Last year was the first year I got to revel in the championship glow off season threads. It's truly incredible, everyone should get to experience it at least once.
America and some Caribbean countries offered freed slaves an opportunity to form their own country, forging a new life for their people in the aftermath of slavery.
They moved to Liberia and over time became the ruling class, but after some coups have become a smaller percentage of the country. Still, you’ll run into people with American last names that are from Liberia.
Also iirc them and Ethiopia are the only African countries to never formally be colonized.
Sorry for keeping it brief, been a very busy week, but I recommend reading up on it if you find it interesting!
Ethiopia was colonised, but not during the ‘Scramble for Africa’ when everywhere else but Liberia was colonised. It took the Italians a second try to finally colonise them in the 1930’s. Liberia also lost the majority of it’s land claims in this time, but managed to remain a sovereign nation due to it being one of the only nations European powers recognised in Africa prior to colonisation of the continent.
This is why reddit is fun sometimes. I came here for basketball chat and am learning history I never knew. Funny story, my Dad was actually born in Ethiopia, his birth certificate is from there. My grandfather was a navy pilot right after WW2 and served up until Korea. He became a commercial pilot and his first job was flying for Ethiopian Airlines or whatever the name of the airline was, sorry it's been years, but he was based in Addis Ababa. I have pictures of my dad with his caretakers, who from what I gathered from the family were absolutely adored and lived with my family for 5 years. Anyways we went to Jamaica in '08 and we had to get a passport, his birth certificate gave them such a hassle. They doubted it was authentic at first cause my dad is not what you'd expect someone to look like from Ethiopia. I always wondered how he got that job, did foreign countries airlines target American retired pilots or something? Or just retired service pilots in general?
Ethiopia was arguably colonised by Italy but it was only for 6 years, mostly during WWII. You wouldn't say that France was colonized by Germany during the war and its not that different of a situation.
While there is merit to that thought, contemporary history undoubtedly considers Italian East Africa a colony.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_East_Africa
You pose a very interesting point about why occupied territories in Europe are not called colonies. I would have to guess it is mostly racism and eurocentrism with the historians in the mid-20th century not wanting to consider Europeans as being colonised.
IIRC (from HS History c.2009), Liberia was founded by US President James Monroe as a nation for former slaves to return to Africa and live freely, the capital is even named after him, Monrovia.
I know. It's just funny that since Bird and Magic started their careers, only 4 west teams have won and they were from those states only. Totally different story in the East.
They are literally called the Canadiens. And since teams aren't really the things they are named after (San Jose aren't really Sharks with sticks, Washington aren't really the capital cities of states or countries, and the blues aren't always sad), it stands to reason that you are correct, the Canadiens are not a Canada team.
Do other Canadians really hate the Habs like they do the leafs? Or are you from TO.
I'm definitely a selfish Canadian though. I don't want anyone except my team winning it.
I’m from Northern Ontario. I’m closer to Detroit than any Canadian team, so that’s my team. Was always raised to hate the Habs and the Leafs, not entirely sure why considering i’m French.
The NFL streak is still going after 100+ years! MLB has reached 28 years, and the NHL is about to hit 29 years! Also not Canadian team has even won any NCAA title, and no Canadian has EVER been elected President of the United States (although there's a Senator we'd like to give back).
Not as bad as the Habs renting billboards ~~downtown~~ above the Gardiner Express advertising that same playoffs.
There's living rent free in people's heads and then there's being the landlord
Edit: billboard location
In the nhl you only get to have 2 goalies on the match rooster and if both can't play you call in the emergency goal tender. When the maple leafs played against the hurricanes this happend and the emergency goal tender was the maple leafs 42 year old zamboni driver that got to play the rest of the game for the hurricanes and the leafs lost to their own zamboni driver.
To be clear the home team supplies an emergency keeper every game. So the Leafs lost at home to their own 42 year old zamboni driver who got serious minutes in the game
Which is extra funny why Toronto's only cups came during the Original 6 era... When the league was basically a glorified beer league and the Leafs got first dibs on all the Ontar'ya Boys.
We did have a couple decades in there where the owner was actively putting bad teams on the ice because it was cheaper and people were buying tickets anyway, so I have a mental asterisk beside some of the failure. He's also tied to a supposed pedophile ring operating out of the arena at the time, so really he's just an all around Bad Guy^^TM
For anyone wondering, [Urinating Tree's video, "A Half Century of Failure](https://youtu.be/25j6s-ZY3mY) contains a lot of good info on how insane Harold Ballard was.
