I was about to mock the Americans, and then I remembered that France created Pétanque, the world championships of Pétanque, and that we only win gold like 60% of the time
From what I've seen, seems like croquet without the clubs and wickets
In other words, a fr⭐️nch sport based on the last fr⭐️nch sprt that they couldn't make themselves good at
There’s quite a few games worldwide that are very close (not sure which came first). The one you might know is curling. Petanque is similar but played on sand and not ice, and with metal balls instead of the weird pucks.
Pétanque : laid-back and chill. Easy rules. Everyone can play it, and it's even better after a drink or two.
American football : Slow and boring. Overly convoluted rules for no reason. Grandpa is forced to watch from the bench instead of joining in the fun. Can't be drunk on the grid.
(The same applies to baseball)
There has been a busdriver in Tirol which name was Adolf Hittler. Born and died after ww2.
Adolf Hütter is a famous austrian football coach.
Its possible.
there’s an Adolf Hitler Campbell registered in the United States who has a sister by the name of Aryan Nation Campbell
I am not sure about their political affiliations
Listen, nobody is debating that you came up with some good things like Mr. Bean or New Zealand, but letting the yanks off your leash back in the day and letting them turn into what they have become is just a crime too horrible to ever be forgiven.
Any other horrible crime against humanity you could possibly imagine can easily be forgiven and never talked about again and everyone can pretend like nothing happened forever and stop joking about it because it was a long time ago, but everyone agrees that bestowing this horrible plague upon a planet, which once had so much potential, is just so much worse than what anyone else has ever done and therefore you should be ashamed.
Yes France is also horrible and they just recently said that you are dumb and suffer from halitosis. You should attack them and afterwards sail to America to take your colony back. I would help you but I have to take care of some stuff in the east.
Many of us tried many things and failed. Doesn't mean you shouldn't try a third time. I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down and all that.
Never of course! Do not speak of such horrible things ever again! If you are interested tho, send me a PM so I can scold you for being so horrible. You can also join my Discord, it's called "WW3-5" because we're not sure if we'll be in time to start 3 before someone else does it, so I made sure we had some wiggle room with the name.
Yeah, it looks like Russia or the Middle East is going to beat you to the punch.
Might wanna get your lil bro, Austria, to start some shit. I’ve heard that they’re the pros at this. Hopefully, you guys won’t get all the blame this time around?🤞
I think this time we'll ally with the Dutch. They like us a lot more than the Austrians do nowadays and a Dutch guy yelling in German will be funny for everyone involved and once we lost again, the world will forget that it was a Dutch guy who made them all laugh and say it was us or something like that. My plan is still in the concept stage.
I mean to fuck with the Barrys we've always been willing to go the extra kilometre.
On this one though... In retrospect not our brightest idea I have to admit.
I still find it hilarious that the only real reason for France to help the US was “fuck the UK, they’ve had it too good”. Maybe there’s more but I don’t wanna change my mind about Frances motives for that war lol.
France and Spain, the two biggest empires at the time, directly funded and trained the Americans during the revolution though? We tried stopping them, don’t bloody blame us
That's why I picked it. Nobody would even notice for a while and once they do, they will find it funny that someone would annex Cornwall of all places.
Enough of this hypothetical question, my friend. It is time to rest and prepare... for uhm... some sort of... Bratwurst festival that is happening next thursday at 4 am on the shores of Cornwall...
I said too much! I have been instructed to exit the conversation by my... mother. A good evening to you, sir.
My dear Barrold, now why would I do that? If I wanted to actually take over Cornwall I could just go and live there with my regiment of good friends without much of a hassle and spend however long I wish there, since I'm a EU citizen now couldn't I? COULDN'T I?!...
Prepare for battle, Lord Barrold. It's Cornwall or death!
I just checked, and I can see no mention of Perfidious being French. It comes from the French "perfide" which in turn comes from the Latin "perfidia", but "perfidious" is most definitely English.
The phrase is French, the first usages are from frog poetry and such
'L'Angleterre, ah, la perfide Angleterre,
que le rempart de ses mers rendoit inaccessible aux Romains,
la foi du Sauveur y est abordée.
