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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Sorry, goober, but that's a bullsh!t statistic when one country has 10 times the population of the other. You'd also have to correlate in the actual number of football players in each country also to come up with something a little more meaningful than what you're trying to sell.
Would you use the same type of reasoning to come up with the conclusion that because the USA hasn't won a Gold Medal in the Olympics or World Basketball championships since 2000 ( beaten by countries during that period like Spain, Italy, Argentina, Greece, Puerto Rico, etc.), US basketball players overall just aren't as "good" as the players in those countries also and American players just aren't very good at basketball?
Good try though. If it will make you feel better, why don't you just come right out and say "Nanny nanny boo-boo, my country is better than yours."
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Wow, I guess I hit a nerve when you have to resort to name-calling in your response! I usually use statistics to support my arguments when possible so that it's not just random opinion. Silly me! (I was disappointed that you called me a goober and not a "hoser.")
EH??
You say that the statistic is not valid in supporting my argument? Well, when a country has 10 times the population but yet has more than 100 times the players in the NFL, you'd have say it has to do with more than just population, eh? If it was just the population difference, then you'd expect that there would be 170 Canadians in the NFL, not just 14! Hey, 14 means that there is less than one-half a Canadian on each NFL team! Ouch.
As for your argument about basketball, if you don't win THE gold medal, I don't think that you can conclude that a country does not have good basketball players. If a country consistently makes the Olympics or makes the medal round or gets any kind of medal, you can safely conclude that they have good basketball players. (I don't see how your argument relates to Canadians in football since the less than 1% argument is not even close to the argument that the US has not won the gold medal for a few years.) And, let's face it, the world is catching up to the US in basketball. I've got no problem with that. The rest of the world is getting better because kids around the world have been exposed to and grown to love a truly great sport that was invented in the USA by a CANADIAN! (Did you know that?)
Hey, Canada has a great one in Steve Nash! Did you know that there are 2 other Canadians in the NBA. Yep, Canada is up to 3 now! Basketball is a truly international sport, probably 2nd only to soccer in world popularity. Notice that the NBA does not have a restriction on "imports." We have a tendancy to want the best players, not limited to only those who are born in our country. Xenophobia does not promote the best in sport. As long as the CFL restricts imports, it will only be limiting itself to minor league status.
Not that the CFL is not entertaining. I am trying to make it to a Blue Bomber or Roughrider game to see what it's like and to see those great softball uniforms on the refs. I think it would be fun.
When it comes to football, you would have to agree that the CFL is truly a minor league and the lack of Canadians in the NFL supports my argument that Canadians are way way behind the US in football...eh?
As for hockey, which is 'god' in Canada, things are changing. Canadians make up only 52% of the rosters now in the NHL. The US is up to 21% (not bad for a country where hockey is basically played in a few northern tier states and very few colleges) and the other 27% is made up of players from 18 other countries including such hockey powers as the UK and Brazil!
JUGGLING - Sorry about the Rice thing. I see your point about distance.