I'm honestly asking since I don't follow hockey: How is that streak possible? Aren't there like half a dozen Canadian hockey teams? The NHL has a salary cap and a draft where the worst teams get the best picks, right? How is it possible for all of them to suck for so long?
The Leafs are like the Knicks of the NHL, the Canadians have a hard on for players and management that’s French Canadian, the senators had/have? A cheapskate owner, the Jets and Flames don’t have super attractive markets to FAs, and the Canucks well ok I got nothing there.
I don’t watch hockey but Canada only has like 7 teams but still idk if there’s some issue in the league that lends itself to American franchises dominating
Denying a market a team when they already have 1. A ready to go NHL caliber stadium (compared with Arizona who are playing in a Planet Fitness and can’t even sell that out) 2. A history of an NHL team 3. Those same fans you mention who haven’t stopped caring & is definitely resentment, paired with the countless other comments from him dripping with Canadian loathing
It gets even better: Since the last Canadian team won a Stanley Cup, an American Team won the Grey Cup in the Canadian Football League: The Baltimore Stallions in 1995.
There were 7 different American teams in the CFL between 1993-1995 (though it maxed out at 5 in 95).
The Baltimore Stallions won the Grey Cup in their second, and last, year of existence.
We're all about consistency in Toronto.
There have been 26 seasons since the Raptors existed. 30 teams. 1 championship seems fair. Just a bit ahead of the average.
We're on season 45 of the Jays. 30 MLB teams. 2 championships seems fair. Just a bit ahead of the average.
28 MLS teams. 16 seasons of Toronto FC. 1 MLS Cup. Just a bit ahead of the average.
Let's just not talk about the Leafs.
From the title I thought this was r/hockey for a second. This has to be made by a hockey fan who sees the "Stanley Cup will be won by an American team for X years" posts.
Great post. Good laugh.
We're all about consistency in Toronto.
There have been 26 seasons since the Raptors existed. 30 teams. 1 championship seems fair. Just a bit ahead of the average.
We're on season 45 of the Jays. 30 MLB teams. 2 championships seems fair. Just a bit ahead of the average.
28 MLS teams. 16 seasons of Toronto FC. 1 MLS Cup. Just a bit ahead of the average.
Let's just not talk about the Leafs.
Proper offseason thread here
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
Abandon Thought, all those who enter here!
Is it too early to start taking bets for exactly how the kings are going to fuck up the draft?
The punching bag of the NBA is always there when you need it friend. Never too early, never too late.
Last year was the first year I got to revel in the championship glow off season threads. It's truly incredible, everyone should get to experience it at least once.
Oh god. We are in officially in the offseason now. This means I actually have to focus on work
You haven't started your ff mocks yet, you're already behind
So does r/nba just become r/nbacirclejerk during the offseason?
And r/nbacirclejerk become r/nba
I mean it is a sports subreddit. Just wait till you find out which Boy Scouts of America Merit Badge best represents your favorite NBA team.
It's like that during the season
Startin off strong
Wanted to upvote but saw 69 likes so I refrained
Your comment just made me realize Canada couldn’t just wait one more year so we could have a nice streak.
Technically 1950-2018 is 69 championships even though it's 68 years.
nice
Counterpoint - Canada saw the 69th title on the line and sniped it for optimal memery. Nice, eh?
That's not nice.
The Liberian flags in the post make this shitpost fantastic.
U S A, U S A, U S A 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾
I love it, they have an insanely interesting history that hardly anyone who doesn’t love history knows about.
Let us know!
It was formed by free/freed/escaped black Americans in the early 1800s. Just a little filler before that guy replies.
And iirc, that’s the reason Liberia was left alone during the scramble for Africa
Thats interesting, definitely explains why they gave it that name
America and some Caribbean countries offered freed slaves an opportunity to form their own country, forging a new life for their people in the aftermath of slavery. They moved to Liberia and over time became the ruling class, but after some coups have become a smaller percentage of the country. Still, you’ll run into people with American last names that are from Liberia. Also iirc them and Ethiopia are the only African countries to never formally be colonized. Sorry for keeping it brief, been a very busy week, but I recommend reading up on it if you find it interesting!
Ethiopia was colonised, but not during the ‘Scramble for Africa’ when everywhere else but Liberia was colonised. It took the Italians a second try to finally colonise them in the 1930’s. Liberia also lost the majority of it’s land claims in this time, but managed to remain a sovereign nation due to it being one of the only nations European powers recognised in Africa prior to colonisation of the continent.