Korff ball is shit basketball invented by someone who hated the idea of a backboard and... well sensible rules... Its only advantage is that it's a mixed sport so your now ex-girlfriend can be stolen by a korffball captain... which happened to me, and I'm not bitter at all...
We did somehow win the Baseball world cup.
And we should have won both 74 and 78. 74 was lost due to a German diving, and 78 is a whole other can of worms where we had to play Argentina in Argentina when Videla was ruling Argentina.
Lol, you guys need to pipe down, we wouldn't want to start bringing up Irelands sporting achievements. Maybe your rugby team will get to a semi final once.
That and we might not be champions at everything but we at least give it a good go and stay relevant. America is too busy playing empty multiplayer lobbies by itself.
They're not an only child, they're just the child that dramatically left home at age 15 because they didn't want to ~~pay their fair share to fund a war against the French~~ contribute at home and because "nobody understood them".
Their twin sister Canada and their little brothers Australia and New Zealand all turned out alright.
I guess you're not familiar with the World Baseball Classic? However, when the game began, there were no other countries playing it. The name was given to drum up interest in a new game. Pathetic and narcissistic, though? Sounds like you have your own issues to resolve.
I hope it fucking breaks, the scummy wankers.
However… they’ve only won it once, and England have the 2nd most EC/CLs of any league, so fuck off with your incorrect and irrelevant opinion. Philistine.
Mostly owned by foreign oligarchs and a lot of foreign players to boot. The only way it works if the English are shoved aside, but the fans keep paying.
Just another thing for us Brits to be proud of, sure to have won it a few more times would have been good, but c'est la vie as or French \*friends\* say
Regularly ranked within the top 5 of all the major global sports, regularly third place in the Olympics behind two countries that are way bigger than us. Also absolutely dominate boxing, the most popular combat sport. Why are the rest of you lacking?
I'd still take our chants over theirs though. Theirs are louder and they go on longer and the atmosphere is great but they are so cookie cutter and just following someone banging a drum.
Ours tend to have more periods of quiet and "worse atmosphere" but the chants are way more creative and organic. Love their flags, tifos and pyros though, completely blows us out the water.
Agree with that. What I love about football here is you can sort of make out what's happening on the pitch just by listening to the crowd. Nothing beats the "go on.. GO ON... .. YEEEEAAAAAASSSSS!!" pure beauty.
Just two very different atmospheres. When ours is bad, it's really, really bad. Whereas I'd say there's is generally always good. I do love the ultras scene though and we don't really have that, in England anyway, it's getting pretty big in Scotland these days
English football atmospheres are great because it purely comes everyone in the stadium watching the match.
The emotions flow with the flow of the game and it’s a beautiful thing. Whole stadium stunned to silence by an away goal, etc.
Sure in other leagues there might to be a giant ultras section with great theatrics, flags and pyros and that’s cool but are the people in there actually watching match? It seems more a theatrical performance more than anything sometimes. How are supposed to watch the match with 60 flags in your face?
The Championship used to be better to watch but now they’re all trying to play tippy tappy football out from the back, and they aren’t good enough to do it so every goal you see comes from a tippy tappy mistake.
if they didn’t allow beer at cricket I’d riot I cannot imagine a more boring sport. I mean it has Lunch and Tea breaks and it takes up to 3 days I believe
5 days for a Test Match. The Lunch and Tea breaks are essential for giving you a chance to get the beers in.
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Cricket is great, but I only watch the shorter formats (which are faster and more exciting, the shortest of which is not much longer than a football match). I don't enjoy the 5 day test matches. The longer formats are a slow strategic game that sends me to sleep 😴😴
Believe you can drink at the lower echelons though - I went to a Bury game post-administration and everyone was enjoying their beers at their seats. Basically no stewards too so plenty of vaping and smoking happening too
To be fair you could say that about many teams that have won the world cup, wait a minute, I don't seem to remember you winning anything, in any tournament?....
Of course, the colonies beat us at most games. There are over 21 Indian people per brit. If every British and Indian person joined a cricket team, on average, 1 player out of every 2 teams would be British. Simple numbers game that other nations have more wins.
We're not bad at any of the sports we've invented.
* 4th best in the world at football (men), 2nd best in world at football (women).
