I was looking at pic related and it dawned on me that Britain is the home of pretty much all modern global sports.
>Football Invented in England. >Olympics Okay that's the ONLY ONE that's not British. The modern Olympics were founded by a Frenchman in Switzerland. >Cricket Of course, invented in England. >NFL Based on English sports! American football is just a corruption of rugby, which of course was brought to America by the English. >Formula 1 Britain is the de facto home of F1 - 7 of the 10 current teams have bases here. 5 of them (half) are ENTIRELY based here. Also, we hosted the first ever world championship grand prix, and we've produced the most championship winners drivers and constructors (by far, in both cases) >Tennis Modern tennis (known as lawn tennis) was invented in Birmingham, England. >Also: >Golf Invented in Scotland. >Hockey Invented in England. Ice hockey is just a corruption of this British sport. >Baseball Invented in England. Yes that's right, check Wikipedia if you don't believe me.
So basically we invented all modern globally popular sports. Why are we so goddamn amazing?
>Baseball >Invented in England It was invented in New Jersey, you fucking idiot.
Jonathan White
No it wasn't
Aaron Jackson
The first professional baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey. However, it wasn't invented here.
Nolan Green
That's pretty impressive. How are they so shit at all of them then?
Logan Martinez
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Dominic Evans
>invent all sports >suck at all of them
Why would you be proud of this?
Nathan Gomez
Invented by a Canadian (ie: British)
Evan Rodriguez
A lot of cultures came up with a ball and goal sport.
Tyler Garcia
Hmm wait a second, that date is unfamiliar to me. Disregard, I too suck dicks.
Kayden Campbell
Inventing basketball is not something to be proud of
Connor Thomas
pic looks a little outdated
Andrew Bennett
Dont know why its not on there but the 2015 rugby world cup final got 120 million
Joshua Garcia
It's old. The Cricket World Cup semis got past a billion viewers
Jaxon Hill
>EVERY SINGLE POSTER ITT is from an Anglo nation
I don't even know how to feel about this
Elijah Russell
America isn't anglo
Landon Phillips
Sports became a fad in the UK around the 1800s for the richer class to do when not at work.
The idea being a stronger and fitter body led to a similar mind "work hard, play hard"
As such a lot of rulebooks were published in the UK to make a lo f money on people wanting to learn how to play a sport and thus they were "invented" when the rulebook was published.
A side effect of this, if anyone is familiar with any history of any sport, is that for decades these sports were played primarily by rich amateurs because of the fact that sports were seen as something to do in spare time away from "real work" professionalism in sport was looked down on even as far up o as the 1970s~80s in some sports before finally becoming "Open" to both amateurs and professionals
Depending on the sport but the main reason is because these sports were mainly seen as something rich kids did at school or rich guys did when off work for over a century, and some still are like cricket. But in other countries it isn't s their player base is way bigger and more serious than it can ever b in the UK
Oliver Jenkins
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Hudson Perez
>invent hockey >be goat at it
how can Bongistan even compete?
Noah Collins
But Canada, Australia and England are
Julian Bennett
So the bongs, didn't invent those sports; but they ARE just a very pedantic people ?
John Clark
Pretty much. Rounders is not all like the current game of baseball, and football is very different than rugby. Ice hockey was invented in Canada, as well.
>Rounders >not gonna lie - never heard of it >pic related makes me think bong girls just wanted some innocent dildo play
Not only very pedantic; bongs are also very repressed, sexually
Elijah Miller
It's not a global sport, which is why I didn't mention it.
But this guy is right: It was invented by a Canadian, Dr. James Naismith, in Massachusetts like that image says. Naismith's parents were Scottish, who emigrated to Canada. Also, basketball was originally played with a "sawker" ball... and "sawker" (or, that is, football) is British!
GRIDIRON HANDEGG IS LITERALLY DIRECTLY FUCKING DESCENDED FROM RUGBY YOU FUCKING ASSFUCKER
ICE HOCKEY IS LITERALLY JUST THE ENGLISH GAME OF HOCKEY PLAYED ON ICE YOU FUCKING COCKMONGLING FUCKFACE
Nicholas Allen
I've seen pakis carrying criket bats in your country and bongs seem perfectly fine with it. Why don't the police arrest them?
Christian Ward
yet they are shit at all of them baka
Cameron Ward
>GRIDIRON HANDEGG IS LITERALLY DIRECTLY FUCKING DESCENDED FROM RUGBY It's not the same sport. The forward pass is the most important part of the current game of football, and you didn't invent that. >ICE HOCKEY IS LITERALLY JUST THE ENGLISH GAME OF HOCKEY PLAYED ON ICE So it's not the English game of hockey? Being on ice is kind of critical to the current game of hockey lmao.
Luis Rodriguez
Britain also invented the greatest country in history, the United States of America, which is now better than it in every sport imaginable.
Thomas Diaz
basketball is more global than American Football or baseball
Jonathan Jones
Just because it's based off another game doesn't mean it isn't a new sport
Adrian Martinez
HOW DARE YOU CLAIM MY GLORIOUS HANDEGG YOU FUCK WIT