Yippee! My faith in Canadians has been vindicated. Though you do have a game that involves sweeping the area in front of a slowly sliding thingie. Looks quite retarded.
I'm not sure why you think Corwin vindicated your position.
He said that Canadians follow the NFL and "also" the World Cup. There is also a Canadian Football League which plays American football.
As I said, Canadians are impacted by American media and culture the same or more than they are by the Europeans. The exception might be the French in Quebec.
Dude, talk to an American and a Canadian and you can barely tell them apart by accent or behavior. Canadians are more like Americans than the British.
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3. For all my life kids play soccer, not as many adults do. It's been the 'next big thing' that's never happened for about 40 years, like for you.
And that's like the U.S. American kids play soccer. Adults watch American football.
And notice Corwin called it "soccer" like Americans do, not "football" like you do.
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The strongest athletes for competitive sports get moved or streamed into hockey.

That's okay then. That could save a game of hopscotch from adverse criticism!

To me too, never played it. But I understand that there's actually a lot of drinking before and after involved.

Yippee! My faith in Canadians has been vindicated. Though you do have a game that involves sweeping the area in front of a slowly sliding thingie. Looks quite retarded.

Guys, to put this to bed:

1. We follow the NFL. Lots of people also follow the World Cup
2. Those of us who live in a city with a CFL team will walk down the street to catch the occasional game with friends.
3. For all my life kids play soccer, not as many adults do. It's been the 'next big thing' that's never happened for about 40 years, like for you.

I thought you were talking about watching football and keeping up with the game. Anyway, better check with Corwin. I can't imagine Canadians being dumb enough to pay any attention to any American sport (except boxing and basketball, which are dominated by black guys).

But Canadians do play American football at the league level. And they have even participated in American leagues. The American influence in Canada is obviously much greater than in Europe. You may have a point about Quebec, but not the rest of Anglicized Canada.
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That's unlikely. Outside America, European football is huge. It's probably the most watched sport in the world, by a factor of millions.

Canada is exposed to American media. So I would venture to say Canadians follow American football as much as we do, probably more than they do what we call "soccer" or
futbol
.
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Yep.
There are American football leagues all over the world.
Russia, China, almost all of Europe and of course Great Britain… BAFL.
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Damn, that's some great homoerotica.
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They rub maple syrup on their crotches to disarm the other team.

American football is popular in Canada and there is a Canadian Football League.
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Exactly! Rugby is a genuinely high-risk game. Rugby-players laugh at American body-armour and shoulder pads. Almost the last person you want to get into a bar fight with is a rugby player. If he's SAS and plays rugby you should meekly let him insult your mother and buy him another round.
American football is said to have developed from rugby. British colonists from Canada are said to have brought rugby to the Americans. At that time the two were not as differentiated as now.
The origin of rugby in England goes back long into the 19th century and even earlier. In 1800's formalities were introduced to football rules in the seven major public schools of England.Handling the ball was permitted in football in the early 1800's when players were allowed to take a mark and then a free kick. The Rugby Football Union had been formed in 1871 by representatives of 21 clubs - all of which were located in southern England and most were within London. By the early 1890's rugby was widespread and well over half the RFU's clubs were in northern England. The working classes of the north of England and South Wales were particularly taken with rugby over football (soccer).

did american footie come before rugby? maybe rugby appropriated parts of football. and then rugby has almost no following here other than at prep schools and few universitys.
weird that almost no other country has any type of american style football.
in my opinion, rugby is much more demanding than football: little or no protective gear so the body's getting pummeled naturally.

Like most things British, it makes no sense and has archaic "rules".

Bingo and exact RP.
I have tried watching rugby and have no idea what the **** I am watching.
I could understand rocket science easier and I know nothing at all about that.

I notice you are struggling to keep up, but that's okay. I put it down to age and fury.

Typical ignorant Brit response, like they still own the entire world.
Typical chauvinist, misogynistic, brainless response when threatened by a woman who knows more than him.
Dismissed.

Americans have barely entered the Neolithic era intellectually. You are a perfect example. Period (is it that time of month for you?)

Brits haven't kept up with modern times.
FULL STOP.

In British English, quotation marks are called inverted commas and the single ones are used more frequently than the double for direct speech.
Dumb yanks don't even know the language they inherited. Morons!

For the uninformed [you], they are called quotation marks. Who's dumb now?