And may I return the compliment that your logic is almost mccain-ian!
I made my point and you haven’t the ammunition to fire back.
Likewise with the election of the President of the United States of America, that position is widely acknowledged as being the most powerful IN THE WORLD. Can others from other nations compete for this job? No, although the democrats HAVE made the argument that such a powerful job SHOULD have the input of the entire world. And look at the Supreme Court judges who now want to base decisions on our Constitution on other country’s laws!
It (American football) is OUR game and if we want to call the best team the “world champions”, too bad!
In Baseball, we have a “World Series” and teams from the United States AND Canada compete! Does that make you feel better? If Japan wanted to compete, I am sure that MLB would consider teams there, too! The problem is that distance makes traveling and playing times unrealistic for our games there and their games here. In the mean time, we will just continue to hire THEIR best players and bring them here. Can you say Hideki Matsui? The team he played for in Japan was the Yomiuri Giants in Tokyo, a team that is nicknamed by those IN Japan, “The New York Yankee’s of Japan”!
Look, you have your views and the rest of the world has mine.
Ha! Just a little joke. No harm intended.
Now, if you pull that “clintonian” crap line again, I’ll meet you in back in the alley and we can have a more “intensive” discussion.
Thank you for the spirited debate.
Being an Arizonan, and ashamed to have McCain as a senator, your remark was, unwittingly, a low blow.....:-)
If you want to talk about other American Sports and their position as “World Champions” let’s talk Basketball, there are several nations represented in NBA just as there are in the NFL and MLB. And each year the winners of The NBA Playoffs jump up and down and pronounce themselves “World Champions”.
The trouble with that is - they are not!
Spain is the current World Champion of Basketball.
There is a World Championship held every 4 years sanctioned by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and Spain are the current (2006) champions.
However, USA are now the current number 1 ranked nation, followed by Argentina then Spain, so things are improving.
There are 73 countries in the FIBA rankings. If I remember correctly, the US loaded their 2006 squad with some serious talent for the competition but STILL didn’t win it.
Why do I bring this up? Because, while we all recognize that the NBA is the finest league in the world, it isn’t the ONLY source of talent. And while the NBA may attract the best from all over the world, it is a domestic league with it’s own domestic championship and that event should be called what it is, especially when there is already an International event for the whole world to challenge each other.
The same is true for the NFL. Yes, they are the best teams and the best talent, but you can’t have a World Championship where you exclude the rest of the world from competing.
That sounds more like Hitler’s Olympics to me
But, of course, if you want to call yourselves “World Champions” then go ahead, you can call yorselves what you damn well like, but it’s about as hollow a claim as John McCain calling himself a conservative.