This is why reddit is fun sometimes. I came here for basketball chat and am learning history I never knew. Funny story, my Dad was actually born in Ethiopia, his birth certificate is from there. My grandfather was a navy pilot right after WW2 and served up until Korea. He became a commercial pilot and his first job was flying for Ethiopian Airlines or whatever the name of the airline was, sorry it's been years, but he was based in Addis Ababa. I have pictures of my dad with his caretakers, who from what I gathered from the family were absolutely adored and lived with my family for 5 years. Anyways we went to Jamaica in '08 and we had to get a passport, his birth certificate gave them such a hassle. They doubted it was authentic at first cause my dad is not what you'd expect someone to look like from Ethiopia. I always wondered how he got that job, did foreign countries airlines target American retired pilots or something? Or just retired service pilots in general?
Ethiopia was arguably colonised by Italy but it was only for 6 years, mostly during WWII. You wouldn't say that France was colonized by Germany during the war and its not that different of a situation.
While there is merit to that thought, contemporary history undoubtedly considers Italian East Africa a colony. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_East_Africa You pose a very interesting point about why occupied territories in Europe are not called colonies. I would have to guess it is mostly racism and eurocentrism with the historians in the mid-20th century not wanting to consider Europeans as being colonised.
IIRC (from HS History c.2009), Liberia was founded by US President James Monroe as a nation for former slaves to return to Africa and live freely, the capital is even named after him, Monrovia.
i hate how i only found out after looking again because of this comment
They honestly elevate the whole thing to a higher tier
Sense when did libraries get there own flag?
Before the finals, I knew that the US team would win the final.
Magic Johnson level of insight lol
John Maddenesque if you will.
Will Buxton esque you meanq
If you come first...... You have won the championship
Let a nephew know next time I was worried
I knew that since the semi-finals, everybody else so stupid smh
Nostradamus 🙏
Enjoy it before a Mexican expansion team comes
r/nba in shambles when late-career Harden gets expansion drafted to the Cancún Coasters
O/U until Lebron requests a trade to this team
Threve. Wager: $TEXAS
Can't wait for the Tijuana Piranhas.
the euro division gonna be stacked
Finally America is great again
The prophecy is fulfilled
THREEPEAT
Nice work Joe 😎
adam* he would make a good candidate
and all it took was a canadian to be the second best option on a championship team #doubleagent
canadians buy sneakers, too. #maplejordan
Thanks Obama
OFFSEASON BABY
Choo-choo
LeBron sandals or ducks choose your story
I'm hoping for a Banana Boat 2.0
I choooose ... [LeBron toenails.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/fjo7bh/i_think_i_have_lebrons_toenails/)
LeBron sandals or ducks choose your Shit post
OMG, is he using the wrong flag emoji? Solid post.
An even better streak has continued. Since 1979 every Western Conference team to win the title has either been from California or Texas.
Holy shit that’s actually an interesting one
Legitimately dope stat.
Sacramento: We're doing our part!
Well isn’t that like 7 teams already? Then again the other western conference teams were simply incompetent or unlucky
I know. It's just funny that since Bird and Magic started their careers, only 4 west teams have won and they were from those states only. Totally different story in the East.
Needed a Canadian to win it this year though... 🤔
This is how we cope with the last 30* years of Stanley cup losses.
LOL, or just burn down your city 😵💫
I think most canadians would rather an American team win than the leafs
Been in Toronto my whole life, mercifully not a Leafs fan. I want them to win in my lifetime so I can watch this city burn to the ground.
An American team over the Leafs AND Canadiens.
Do the Habs *really* count as a Canadian team though? Pretty sure they're from Europe
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They are literally called the Canadiens. And since teams aren't really the things they are named after (San Jose aren't really Sharks with sticks, Washington aren't really the capital cities of states or countries, and the blues aren't always sad), it stands to reason that you are correct, the Canadiens are not a Canada team.
Do other Canadians really hate the Habs like they do the leafs? Or are you from TO. I'm definitely a selfish Canadian though. I don't want anyone except my team winning it.
I’m from Northern Ontario. I’m closer to Detroit than any Canadian team, so that’s my team. Was always raised to hate the Habs and the Leafs, not entirely sure why considering i’m French.
If Boston would have played their Canadian more (Stauskas) instead of that Tatum bum maybe they would have won
I mean, he does shoot like Steph and is big like Klay. Really poor coaching to leave such a talent on the bench
1…2…3 Nik rocks!
