This is why the United States is superior in sports

[N4th4n]

[Dan916]

srsly. How people defend baseball while mocking soccer is beyond me.

Yes soccer has lots of beta fairies who dive true, but they are all good athletes. Try running sprints for 90 minutes.

Baseball?

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Thats 1 person. And im pretty sure he throws the ball 90MPH+

[JMAG90]

Alright let's be serious for a second here

I like soccer. It's a fun sport and I play it myself regularly. But if you are speaking in terms of pure athleticism, nobody touches the USA. As fun as soccer is, when one of the most important skills in your sport is ACTING, it is difficult to claim it is "the best sport in the world." While foreigners may not like football or basketball, our best athletes play those sports and not soccer because that is where the money is.

Do you people not understand we spent 100+ years BREEDING the very best athletes in the world? Everyone screams black genetics 24/7 and then claims these huge clumsy white rugby players can compete. come on now.

brb

[judgefudge]

brb football (nfl)
brb baseball
brb basketball
brb mma
brb we'll take soccer too even tho it's the world's most overrated sport

edit's basketball & mma

5 minutes of research shows that Japan won both of the international baseball championships in the last decade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic

Serbia has more gold medals in FIBA, the international basketball championships

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_B...l_Championship

So two out of three of your supposed dominant sports you aren't even the best on an international stage, don't worry though brah being the best at NFL is something to be proud of you'll never lose that crown.

[Kramerica]

Mind = blown at this thread.

How can anyone claim the US sucks at sports? Do you people watch the Olympics? Our athletes are always competitive with the rest of the world in most events.

I'll concede that we are not very good at football (soccer), rugby, cricket, and probably other sports, but to say our nation is not good ar sports...

Just LOL. Haters be hating so hard.

This. Our olympic record should speak for its self. I would also be willing to bet, on average athletes in the NFL would absolutely demolish soccer athletes worldwide in a general athleticism test.

[CalebRM]

Lolling hard at Europeans. I just want to pinch your cheeks and tell you it's going to be ok.


The US is dominate in every sport and if rugby/soccer/whatever the **** else you play was relavent, I'm sure we would dominate too.

You can't say football isn't more entertaining than soccer lulz. Lying to yourself if you do.

[travellingbrah]

This. Our olympic record should speak for its self. I would also be willing to bet, on average athletes in the NFL would absolutely demolish soccer athletes worldwide in a general athleticism test.

Depends on the soccer athlete. There are plenty of guys who could hold their own athletically against NFL players.

Start with Marvell Wynne, who ran a 10.39 100m his senior year of high school. Better than 99% of NFL players .That is elite. Plenty of soccer players were great youth track runners before making a name in the soccer world.

Lolling hard at Europeans. I just want to pinch your cheeks and tell you it's going to be ok.


The US is dominate in every sport and if rugby/soccer/whatever the **** else you play was relavent, I'm sure we would dominate too.

You can't say football isn't more entertaining than soccer lulz. Lying to yourself if you do.

Strong moron.

[bigdiggernick11]

of topic

8 NCAA Men's Final Four
Brand Value: $90 million
U.S. college basketball's signature event generates almost twice the revenue per day of competition than American-university sports' other marquee brand: football's Bowl Championship Series.

da fuq
stupid ass bowl series, cant wait for it to die

[Rangerz91]

Hit a 100mph fastball 500 feet and tell me that it took no energy or that it was not strenuous. And again dodging the athleticism talk now.

obviously you have no concept of the word strenuous

[oneshotGG]

This thread is useless

everyone knows the greatest non poverty spot is

hockey

[BBmisc420196]

Pretty sure US sucks at most Olympic (real) sports.

Im pretty sure the US has over double the Olympic metals as Russia who is in 2nd.

I noticed you're only 16 though, so maybe "sucks" is just new slang for being good....

[LashGordon]

I'm pretty sure we got just as far as britain in the world cup did we not? We are just as good at Americans least favorite sport as the dumb brits are at their favorite. lol we can tell non americans are so butthurt.

Strong understanding of geography

ITT: England = Britain

Also, let's beef real tea for a second here. As someone who is from Northern Ireland, played Soccer and Rugby Union growing up and now lives in the US, i feel like I'm reasonably well informed to make a judgement on this.

I've seen the term athleticism continually coming up. IMO the best explosive athletes are in NFL, but in terms of the most well rounded athletes, rugby league players take it (size, strength, speed, endurance).