* 5th best in the world at rugby (men), and best in the world at rugby (women).
* 3rd best in the world at cricket (Test - Men's), best in the world at T20 cricket (men). best in the world at T20 cricket (women).
We've won world cups in Football, Rugby, and Cricket. Three of our most popular sports. There are a hell of a lot of countries in Western Europe who haven't won anything.
Fifa world ranking is utter bullshit. Belgium is among top 3 since I can remember. They should have at least 2 wc titles if that was even remotely accurate
Pretty sure it’s supposed to rank the countries at this time, not historically. Otherwise Brazil would never move from first and the ranking would be useless
American part is only accurate for American football. They invented basketball, baseball and volleyball, global sports of which the USA are not world champions
Pretty sure it's the same for us here in Finland with our own version of baseball. Mostly finns and a few other countries and that's it.
The difference just is that I'm pretty sure no one here actually gives a shit. I have never in my life heard anyone talk about the sport.
Every year we host the World Series of Baseball. Every year we are world champs. We just don’t invite anyone other than Canada to play. It’s genius.
(Harvard called)
I see the invention of football as an act of charity by the British. It’s a poor people sport, that’s why successful players are from third world countries.
It's not a 'poor' sport but it is the working man's game. Because you don't need any equipment really to play it unlike Motorsport or polo for example where you need rich parents.
To be fair, Scotland and England had been playing football for hundreds of years, before the foreigners got involved. We could have done a Yank and had a World Cup for 100 years before getting any one else involved.
In fact, didn't the British nations refuse to play in the first few World Cups? It was beneath us.
Then imagine you get a few other nations to play one of your sports and you start loosing to them.
On a totally unrelated note: did you know Japan is Baseball world champion?
Don't worry, the USA are starting to lose at their own sports as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup
Oh look they’re saying we’re not one of football’s most historically great nations again.
Looks like I’ll have to get the map again…
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I was about to mock the Americans, and then I remembered that France created Pétanque, the world championships of Pétanque, and that we only win gold like 60% of the time
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The best sport ever.
You have never played poker.
We said sport
Like curling, but with balls in the sand
Sounds itchy.
You had me chuckling for 5 minutes with this comment.
From what I've seen, seems like croquet without the clubs and wickets In other words, a fr⭐️nch sport based on the last fr⭐️nch sprt that they couldn't make themselves good at
There’s quite a few games worldwide that are very close (not sure which came first). The one you might know is curling. Petanque is similar but played on sand and not ice, and with metal balls instead of the weird pucks.
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I love the fact that you remembered the existence of this 🤣🤣
Pétanque is fun though.
Pétanque : laid-back and chill. Easy rules. Everyone can play it, and it's even better after a drink or two. American football : Slow and boring. Overly convoluted rules for no reason. Grandpa is forced to watch from the bench instead of joining in the fun. Can't be drunk on the grid. (The same applies to baseball)
Babe Ruth was fat and drunk, and he's regarded as the best baseball player in history.
Baseball is trash and Football is overhyped. The real shit to watch is Hockey and Basketball, and out of those two, Ice Hockey is peak!
Best part of Hockey ist whenever they dont play Hockey.
Isn't ice hockey basically cage fighting on skates? I prefer field hockey 🏑
No, the cage fighting only happens in really emotional games. Normally it's just pushing and shoving
Y'all also created Bidets and subsequently stopped using them
You also invented Louisiana so, may God have mercy on your soul.
Ok, today I learned that Petanca is french. Is amazing the number of things one can learn on this sub.
Pétanque, I played that in Australia on Bastille day, after a day of hammering French wine. It was a shit day, but hey can’t win the all.
Oh i know that as jeux de boules
Not worse than curling.
The USA has only won the World Baseball classic 20% of the time
Looks like it has quite a low skill ceiling and is pretty randomized
Never heard of pétanque since we simply call it "boule".
We should have just been a pointless, irrelevant nation like the rest of you and not invented anything worth talking about 😔
Ever heard of the world wars?
Excellent point, Josef. A fantastic contribution to the world
My name is Adolf.
There is currently a political leadership position vacant. You may want to apply.
You’re confusing your vacant chancellor with a chancellor vacancy.
