Ka-pi96 said:
Well to be fair the NFL is literally the only professional league for that sport, so claiming to be world champions for winning it has some merit at least. The NBA and MLB, while those leagues are so far ahead of any other leagues in those sports that their champions probably would win any world championship tournament anyway, it's still pretty bad to make such an arrogant claim like that. I'd love to see another league rise up in those sports and to have a team thrash an NBA/MLB team in an exhibition game or something just to make their "world champion" claim look really stupid. Unfortunately that doesn't look like it will happen any time soon... if ever. |
No country or league outside of the USA will ever be able to compete with the NFL. But why should the rest of the world care when there's rugby, a game so similar that there's no need to even bother adopting the American version. The Japanese baseball league is the clear number 2 in the world, and they are making their league better by getting Korean and Taiwanese players. But unfortunately there's no way the MLB would actually agree to a real World Series against the Japanese teams and if a Japanese team actually managed to win, the MLB would just claim that they won because none of their players took it seriously. Basketball is really the only American sport I could see becoming popular worldwide. China may have had a chance to build a major competitive league as the sport is popular there, but their leader Xi Jiping decided football was more important and so the resources are being put into the Chinese Super League, so that leaves the NBA as the only major basketball league.
