Seahawks1983
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theascension":3t7340uj said:America is not the world. Period.
This man is obviously a Communist!
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theascension":3t7340uj said:America is not the world. Period.
White Devil":1g0fwze1 said:
RolandDeschain":3jdw1jsy said:By this "logic", there's no such thing as a futbol/soccer world champion, either; because not every single country in the world competes in it.
Give me a break. If it's the highest possible stage of the sport that exists anywhere in the world, and you win it, then you are the world champions.
Seahawks1983":33rbzqgo said:Technically there is a Club World Cup, so there is a club world champion.
RolandDeschain":3vnj1iec said:Seahawks1983":3vnj1iec said:Technically there is a Club World Cup, so there is a club world champion.
Aye, but you get my point. The implication previously in this thread is that since it's not a sport played around the world, it can't have a "world" champion. What's the requirement, then? 71.385% of the countries in the world must participate? 40%? Etc.
There are tiny countries without official sports teams, so there can't be a "world champion" for any sport if it's defined as you are better than the rest of the world. Those arguing against the use of the phrase "world champion" for the Seahawks right now need to define a minimum percentage of the number of countries around the world that participate in trying to win the Lombardi, and justify why they chose that percentage.
Jesus, I hate that I had to type this out, haha.
Either way, you're excluding people & countries if you don't have 100% of the countries in the world competing; just different scales.Seahawks1983":25wrm6nf said:The difference though is that a multi national tournament to decide a champion actually exists, so there is a World Champion.
For the purposes of the NFL, no one else plays it, so the champ is the World Champion.
You could invent your own sport, play it with your buddies, and crown the winner World Champion if you wanted to.
RolandDeschain":xn3miffn said:Either way, you're excluding people & countries if you don't have 100% of the countries in the world competing; just different scales.Seahawks1983":xn3miffn said:The difference though is that a multi national tournament to decide a champion actually exists, so there is a World Champion.
For the purposes of the NFL, no one else plays it, so the champ is the World Champion.
You could invent your own sport, play it with your buddies, and crown the winner World Champion if you wanted to.
KiwiHawk":2shmamrs 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.
KiwiHawk":3ty5ndmt 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.