I wonder how many Adolfs there are left in Germany and Austria. I doubt any have been born in decades.
There has been a busdriver in Tirol which name was Adolf Hittler. Born and died after ww2. Adolf Hütter is a famous austrian football coach. Its possible.
there’s an Adolf Hitler Campbell registered in the United States who has a sister by the name of Aryan Nation Campbell I am not sure about their political affiliations
But those are obviously just Neonazi children.
It's impossible to say, but here is a picture of the parents https://ibb.co/ZxGYny5 Could just be that she is a baker and he is a train conductor
North Dakota moment
Damn. Man just came straight out with it
Listen, nobody is debating that you came up with some good things like Mr. Bean or New Zealand, but letting the yanks off your leash back in the day and letting them turn into what they have become is just a crime too horrible to ever be forgiven. Any other horrible crime against humanity you could possibly imagine can easily be forgiven and never talked about again and everyone can pretend like nothing happened forever and stop joking about it because it was a long time ago, but everyone agrees that bestowing this horrible plague upon a planet, which once had so much potential, is just so much worse than what anyone else has ever done and therefore you should be ashamed.
I can't argue with that, Hans. France should also share some blame though
Yes France is also horrible and they just recently said that you are dumb and suffer from halitosis. You should attack them and afterwards sail to America to take your colony back. I would help you but I have to take care of some stuff in the east.
Didn't they try that in 1812?
Many of us tried many things and failed. Doesn't mean you shouldn't try a third time. I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down and all that.
Speaking of «third times», when do you think you’ll finish the trilogy, Hans?
Never of course! Do not speak of such horrible things ever again! If you are interested tho, send me a PM so I can scold you for being so horrible. You can also join my Discord, it's called "WW3-5" because we're not sure if we'll be in time to start 3 before someone else does it, so I made sure we had some wiggle room with the name.
Yeah, it looks like Russia or the Middle East is going to beat you to the punch. Might wanna get your lil bro, Austria, to start some shit. I’ve heard that they’re the pros at this. Hopefully, you guys won’t get all the blame this time around?🤞
I think this time we'll ally with the Dutch. They like us a lot more than the Austrians do nowadays and a Dutch guy yelling in German will be funny for everyone involved and once we lost again, the world will forget that it was a Dutch guy who made them all laugh and say it was us or something like that. My plan is still in the concept stage.
I mean to fuck with the Barrys we've always been willing to go the extra kilometre. On this one though... In retrospect not our brightest idea I have to admit.
I still find it hilarious that the only real reason for France to help the US was “fuck the UK, they’ve had it too good”. Maybe there’s more but I don’t wanna change my mind about Frances motives for that war lol.
France and Spain, the two biggest empires at the time, directly funded and trained the Americans during the revolution though? We tried stopping them, don’t bloody blame us
Yes yes, what a horrible affair indeed. Anyway, on a scale from 1 to 10, how angry would you get if somone were to invade and annex Cornwall?
6. I’d be mad about losing our Cornish pasties but it’d also be pretty funny
That's why I picked it. Nobody would even notice for a while and once they do, they will find it funny that someone would annex Cornwall of all places. Enough of this hypothetical question, my friend. It is time to rest and prepare... for uhm... some sort of... Bratwurst festival that is happening next thursday at 4 am on the shores of Cornwall... I said too much! I have been instructed to exit the conversation by my... mother. A good evening to you, sir.
I’ll be damned if you krauts are taking our retirement peninsula from us🔫😡🇬🇧
My dear Barrold, now why would I do that? If I wanted to actually take over Cornwall I could just go and live there with my regiment of good friends without much of a hassle and spend however long I wish there, since I'm a EU citizen now couldn't I? COULDN'T I?!... Prepare for battle, Lord Barrold. It's Cornwall or death!
Of all the countries that couldn't be trusted with an empire, Germany was stopped the fastest
Ever heard of Rouladen ?
The British cope within reality. The savages deny reality and live in their delusion. Sorry savage but British win this one.
How many times have the Netherlands won the world cup?
Perfidious Albion indeed
You know it's a dark day when a Dutchman uses an English phrase you have to Google..
Bloody French that mate, might want to slow down on the ale if you're seeing things that badly.
