RolandDeschain
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Sigh @ Kiwi.
Zebulon Dak":craaxmz9 said:If any other country in the world wants to put together a team that can challenge the Seahawks for the Super Bowl title and win then we won't be world champions. Until then we're the best goddam football team in the world and IMO that makes us World Champions.
Seahawks1983":1paihclh said:KiwiHawk":1paihclh said:The Seahawks are a regional team in the United States, not a National team, therefore they can't be World Champions. If they were a National team competing with other National teams around the world, then they could call themselves World Champions.
It's only a technicality of course, but the NFL is not even an international game, apart from the Bills being from Canada and the Seahawks being from Egypt.
Americans in general don't get the concept, because the pinnacle level of all of their major sports is played on the National level, not the World level. But like the metric system, that's not the way the rest of the world works. The rest of the world plays in international competitions to determine the World Champs.
Americans get the concept, we just don't give a shit.
TruHammer07":302xmt61 said:I cringe every time I hear world champions applied to the NFL, NBA and MLB. With the exception of a few games in Toronto these are national leagues, not international. It's plain wrong to designate them world champions. I would chalk it up to plain ole American ignorance. The Stanley cup champion is rarely referred to as world champions. Certainly not by any players. There are world championships and Olympics and world cups to designate world championships. None of the major 4 should claim these titles. My apologies to any American readers.
Zebulon Dak":20tqbx9l said:If any other country in the world wants to put together a team that can challenge the Seahawks for the Super Bowl title and win then we won't be world champions. Until then we're the best goddam football team in the world and IMO that makes us World Champions.
It's not true that we are so concerned with what Americans think any more than you are "so concerned" over the guy who makes a fool out of himself on FailBlog. We simply facepalm and occasionally respond when someone like the OP asks for the "more appropriate" designation. Since the Seahawks don't play the world, the "more appropriate" term is "Super Bowl Champions".White Devil":3ri6q8ra said:See that's just it. Non-Americans are so concerned with what Americans think. You can have Cricket World Champions, Ping Pong World Champions, Curling World Champions, or even Tiddly Wink World Champions if that's a sport in some country, and guess what?
WE DON'T CARE.
The Seattle Seahawks are World Champions :229031_thewave:
You notice what league we don't do that with? MLS. You know why? Because nobody can make a case that the winner of the MLS Cup is the best soccer squad in the world. But it's easy to make the case that the Seahawks/Heat/whoever is the best. There's a basketball team somewhere that's going to beat Miami in a 7-game series? Seriously?TruHammer07":32b526bg said:I cringe every time I hear world champions applied to the NFL, NBA and MLB.
theENGLISHseahawk":3l0pa64a said:The whole 'World Champions' thing gets brought up by every non-NFL fan in the UK.
And to be fair, there's nothing I can say in response.
When only one country plays the sport, you can't boast about being 'world' champions.