Yes, for some reason, I didn't see your reply when you posted it.
if you don’t like it too bad, go make your own world champions.
No I wouldn't do that because it devalues the term "World Champion" which was my point in the first place.
The NFL wants it both ways.
Either, Football IS a world sport, in which case you shouldn't exclude the other participating countries from entering the "World Championship" or it ISN'T a world sport, in which case a "World Championship" is a meaningless title.
You are confusing the "best in the world" with "world champions". They are frequently NOT the same thing - that's why we hold World Championships instead of just working it out from the form book - Look at The Patriots last year, on form they were the best, but they lost The Super Bowl.
I used to race sailboats in World Championship competition all over the planet. That was competition, frequently held in a strange and new place, against 100 plus world class competitors (several of whom were National Champions in their own countries). You had to deal with foreign food, different cultures, jet lag, language barriers, and any number of other issues as you tried to perform at your best.
Those were real world championships, they had all the components and conditions of such. If you won, there was no dispute that you had won a World Championship, in a neutral venue, against all comers from all over the World and you could rightly call yourself "World Champion". We also had Regional, National, European, and Far Eastern Championships.. again, they had the components that validated their status, and if you won you could feel rightly proud.
But the NFL's scheme is just a scam, it's intended to hype up the status of a domestic competition with socialist type "feel good" self-esteem in order to maximize their take.
The term “world champion” has no value, that’s the problem wit your point. It’s just a couple of words thrown together periodically by various sports/ competition groups to label this year’s winner of something.
the NFL doesn’t want it EITHER of the ways you’re discussing. They’ve got their league, they’ve got their playoffs, they’ve got their winner, they call their winner the World Champions because it’s their winner and they can call them whatever the hell they want.
Sorry but I’m not confusing anything. Nowhere did I ever say anything that even vaguely hints that I think “world champ” is the same as best in the world. That would be YOUR confusion actually when you were complaining that the Phillies couldn’t possibly be World Champions because the US baseball team lost in the WBC. Out here in reality where people understand sports we know that the World Champion (or league champion, or whatever the label is) isn’t even necessarily the best team in that league that year. My Steelers are the World Champions of the NFL but they weren’t the best team in the league for the 2008 season, that would go probably to the Tennessee Titans, my the Steelers won the playoff games necessary to get to the Super Bowl and won the Super Bowl and therefore ARE the WORLD CHAMPIONS whether you or the Titans like it or not.
Sorry but the sailing competition is just as silly to label a world champion as anybody else. Sailing competitions take a really long time, and often run in a challenge cup format which lets the previous winner set the rules, which tends to make things kind of stupid.
There’s no scam or scheme. The problem here is that you put way more weight into the words “world champion” than they deserve. It’s a silly thing to get upset over. The NFL, and the MLB, and your sailing group, and FIFA, and anybody else who feels like it, get to declare get to declare a World Champion in their league for all the same reason:
it’s their league
it’s their champion
they get to call them whatever they want
And if you don’t like it that’s not their problem.