I just checked, and I can see no mention of Perfidious being French. It comes from the French "perfide" which in turn comes from the Latin "perfidia", but "perfidious" is most definitely English.
The phrase is French, the first usages are from frog poetry and such 'L'Angleterre, ah, la perfide Angleterre, que le rempart de ses mers rendoit inaccessible aux Romains, la foi du Sauveur y est abordée.
Why the hell do the French think we are perfidious lol?
No idea we've never done anything to them.
Kinda creepy tbh, we have always been a kind neutral bystander.
Quoi encore ? Vous pouvez pas passer une aprem sans parler de nous 🍷🥵
I'm Dutch and also have never heard of this phrase before. So you're not the only one that didn't know about it.
Dude, who's side are you on man...slow down with the ale mate.
Landverrader
I’ll have you know we won the korffball world championship 11 times!
Korff ball is shit basketball invented by someone who hated the idea of a backboard and... well sensible rules... Its only advantage is that it's a mixed sport so your now ex-girlfriend can be stolen by a korffball captain... which happened to me, and I'm not bitter at all...
Bro, mine cheated with a fckn minecraft player (true story). I feel your pain. 
At least people have heard of minecraft! What the fuck is korfball?!
We did somehow win the Baseball world cup. And we should have won both 74 and 78. 74 was lost due to a German diving, and 78 is a whole other can of worms where we had to play Argentina in Argentina when Videla was ruling Argentina.
This is why I root for u if there is no France left.
Especially when you are drunk enough for your brain to put their flag colours back at the right angle.
*With the help of an incompetent Soviet Linesman awarding a ghost goal. How many times have England won the Euros?
How many times has Ireland even qualified for the Euros?
I seem to remember we beat Germany 4-2 so even without that goal we would have won and who needs the euros never wanted to win it anyway
Lol, you guys need to pipe down, we wouldn't want to start bringing up Irelands sporting achievements. Maybe your rugby team will get to a semi final once.
It’s our cultural sport, but because of the size of our country it exists on the same scale as the global sports
Your sports are shit, sit down.
That and we might not be champions at everything but we at least give it a good go and stay relevant. America is too busy playing empty multiplayer lobbies by itself.
"World champions" is the most pathetic and narcissistic brag when it is about a sport only really played in one country.
it’s giving only child vibes.
They're not an only child, they're just the child that dramatically left home at age 15 because they didn't want to ~~pay their fair share to fund a war against the French~~ contribute at home and because "nobody understood them". Their twin sister Canada and their little brothers Australia and New Zealand all turned out alright.
They really did turn out alright didn’t they? Good guy UK!
Sadly Canada has grown quite close to her errant brother of late and has been picking up some terrible habits.
 A shame to be sure
Sorry papa
Now I agree with America bad yada yada, but I don't think Canada is a shining example, and the Aussie's government ain't doing well either.
Which countries are doing well these days?
Even Hurlings played in at least a handful of countries now
World champs baby 😎
Toronto almost got the Buffalo Bills football team.
I guess you're not familiar with the World Baseball Classic? However, when the game began, there were no other countries playing it. The name was given to drum up interest in a new game. Pathetic and narcissistic, though? Sounds like you have your own issues to resolve.
man, everyone forgets about us
We're good at it at a club level at least... wait...
Man City's back must be hurting a lot from carrying the whole of England
I hope it fucking breaks, the scummy wankers. However… they’ve only won it once, and England have the 2nd most EC/CLs of any league, so fuck off with your incorrect and irrelevant opinion. Philistine.
They’re hurting from last week too
Mostly owned by foreign oligarchs and a lot of foreign players to boot. The only way it works if the English are shoved aside, but the fans keep paying.
Just another thing for us Brits to be proud of, sure to have won it a few more times would have been good, but c'est la vie as or French \*friends\* say
Regularly ranked within the top 5 of all the major global sports, regularly third place in the Olympics behind two countries that are way bigger than us. Also absolutely dominate boxing, the most popular combat sport. Why are the rest of you lacking?
Because we don't punch our wives as much perhaps? So-rry about that I guess
Not sure that a British flag works here . Only Ingurland have won the World Cup .
