America’s Fascination With Sports
We Americans are nuts about football—not that European thing we call soccer—but the real deal, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson powering their team downfield, against all odds. Passes, rushes, tackles, sacked quarterbacks and the long-bomb when you least expect it. Stuff that brings you off the sofa, cheering. Even the language is all adrenalin.
And that’s not all
Baseball is #2 on our hit parade and we’re unashamed by naming its finale a World Series, even though it’s really just us and Canada. If Cuba or the Dominican Republic were involved we might be in trouble and Americans like to make trouble, not receive it.
Then there’s basketball, ice hockey, tennis, golf and auto racing. All this, while Europe considers cross-country skiing thrilling enough to actually watch on TV and Asia actually thinks table-tennis is a sport.
160 million viewers can’t be wrong
Yeah well, maybe they can, but that’s how many Yanks tune in regularly to their sport-of-choice. And I understand it’s a…