# Does America invent it's own sports to look good.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 10, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-invent-its-own-sports-to-look-good/49328 "2001-01-10T14:51:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![steph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@steph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steph)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-invent-its-own-sports-to-look-good/49328/1 "2001-01-10T14:51:36Z")

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Is it true that americans invent sports that the rest of the world would will not compete in and so making themselves the world champions because they are rubbish at real sports like Rugby and Soccer (Olympics Excepted because someone running in a straight line is not a sport), e.g. Baseball, American football, tractor pulling, etc…

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-invent-its-own-sports-to-look-good/49328/2 "2001-01-10T14:57:09Z")

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Could you perhaps rephrase that into something _less_ inflammatory, **steph**?

Also, this isn’t really a General Question. What’s your purpose with this thread? I or one of my colleague moderators will then move the thread accordingly. It definately does not belong here.

I suggest you read the Forum Descriptions in the mean time.

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**Author:** ![Kid\_Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kid\_Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_Gilligan)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-invent-its-own-sports-to-look-good/49328/3 "2001-01-10T14:57:32Z")

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Yes. That’s true.

Now I demand that being stranded on a deserted island be made an Olympic sport.

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**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-invent-its-own-sports-to-look-good/49328/4 "2001-01-10T15:16:32Z")

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Yeah, we Americans should try our hand at those “real” sports like Gaelic football, hurling, and camogie, you think?

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-invent-its-own-sports-to-look-good/49328/5 "2001-01-10T15:27:50Z")

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> \*Originally posted by steph \*  
> \*\*Is it true that americans invent sports that the rest of the world would will not compete in and so making themselves the world champions because they are rubbish at real sports like Rugby and Soccer (Olympics Excepted because someone running in a straight line is not a sport), e.g. Baseball, American football, tractor pulling, etc… \*\*

No. Hope that helps.