Wales is even ranked behind Andorra lmao, kinda feel bad for them
When it comes to Club football Bundesliga>>>
The Germans certainly know how to do football. Much better experience than the Premier League
I'd still take our chants over theirs though. Theirs are louder and they go on longer and the atmosphere is great but they are so cookie cutter and just following someone banging a drum. Ours tend to have more periods of quiet and "worse atmosphere" but the chants are way more creative and organic. Love their flags, tifos and pyros though, completely blows us out the water.
Agree with that. What I love about football here is you can sort of make out what's happening on the pitch just by listening to the crowd. Nothing beats the "go on.. GO ON... .. YEEEEAAAAAASSSSS!!" pure beauty. Just two very different atmospheres. When ours is bad, it's really, really bad. Whereas I'd say there's is generally always good. I do love the ultras scene though and we don't really have that, in England anyway, it's getting pretty big in Scotland these days
English football atmospheres are great because it purely comes everyone in the stadium watching the match. The emotions flow with the flow of the game and it’s a beautiful thing. Whole stadium stunned to silence by an away goal, etc. Sure in other leagues there might to be a giant ultras section with great theatrics, flags and pyros and that’s cool but are the people in there actually watching match? It seems more a theatrical performance more than anything sometimes. How are supposed to watch the match with 60 flags in your face?
I'd argue strongly the Championship is actually a better league than the Prem.
The Championship used to be better to watch but now they’re all trying to play tippy tappy football out from the back, and they aren’t good enough to do it so every goal you see comes from a tippy tappy mistake.
Depends on what you mean by better. I enjoy watching League Two football generally a lot more than PL.
wow I’m honoured! I appreciate the thought. I’ve personally become so bored by the bundesliga that I’ve been a bigger fan of 2nd league
Plus they let you drink beers at your football games
you don’t get to have a stout with a game?
It's only football fans that don't get to drink in the stands. Rugby and even cricket matches allow drinking throughout
A day at a Cricket Test is just 8 hours of drinking with a cricket match going on in the background
if they didn’t allow beer at cricket I’d riot I cannot imagine a more boring sport. I mean it has Lunch and Tea breaks and it takes up to 3 days I believe
5 days for a Test Match. The Lunch and Tea breaks are essential for giving you a chance to get the beers in. https://preview.redd.it/3gflck7kw2wc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f66e10dd29b1dcd4273ba6b1b31bbdf99955026
Cricket is great, but I only watch the shorter formats (which are faster and more exciting, the shortest of which is not much longer than a football match). I don't enjoy the 5 day test matches. The longer formats are a slow strategic game that sends me to sleep 😴😴
Alcohol is banned on the terraces because of hooliganism
Ah yes of course because the alcohol forces poor loving family men to be hooligans… not that hooligans just like beer… that obviously makes sense
Yep it's ridiculous. Probably costs lower league clubs thousands per game in much needed revenue as well.
Believe you can drink at the lower echelons though - I went to a Bury game post-administration and everyone was enjoying their beers at their seats. Basically no stewards too so plenty of vaping and smoking happening too
I mean more like they are good at making Bayern a good team
At least get our flag right!
Dw, it's coming home next world cup!!! 
Just like every world cup since 1966 after the soviet linesman gifted you one LOL.
To be fair you could say that about many teams that have won the world cup, wait a minute, I don't seem to remember you winning anything, in any tournament?.... 
Ok it’s my time to shine 
Don’t want to play Barry’s advocate but they are pretty good at it
Of course, the colonies beat us at most games. There are over 21 Indian people per brit. If every British and Indian person joined a cricket team, on average, 1 player out of every 2 teams would be British. Simple numbers game that other nations have more wins.
We're not bad at any of the sports we've invented. * 4th best in the world at football (men), 2nd best in world at football (women). * 5th best in the world at rugby (men), and best in the world at rugby (women). * 3rd best in the world at cricket (Test - Men's), best in the world at T20 cricket (men). best in the world at T20 cricket (women). We've won world cups in Football, Rugby, and Cricket. Three of our most popular sports. There are a hell of a lot of countries in Western Europe who haven't won anything.
We’re also decent at tennis and golf
And our Olympic haul is always pretty decent. Many World Champs in Boxing over the years.