As for most skillful, I'd have to say Hockey or Soccer. Hockey is basically two sports happening at once, all players have to be able to skate, puck handle, engage in contact etc.

Soccer requires the endurance, speed, agility and depending on your style of play, strength. But something that people who have never played it wil not understand is that people grow up using their hands to do everything (throw catch etc), now try doing that with your feet, because that is effectively what a simple pass is in soccer, never mind hitting a 60 yard bal direct to someones feet.

As for the whole USA > All at sport argument. No. In terms of sporting success by population.... Australia.

[thisisian]

Im pretty sure the US has over double the Olympic metals as Russia who is in 2nd.

I noticed you're only 16 though, so maybe "sucks" is just new slang for being good....

I'm pretty sure your entire argument is invalid because you call them 'Olympic metals'

[xXBrutalXx]

Lol at baseball hate. The hardest thing to do in all of sports is hit a baseball. I would love for some soccer *******s to try to hit a 100mph fastball.

no the hardest thing to do in all of sports is master ice skating. then snatch a 100mph puck out of the air while moving in the opposite direction.

[thezachinator]

no the hardest thing to do in all of sports is master ice skating. then snatch a 100mph puck out of the air while moving in the opposite direction.

This. wtf took you *******s so long to realize hockey > all other sports. Hockey takes the hardest thing from all your ****gy sports and puts them into one, bad ass sport.

[b0yer2]

srsly. How people defend baseball while mocking soccer is beyond me.

Yes soccer has lots of beta fairies who dive true, but they are all good athletes. Try running sprints for 90 minutes.


Baseball?

Try hitting a ball that is coming 95+ MPH with a wood bat consistantly. There is a reason baseball players are the highest payed players in all of sports.

[JMAG90]

Start with Marvell Wynne, who ran a 10.39 100m his senior year of high school. Better than 99% of NFL players .That is elite. Plenty of soccer players were great youth track runners before making a name in the soccer world.

LOL a football player for the COLLEGE I go to runs a sub 10 100m. Better than 99% of NFL Players?

Just goes to show how ignorant foreigners are when it comes to football.

[NOVA888]

baseball is not a sport, it is an event.

Lol, I will use this for now on.

[b0yer2]

If fat people can participate, it's not a sport. End of discussion.

So powerlifting isnt a sport? Half the people on this site think you are wrong.

Lol at baseball hate. The hardest thing to do in all of sports is hit a baseball. I would love for some soccer *******s to try to hit a 100mph fastball.

Not a single ball was hit to center or right haha.

[Irezumi]

[sandpapergooch]

Try hitting a ball that is coming 95+ MPH with a wood bat consistantly. There is a reason baseball players are the highest payed players in all of sports.

They get paid more because they play more games then any other sport(cant speak for soccer as I'm not a ******* or a Mexican so I don't watch it)

[CaliiforniaLove]

Sorry but I would think it would be fairly obvious to anyone with a brain that NFL Football Players are the best pure athletes in any sport.

A few examples:

Calvin Johnson

6'6, 240 lbs
4.3 second 40 yard dash, AT 240 POUNDS
43 inch vertical leap, AT 240 POUNDS
11.5 foot broad jump

Vernon Gholston (I know he sucked at Football, was still a freak athlete though)

6'3 266 lbs
4.5 Second 40 yard dash, again, at nearly 270 ****ING POUNDS
41 inch vertical leap, 270 POUNDS!
Bench pressed 225lbs 37 times at the NFL Combine

Mario Williams

6'6 295 lbs
4.70 40 yard dash, absurd for someone weighing damn near 300 pounds
40.5 inch vertical leap, again, absolutely insane for someone that heavy
Bench pressed 225 lbs 35 times at the NFL Combine, with long ass arms

This isn't even mentioning some of the NBA freaks like Lebron James and Dwight Howard.

Sorry rest of the world, we have the best pure athletes of any nation. Period.

[Nefariousx1]

Try hitting a ball that is coming 95+ MPH with a wood bat consistantly. There is a reason baseball players are the highest payed players in all of sports.

This seems like a recurring theme with baseball *******s and their go to response.

"hurr dee hurr its hard to hit a ball with a sitck but because I can I am such a fckn athlete hurr deee derp."



my previous response rebuked your garbage perfectly

"youre partially right.

I may not be able to hit a 100mph fast ball but I gaurentee that I can Throw, Run, and Catch. Thats 70% of the sport right there.




Ohh and I can also wait around for something mildly exciting to happen for a ludicrous amount of time, so there is an additional 20%.

I can play 90% of baseball. "