Poll of the Day > Why call it a World Championship if it only got teams from USA? It make no sense

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80/80
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We're the only country that matters.
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To counterbalance the National Hockey League, which is technically international.
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darkknight109 posted...

To counterbalance the National Hockey League, which is technically international.

But thats a Canadian league that expanded...
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Foppe posted...

darkknight109 posted...

To counterbalance the National Hockey League, which is technically international.

But thats a Canadian league that expanded...

you mean a russian league that expanded
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

Foppe posted...

darkknight109 posted...

To counterbalance the National Hockey League, which is technically international.

But thats a Canadian league that expanded...

you mean a russian league that expanded

...no, Soviet got nothing to do with NHL...
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Foppe posted...

darkknight109 posted...

To counterbalance the National Hockey League, which is technically international.

But thats a Canadian league that expanded...

Umm... original six:
Boston
Chicago
Detroit
New York
Montreal
Toronto

So unless those first four cities seceded from Canada sometime in the 20th century...
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to be fair, in all major sports(hockey, basketball, gridiron football and baseball), no other countries league comes close in terms of talent.

Maybe hockey with the KHL? i dont know. I mean, I wouldnt throw around the world champion title unless you had a tournament where you beat other teams from other countries(similar to the uefa champions league or world cup), but a team from the US league would likely win every time.

edit: perhaps a canadian team could win in hockey or sneak one out in baseball or basketball but still mainly american leagues

Blaqthourne posted...

Foppe posted...

darkknight109 posted...

To counterbalance the National Hockey League, which is technically international.

But thats a Canadian league that expanded...

Umm... original six:
Boston
Chicago
Detroit
New York
Montreal
Toronto

So unless those first four cities seceded from Canada sometime in the 20th century...

Check your history, NHL only had four teams when it started in 1917, all Canadian.
They expanded in 1924 to include Boston.
Between 1942 and 1967, they had the Original Six teams.
NHL was already 25 years old by 1942.
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So it was. Even so, that doesn't negate the fact that it IS (present tense) an international league. Why the NHL was even brought up makes me curious since I don't ever recall them calling the Stanley Cup champions "World Champions". I could see it with the MLB.
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As a sidenote, the four first Canadian teams were Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Hockey Club, Ottawa Senators and Montreal Wanderers.
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Friends and I briefly talked about this last time. We thought it sounded odd as well. Hell, in the baseball World Series, to my understanding it is just U.S. teams despite other countries having baseball teams. Would be neat to have an actual international competition though.
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I would like that too but I feel like itll never happen, or if it does, it would be a secondary thing like the world baseball classic.

its interesting how soccer as the UEFA champions league which is considered the premier tournament(in some cases i think matters more than winning the domestic league) but that can sustain itself because top quality teams come from several leagues and not just one.

InfestedAdam posted...

Friends and I briefly talked about this last time. We thought it sounded odd as well. Hell, in the baseball World Series, to my understanding it is just U.S. teams despite other countries having baseball teams. Would be neat to have an actual international competition though.

Other countries got American Football teams as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superserien
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InfestedAdam posted...

Friends and I briefly talked about this last time. We thought it sounded odd as well. Hell, in the baseball World Series, to my understanding it is just U.S. teams despite other countries having baseball teams. Would be neat to have an actual international competition though.

World baseball classic
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Foppe posted...

Other countries got American Football teams as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superserien

Interesting. Thank you for the insight. And here I thought only the U.S. had football while everyone else had rugby.

pedro45 posted...

World baseball classic

And that just goes to show how little I know about baseball. Thanks for the insight. I knew of such a league for the Little Leagues but wasn't aware it was for Major too.
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InfestedAdam posted...

Foppe posted...
Other countries got American Football teams as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superserien

Interesting. Thank you for the insight. And here I thought only the U.S. had football while everyone else had rugby

NFL actually had a World League of American Football at the start of the 90s with 7 North American and 3 European teams.
London dominated Barcelona in the first final.
The second year had two American teams in the finals.
After that, NFL suspended the league.
3 years later the European part started over with a couple of more teams and renamed it to NFL Europe Leage, and kept it going for 12 years until 2007.

That said, we also got International Federation of American Football, or IFAF, which got over 100 member countries and hosts the IFAF World Championship every fourth year.
I think USA won the last three championships or so.
That said, it exist many more rugby leagues than American Football leagues outside NA.
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