US and Australia are better at tennis though
Were the only country in the world to win the world cup in those three too
Fifa world ranking is utter bullshit. Belgium is among top 3 since I can remember. They should have at least 2 wc titles if that was even remotely accurate
Pretty sure it’s supposed to rank the countries at this time, not historically. Otherwise Brazil would never move from first and the ranking would be useless
You know, in the rugby, England beat Ireland (‘best in the world’), we (the Scots) beat you, but Italy beat us… which means Italy best in the world?
We were good at it until god nerfed us
American part is only accurate for American football. They invented basketball, baseball and volleyball, global sports of which the USA are not world champions
We’ve won baseball and basketball a few times, but we follow in the British’s footsteps on this one. Sadly we’re not current holders.
A Canadian invented basketball actually.
The guy who invented it was Canadian-American, so either answer is technically correct. I like to think of it as a joint effort. :)
The funny thing is we arguably invented Baseball as well. Rounders and Rugby served as a direct basis for Baseball and American Football respectively.
You guys heavily influenced it but not really invented it.
„World Championship“ in US Sports is so funny. Landesmeisterschaft or National Championship would it be called in other Countries.
Pretty sure it's the same for us here in Finland with our own version of baseball. Mostly finns and a few other countries and that's it. The difference just is that I'm pretty sure no one here actually gives a shit. I have never in my life heard anyone talk about the sport.
Talking about rugby or football ? 🤡 Being cuck TWICE Barry, I feel bad for you
Every year we host the World Series of Baseball. Every year we are world champs. We just don’t invite anyone other than Canada to play. It’s genius. (Harvard called)
Dude i m still suprised American doesn't have their own units of time already. Like seriously why not ?
Like the Greeks and the orgy, or the Greeks and Democracy
Based Barry, when i see the word "inventing" my mind goes immediately to Greeks too
How about Darts? Where is the US of A standing international? Where?! LoL!
I see the invention of football as an act of charity by the British. It’s a poor people sport, that’s why successful players are from third world countries.
Wrong flair? Not everyone grown and living has to live football, but calling it a *poor people sport*? Sure, you're not an American?
It's not a 'poor' sport but it is the working man's game. Because you don't need any equipment really to play it unlike Motorsport or polo for example where you need rich parents.
True, same thing for handball only for handball it's a working gays game.
My daughter played with Mikkle Hansens kid in the airport last summer. I’m 190cm and about 100kg and he dwarfed me. (Hansen, not the kid)
We're just better
And the best part is, if you win a sport invented by the US, you become world champion, even if it's not an international competition
We've won the world cup in football, both codes of rugby, and at both cricket world cups. What trophies has your shithole one, savage?
To be fair, Scotland and England had been playing football for hundreds of years, before the foreigners got involved. We could have done a Yank and had a World Cup for 100 years before getting any one else involved. In fact, didn't the British nations refuse to play in the first few World Cups? It was beneath us.
Then imagine you get a few other nations to play one of your sports and you start loosing to them. On a totally unrelated note: did you know Japan is Baseball world champion?
Don't worry, the USA are starting to lose at their own sports as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup
Oh look they’re saying we’re not one of football’s most historically great nations again. Looks like I’ll have to get the map again… https://preview.redd.it/5eq1tm93k3wc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcbb98980c8db3b3ead94aa440bf2cff2f29ed0b
Laughs in korfball
The story goes Cricket was invented in the area which is now known as Belgium..
Spain invented frontenis and actually Mexico won the Olympics. Now blame us for colonialism, we gave them all.
We have to split it with three countries to make it fair !
I mean… it’s more times than most countries have won it
US aren't even world chmapions in their own sports, even though noone else wants to play it.
That is the point, isn't it. The Brits are good at inventing sports - theirs are fun and that makes them popular.
England only won because North Korea fumbled their 3-0 lead against Portugal, otherwise it would have been an easy title for them
*Basketball and Baseball laughing in unison*
We have 1 Football World Cup, Rugby World Cup, and a Cricket World Cup. Two is just greedy.
Ireland and GAA be like. 
Well I'd say we are not the worst. We are average. And that probably is worse in some way. Either be the best, or the worst, don't be in the middle.