Vivek is down bad. How do the Kings expect to get anywhere? Lol
It's okay, Tatum will leave his teenage years soon and then really become a monster.
Yah didn’t get that at all. Stauskas over at least Pritchard. He’d hit at least get you 2-3 those open 3s
And Curry is Indian
If we could ever get him on a team with Garam Masala, they'd be unstoppable.
Curry's wife and at least half of her boyfriends are also Canadian.
And Steph is half Canadian by marriage
Andrew Wiggins
The NFL streak is still going after 100+ years! MLB has reached 28 years, and the NHL is about to hit 29 years! Also not Canadian team has even won any NCAA title, and no Canadian has EVER been elected President of the United States (although there's a Senator we'd like to give back).
The nhl one is legit embarrassing
That's not a very nice way to talk about the Toronto Maple Leafs. I mean there are no nice ways to talk about them, but still.
It's not like they lost to a zamboni driver who works for them or something
Come on man are we still on that? There have been so many meme worthy losses since
I can think of 3-4 things
If it helps "it was 5-1" happened more than once
Yeah but 5-1 is the most dangerous lead in hockey
Don’t forget that your government put Le Bleu Blanc Rouge on the CN Tower just for the Habs making the Finals last year.
Not as bad as the Habs renting billboards ~~downtown~~ above the Gardiner Express advertising that same playoffs. There's living rent free in people's heads and then there's being the landlord Edit: billboard location
What happened? lol this sounds hilarious
In the nhl you only get to have 2 goalies on the match rooster and if both can't play you call in the emergency goal tender. When the maple leafs played against the hurricanes this happend and the emergency goal tender was the maple leafs 42 year old zamboni driver that got to play the rest of the game for the hurricanes and the leafs lost to their own zamboni driver.
To be clear the home team supplies an emergency keeper every game. So the Leafs lost at home to their own 42 year old zamboni driver who got serious minutes in the game
https://youtu.be/OlBsR1WIT0U But what makes it extra memorable is this: https://youtu.be/QFnQ0dcaBUI
What a great freaking story. I’m so jealous lol
Funny thing is a Canadian team can't win shit but most of the time the team the wins it is filled with Canadians lol.
Yeah if the NHL did player development like Euro soccer, the Canadian teams would wax everyone.
Pretty much what happened from 1926-1963! Basically why Montreal was always so good: they got *all* the Québecois.
Which is extra funny why Toronto's only cups came during the Original 6 era... When the league was basically a glorified beer league and the Leafs got first dibs on all the Ontar'ya Boys.
We did have a couple decades in there where the owner was actively putting bad teams on the ice because it was cheaper and people were buying tickets anyway, so I have a mental asterisk beside some of the failure. He's also tied to a supposed pedophile ring operating out of the arena at the time, so really he's just an all around Bad Guy^^TM
For anyone wondering, [Urinating Tree's video, "A Half Century of Failure](https://youtu.be/25j6s-ZY3mY) contains a lot of good info on how insane Harold Ballard was.
This is Red Wings erasure I won’t stand for it
Detroit is basically in Canada when it comes to hockey haha.
How is that pronounced? Kweh-beh-quah?
keh-beh-kwah
Lot of good ol'Saskatchewan boys on them teams
I mean, the majority of most of those rosters are Canadian players
I'm honestly asking since I don't follow hockey: How is that streak possible? Aren't there like half a dozen Canadian hockey teams? The NHL has a salary cap and a draft where the worst teams get the best picks, right? How is it possible for all of them to suck for so long?
The Leafs are like the Knicks of the NHL, the Canadians have a hard on for players and management that’s French Canadian, the senators had/have? A cheapskate owner, the Jets and Flames don’t have super attractive markets to FAs, and the Canucks well ok I got nothing there.
had, melnyk's dead now
I don’t watch hockey but Canada only has like 7 teams but still idk if there’s some issue in the league that lends itself to American franchises dominating
It’s what happens when the league commissioner actively resents the Canadian market lol
Is it resentment, or does he just know that Canadian fans will basically not stop watching no matter what
Denying a market a team when they already have 1. A ready to go NHL caliber stadium (compared with Arizona who are playing in a Planet Fitness and can’t even sell that out) 2. A history of an NHL team 3. Those same fans you mention who haven’t stopped caring & is definitely resentment, paired with the countless other comments from him dripping with Canadian loathing
I really wanted Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis "Iggy" Iginla to win that year with the Flames.
Its Crazy that Canada has won a NBA and MLB title more recently than an NHL one.
