[crazikev]

Raine,Aug 19 2005, 01:10 AM Wrote:

crazikev,Aug 19 2005, 01:02 AM Wrote:Baseball was made in Canada
[right][snapback]134001[/snapback][/right]

Nope. It's a purely English game. Evolved in the mid-US out of Rounders. As for American Football, it's origins are debatable... many people say it's a mix between rugby and gaelic football, others say it's a French adaptation of Rugby, still others claim the early Americans thought it up themselves (in which case they were of English decent and thus it in a way came out of England).

To say they don't like hockey because they don't grow up playing it is a little iffy. A shitload of Americans play football (soccer) growing up in local leagues where it can be played all year round (unlike up here, unless you count indoor soccer). Despite that, only recently has American league football been making any noise, and even then, it would be less than what lacrosse generates up here. Hard to say really..
[right][snapback]134003[/snapback][/right]

Largest coverup EVER! Sure it evolved from rounders, BUT the first RECORDED time a game of baseball was actually played with rules that closely resemble the game today was in Beachville ONT. in 1839. Alexander Cairtwright found out about it and a year later he played a game and then claimed he was the inventor, later on Doubleday came along and then said that he created it. in 1905 there was a investigation to find out who the creator of it was by the US government, and then since baseball was so popular in the US(demmed the "National Pastime" in the 1860's) back then it would be a National Catastrophy to find out that the game was played in Canada first so they made the Canadian game dissapear and then claimed that Cairtwright invented the game. Same thing with football, the first recorded game of modern football with rules that closely represnt the game today was played at some University in Montreal.


As to the hockey part, thats just a theory, maybe cause all the anouncers in the US suck, and the US broadcasts all bastardize the game with glowing pucks and crap like that. Or maybe at the moment there isn't realy any Super star playing, sure theres Mario Lemuieu(sp?) and hes a great player but his career has been plagued by stuff. Theres not really a Wayne Gretzky(don't get me wrong i kinda dislike him) in the leugue anymore that gets people excited that when they come to town are going to see one of the greatest atheletes of all time.

A select number of places in the US, hockey is flourishing where it has caught on, and where it hasn't its pretty much dead. Why did it die off? Probably because the fans didn't really get to understand everything about it, and then when they want to learn more the media comes along and turns their attention to other things like baseball and football. And why can't they go and find some hockey by themselves, cause people are lazy and have short attention spans.

Lets face it, sometimes its hard to think about hockey when its 30C outside.