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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
Because in this country there is a mind set that if I don't get what I want, I'm taking my bat and ball and finding other people who WILL do it my way.
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It's not so much that as that since we're not going to be playing with them, why bother having the same rules?
Australia & New Zealand were on their way shortly after the introduction of Rugby Union to adopting their own rules variants the same as Canadian & American football developed. But then they started playing internationally and dropped such national rules as the "force down" score.
If basketball teams in the US & Canada played internationally a lot, I'm sure they'd go by one rule set.