Zebulon Dak
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By the way, the 2 aren't mutually exclusive. We're the Super Bowl champions any way you slice it. That just also happens to make us CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD.
sdog1981":3tmlne1u said:Since few other countries play american rules football. I say world champs. BUT Basketball and Baseball they can not call themselves world champs because they have full pro leagues in other countries.
RolandDeschain":1k7r1x8q 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":1k7r1x8q 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.
Hawknballs":1ttzk0v6 said:If I'm a vacuum salesman, but I only sell in the US, and yet I still sell more vacuums than anyone else on the planet, am I the leading vacuum salesman in the world or just the US because that's the only place I do business?
stop being so overly PC. There is nothing ignorant or arrogant about saying you are world champs after winning at the highest level in a sport simply because other countries are unable and/or uninterested in playing.
TDOTSEAHAWK":38k0au6u said:I always felt the World Champion designation should go to a national team rather than a club team.
In soccer, there is something called the Champions League which is for the best club teams in Europe. Technically, the winner, like the Seahawks, could beat any soccer team in the world, no one calls them World Champs.
For the record, there are still American Football teams in Europe and of course the CFL, so although the Seahawks would wipe them, they haven't.
Hawknballs":1r18ec91 said:If I'm a vacuum salesman, but I only sell in the US, and yet I still sell more vacuums than anyone else on the planet, am I the leading vacuum salesman in the world or just the US because that's the only place I do business?
stop being so overly PC. There is nothing ignorant or arrogant about saying you are world champs after winning at the highest level in a sport simply because other countries are unable and/or uninterested in playing.
One country? There is the CFL and NFL Europe. Any of the best teams there would get killed by us.theENGLISHseahawk":126050cv 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.
Take it easy on them. They are just venting their frustrations early in preparation for England choking in the World Cup again. For being "their sport" they sure choke on the greatest stage a lot.RolandDeschain":2vbixvt6 said:All these angry soccer fans need to chillax. You want to be world champs in this sport, start & support a league in your part of the planet.
Wayne Rooney kinda does.RolandDeschain":2sif3eyj said:Do they have any leaders on their team that look like Peyton Manning?