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[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
yeah and all American sports teams are "world champs" when they win too!

There's actually a fairly solid reason for this. First off, most of the rest of the world doesn't play the same games we do when we proclaim ourselves world champions. IE American football (that sport that takes the two worst aspects of American society and combines them into one game: violence and committee meatings).

Baseball doesn't count, because nobody with an IQ that surpasses room temperature really cares about baseball anyway.

You'll notice that the Stanley Cup isn't considered the "World championship", mainly because perhaps 75% of the Russian teams out there would wipe the rink with the best American team and we know it. 1980 was a fluke. Same with Canada, if they'd ever get their act together.

Basketball: see baseball.

What does that leave in America? Soccer? You think we take whatever championship they play in soccer and proclaim ourselves World Champions? If they do, they're deluding themselves.

Besides, nobody in America cares about soccer anyway, with the possible exception of Minivan driving mommies taking Brandon to soccer because it's non-contact.

(yes, Americans can be frightfully stupid sometimes).

Roger -Dot- Lee, pontificating to the choir again