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USA or Australia: What country has the better sporting culture?
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Feel sorry for the youngsters today. When I was a kid I had 5 hours of WWOS to consume. These days it's 5 hours it's masterchef reruns!!
David Hill was pretty wise to take overseas concepts and introduce them to Australian TV.
Everytime i hear ZZ Tops''LEGS' I think of classic catches.
David Hill was pretty wise to take overseas concepts and introduce them to Australian TV.
Everytime i hear ZZ Tops''LEGS' I think of classic catches.
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In country NSW/QLD I'd say the comparison would be pretty fair
it was an amazing time for the NBL, i remember a final series between the Giants and Magic in the mid 90's being very popular.
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Depends what you mean by better. The US has a far more encompassing and developed sporting culture, but to me that's a bad thing. The more we move towards it, the more I fall out of love with sport.
I like my sport in moderation. All that Friday Night Lights s**t, I find more scary than good.
I like my sport in moderation. All that Friday Night Lights s**t, I find more scary than good.
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Friday Night Lights is an awesome TV series
AFL definitely influenced by America with wanting to move the AFL grand final to night so certain things will look better on tv.
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The Super Bowl and World Series were originally played during the day, but they both moved it to night after they realized they could get more viewers. It makes sense why the AFL would be wanting to do the same thing.
just got to make sure that all the VFL Grandpas at AFL house have retired/moved on before a night GF can go ahead
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It's not about making it "look better".
yet commentators always mention how good the MCG would look for a night grand final without the lights on at the start for pre game entertainment
oh i thought the 1906 world series was played under lights...
Our attitude to test cricket is far more similar to the Saffers than the Poms, we both go for the win, it's why our series are usually worth watching.
The ball still isn't right though, and it was rushed. I don't really have a problem with it conceptually, provided its done right and with due care to the sanctity of multi-dat cricket. It wasn't. So far, they have got away with it.
The more disturbing thing is if, like ODI cricket, they force it on venues where it is not suited. Games in places like Port Elizabeth are almost decided by the dew factor. In Australia, Hobart isn't suited to late nights because so much of the crowd in a very small market has to travel (it could be pushed back to a 7:30 or 8:00 finish easily enough in natural light though).
Manchester could see the day cut short because of visibility issues, even with TV stanbard lights an English fog is a (lack of) sight to behold.
For me, probably American Football. For many others it would be basketball.
Stupidly deep, or deeply stupid?
Not so sure about that. Individually there are a lot of similarities between Australia and SA, prickly players and a lot of aggression. But in the last decade the team philosophies are different. Australia batting a day and a bit for a draw two months back was massive. It's nothing for SA to bat two days. They are a far more bloody minded team who know when to accept that a draw is their best outcome and play accordingly.
Certainly historically England have a soft utensil cautionary attitude of failing to attack when they need to but that has changed for the most part, aside from Cook's insistence on scoring a million more runs than is necessary before every declaration.
Flintoff and Pietersen started to bring a far more positive approach to their cricket, Prior was another who enhanced that, and the likes of Swann, Broad, Anderson and more recently Stokes, Root and Bairstow have carried it on.
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In Australia you get the worst weather conditions at night though eg; cold, dew. The superbowl is played inside a dome or at an outside venue where the weather conditions provide for optimal playing conditions, it is hardly ever played at an outdoor venue which could provide for less optimum playing conditions. New York hosted it a few years ago and everybody had kittens when the announcement was made. The weather Gods were on the NFL's side as the snowstorm held off for 24 hours.
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Phoenix and Miami have a terrible record of supporting their teams.
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This is a tuogh question to answer, but I'll give it a shot. In terms of spectacle, the US shits on Australia. What we do for a Grand Final is there regular game! As for sporting prowess, Australia has made an impact across the world in many sports including MLB, NBA and NFL.
What was the impact on NFL?
