>>369447American football is actually an American exclusive. If you look up, there are regular competitions here and there in various countries, but none is professional. The only exception is Canadian football, whose top competition is basically filled with NFL rejects, so basically there are almost no Canadians anymore and as far as I know there are no Canadian football competitions of any kind outside of Canada.
That said, there is an international federation organising a world cup every four years, IIRC America even send a team of amateurs/students. And they regularly won. An interesting thing is that the rule book is not exactly identical to the one used by the NFL - which, I guess, is not even the same used by the NCAA or other collegiate sports organisations.
Obviously the disproportion between a single national competion with a huge spectator market and an awful lot of billions of dollars as yearly revenue and any "world cup" with like eight nations taking part just for their own enjoyment, after they play at most one or two months per year in their amateur national championships is evident.
Recently, some rugby players from abroad are trying to join NFL teams. If they can find a spot, they could cash in a single year what they could make in an entire career in professional rugby.
Baseball is not like the NFL, tho. There a few professional competitions outside America. It's the national sport in Japan, Venezuela, Cuba, and I guess is pretty popular in SKorea and the remnant of the RoC with its capital in Taipei. It used to be an olympic sport, I remember they scrapped it but I don't know if they are trying to reintroduce it. Even in that case, America sends an amateur team.
As for basketball, it's always been popular at least as a second or third sport in many places way before the world became americanised. There have been viable professional championships in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Turkey, former Titoslavia, that (((place in the middle east))), Russia, Lithuania, Argentina and some other places. In Europe there are even continental club competions. Obviously the NBA still has the advantage of having a huge production of players and they make money with worldwide rights, merchandise and the like. Yet, other nations are closing the gap, sometimes with players going in the NBA and having a successful career there.
FIFAball is a girls sport, though and I suggest it should be completely abandoned for the female sex to take it over completely. Last night I watched an appaling spectatle, Argentina vs Brazil, the final of the Copa America. Supposedly the fiercest rivalry ever, supposedly with some of the best players in the world on the pitch, yet a constant bitching about any contact, people going to the ground more than in a judo bout for the most insignificant challenge, perpetual dissent with the referee and overall one of the lowest levels of effort ever seen in any professional sport, let alone by some player paid plenty of millions a year just in image rights.
In other sports, America succesfully destroyed professional cycling in Europe planting the Dope-meister Lance Armstrong at the top of it in the early 2000s, just to "find out" he was on the whole pharmacopeia around 2012. Also, they've been trying to hijack FIFAball for decades. First, they got the hosting rights for the 1994 World Cup, despite not having ever had a pro championship and many stadiums were badly adapted NFL pitches. Then, decades later, when they failed to get another World Cup, they brought down Sepp Blatter and now you also have female FIFAball pushed everywhere because they are dominant there.
As for the Bongs, they are irked by their relative lack of success in games they actually invented. Let's see what happens tonight in UEFAball. For sure, they get extremely pissed when they perform badly in cricket and rugby. This may be in part eased by the fact that dominant nations in those sports are historically tied to them - New Zealand, Australia and South Africa in rugby, India, Pakistan and various Caribbean countries in cricket - but when for example England get scolded by France in rugby - and there's a match every year - or in the near future they may start getting beatings from Argentina or possibly Japan, well, the seething is strong there. But you must also consider that in those sports, the Home Nations competes separately - England, Scotland and Wales, plus Ireland which is organised on a whole island basis - and there's not a single British side like in the olymplics.
>>369724I already said it, but I'm happy to repeat it again and again: the use of the wrong initialism for the Communist Party of China is the real shibboleth that helps us tell the New Cold Warriors from people worth of respect.