sanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · 19 hours agoHow do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todayimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1329
arrow-up1329imageHow do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · 19 hours agomessage-square65fedilink
minus-squareThalion@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up22·8 hours agoYou realize that pretending to not know what the most watched sporting event in the world is just makes you seem like an idiot, right?
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoMany sports have a ‘world cup’.
minus-squareKillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachtslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 hours agoBut only the USA has a world cup with local teams
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 hours agoI was about to post an erm ackshually but I checked my facts. An urban myth holds the name “World Series” came from a putative sponsorship by the New York World newspaper. The earliest such claim found by Snopes was made in 1991
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoIt clearly comes from the fact that to Americans the world is just the US and Canada
minus-squarestarchylemming@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 hours agoall of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets sadly
You realize that pretending to not know what the most watched sporting event in the world is just makes you seem like an idiot, right?
Many sports have a ‘world cup’.
But only the USA has a world cup with local teams
I was about to post an erm ackshually but I checked my facts.
It clearly comes from the fact that to Americans the world is just the US and Canada
all of them combined are insignificant compared to the attention this gets
sadly