anyways?

 

[Moomin]

@Yank will be back shortly.

He is busy preparing a statement to say sorry and wants to be accepted back in the Everton family.

I'm sure we will welcome him back with open arms.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

@Yank will be back shortly.

He is busy preparing a statement to say sorry and wants to be accepted back in the Everton family.

I'm sure we will welcome him back with open arms.

His ban is up so he's free to post.

 

[SerenityNigh]

You may very well be so. I joined in 2011 and you were already here. Haven’t been able to log on often with family obligations over the past couple years, but have gradually been back over the last few months.

It's a better GOT with you more involved, tell your fam to stuff it.

 

[Goat]

His ban is up so he's free to post.

With him now being a kopite can he not be banned upon his first post?

 

[SerenityNigh]

Oh God imagine being able to just turn around and say "Nar, Everton isnt for me, IM OUT", I would pay anything for that.

If you could choose between turning away from EFC and turning away from KFC, which would you pick?

 

[sdk]

Regular EFC or extra crispy?

 

[wm02]

It's a better GOT with you more involved, tell your fam to stuff it.

Very kind of you to say. They’ve been notified

 

[Goat]

If you could choose between turning away from EFC and turning away from KFC, which would you pick?

I hate KFC, the chicken is fatty and horrid, the gravy is the only good thing they do.

Burger King is King.

 

[SerenityNigh]

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.

Most regions have affiliations with the "local" team, although some of it historically comes down to regional TV broadcast. Probably 90% of Oklahoma, for instance, is split between Chiefs and Cowboys because of this.

*edit, what he said

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.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Burger King is King.

state of this

 

[wm02]

This would be a bit more exciting if my team wasn't about to lose 110 games for the third year running.

That Betts trade is wild though. I don't get that at all.

May make for some awkward moments if they were up to no good in the 2017 WS and he fessed up

 

[Goat]

state of this

The Burgers are far superior to Maccys.

Dont forget we dont have the choice you do over there.

Its pretty much KFC, Maccys, BK or Subway.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Sports teams are just businesses and brands to America they're not rooted in local pride. If they did they would never, ever move.

This is a misunderstanding of Yank geography, culture, etc. But in essence, moving a team is the same as Bury shutting down. It's an admission of failure, or blame at least on the fanbase. When a club moves it "dies," which is why people in Baltimore support the Ravens and hate the Colts.