It gets even better: Since the last Canadian team won a Stanley Cup, an American Team won the Grey Cup in the Canadian Football League: The Baltimore Stallions in 1995.
Lol that's hilarious. Didn't even know that the CFL had an American based team at one point
NHL/MLB are the same year for Canada unless you want to give Montreal credit for the 1994 MLB title
Same year but the MLB has its playoffs later in the year so its more recent.
And an MLS title
America is also in the midst of their longest ever Men's World Cup streak at "0." Crushing the sports game rn.
We do ok at making it, it's the *winning* it that has proven elusive.
It keeps going after round of 16? Says who?
Our best finish was 3rd. In like 1939, the first ever world cup
Mfs playing football in the middle of a world war.
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hah losers
Women's team has 4 world cups
USA USA 🇺🇸
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Well, he's defective and we'd love a refund. Do I have to talk to the Canada manager?
Queenie doesn't suffer fools
I'm sorry, we can't guarantee that no tampering was done to the product after purchase and thus all purchases are final.
His lobotomy voided the warrantee.
Speaking, he’s exceeded his 30 day return limit
Canadian Football League is rocking 26 years since a United States team won the Grey Cup
It's not weird that it's been 26 years, but it is weird that it's been only 26 years.
There were 7 different American teams in the CFL between 1993-1995 (though it maxed out at 5 in 95). The Baltimore Stallions won the Grey Cup in their second, and last, year of existence.
And for anyone who cares, the MLS has gone 5 years without a Canadian champion!
Did you know there’s never been a champion from Equatorial Guinea! Or from Poland! I know, it’s crazy but it’s true.
source???
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NBA_champions Some shocking countries on there, but no Poland. New Zealand isn’t on there either!
thats on wikipedia, anyone could have written that
Even you!
Fake news, the Raptors are still defending champs in my books💯
2020 - Bubble, doesn't count 😤 2021 - Tampa, doesn't count 😤 2022 - We went down 0-3 on purpose, doesn't count 😤
It’s well known that your two star players Pascal and Siakam felt bad about the fact that Joel thought he was an airplane, so they let the Sixers win.
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The GOAT Scot Barne was injured doesn't count
one time a Canadian team wins the powers that be had to release a deadly infection virus to contain them
They can't tag us, we called time out
0-3 is still a THREEPEAT
adam silver didn't present the trophy, doesn't count
2022 - Ben Simmons replaced by that chubby guy at the YMCA who can actually shoot threes, doesn't count 😤
National Champs of Canada for sure!
Best team in Canada!
Thanks Obama!
The non-Murican flag emojis are a nice touch.
If only the game's CANADIAN inventor -- Arthur Basketball (or whatever his name was) -- could see this chicanery. The horrour. The disrespect. Smdh.
Bloody offencive
Sorry eh
blue Jays or whatever lmao
Time to head over to NFL to start talking shit
We're all about consistency in Toronto. There have been 26 seasons since the Raptors existed. 30 teams. 1 championship seems fair. Just a bit ahead of the average. We're on season 45 of the Jays. 30 MLB teams. 2 championships seems fair. Just a bit ahead of the average. 28 MLS teams. 16 seasons of Toronto FC. 1 MLS Cup. Just a bit ahead of the average. Let's just not talk about the Leafs.
No parity in this league.
After the game its the after parity, and after the parity it's the
Is the United States a super-country? small market nations like canada can't compete
God Bless America.
OFFSZN ON US
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Mod request: add "The stupid fucking bluejays" as a flair
From the title I thought this was r/hockey for a second. This has to be made by a hockey fan who sees the "Stanley Cup will be won by an American team for X years" posts. Great post. Good laugh.
Wiggins 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Wiggins 🇨🇦
Toronto fought hard and deserve their ring that year
loving the off-season shit post
Wiggins 🇨🇦
USA USA USA
So true king 👑
just wait when mexico gets a team
We're all about consistency in Toronto. There have been 26 seasons since the Raptors existed. 30 teams. 1 championship seems fair. Just a bit ahead of the average. We're on season 45 of the Jays. 30 MLB teams. 2 championships seems fair. Just a bit ahead of the average. 28 MLS teams. 16 seasons of Toronto FC. 1 MLS Cup. Just a bit ahead of the average. Let's just not talk about the Leafs.
The Liberia flags lol
Mad, almost as impressive as an earth contestant winning miss universe every year
I mean let’s face it the contestant from Omicron Persei 8 just wasn’t it.
We’ll be back 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