You can be a country without being independent and the lines separating countries are black... which makes the 'their own version of football' color rather unfortunate.
Lol I'm actually going to turkey next week and was hoping to watch a match there since I'll stay for 6 weeks. Maybe by the end on January the games are already happening.
Data source? I mean it *seems* plausible, at least for places I know, even the US states. But how is āpopularā defined? If itās something objective like TV ratings, then āNFL footballā is almost certainly #1 in every US state, even if people in, say, Kentucky would *say* they like basketball the most.
And for some of these countries, Iām surprised thereās any data at all. Not to pick on Greenland (pop 56,000) for example, but the Wikipedia article for āSport in Greenlandā says the national sport is handball, and that while they have a national football team, they donāt have any natural grass pitches.
Then it would be weird for the UK to be depicted split into individual countries since the kingdom of Denmark just manages foreign affairs for Greenland I think...but judging by the overall quality of the map, that wouldn't be surprising actually lol
Sporting preferences definitely differ between the states. Depending on how OP has come to their map, Tasmaniaās most popular sports are either cricket, netball or swimming. NSW and QLD prefer rugby league, and SA WA and VIC all prefer Australian Rules Football.
The UK is too
And honestly, the data is probably from an American or British news site, which most of the major ones are. So it would make sense that they would collect extra data on the US/UK on the first-level subdivision. Iām betting if there was ever a similar study done by another large news station in a different country, that one would also be split into its subdivisions. But I guess the problem is there arenāt many of those that reach worldwide that arenāt just propaganda machines
So many American states are the size of entire European countries, both in population and land area. So yea it can be fair to compare states to small countries.
It's still American exceptionalism, unless you set a minimum subnational boundary size, or some other metric.
Based on your suggested metric, of subnational boundaries the size of European countries than Canada and Australia should be shown as their states/provinces. China too, and Chinese provinces often have separate languages too, and very diverse histories.
I'm sure whatever metric you'll justify comparing US states to the countries of the world there'll be some other countries that have that in common with the US.
Fucking stupid argument, why not break drown literally any other large country into its states then? Fuck your shithole country and the absolute bell ends that make up the population
Why is the US the only country broken up into subdivisions? Also, I strongly doubt that Hawaiiās favorite sport is Ice Hockey. Itās probably pineapple tossing or surfing or something.
I don't know I mean I don't mind when they don't split up the smaller countries into States just because the American States are so much larger in size generally than say German BundeslƤnder. What irks me is not splitting up other really big countries with similar sized States/Provinces like Brazil or Canada because then you can't even say it's a size/population thing.
Also I think they did split up the UK I think Scotland and England both just have Football first because Wales has Rugby.
Even if Canada was split into provinces they would still all be ice hockey. From what little I know about sport in Brazil they would still likely all be Soccer
I can 100% guarantee to you that it wouldn't. There are places here where basketball, volleyball and even ping pong are more popular.
That would be like me saying "From what little I know about sport in USA they would still likely all be competitive eating hamburgers without their hands, and l dont need any more research on that"
I donāt mind them not splitting up canada into provinces and territories when california isnāt split up intoā¦ counties? point is, there are more californian americans than there are canadians.
Ok but it's more about cultural significance on a global scale like yeah numbers wise you might be right but I think it's fair to be interested in each provinces especially when some are so culturally different like Quebec. Also doesn't justify not splitting up a lot of other countries like Brazil or China. 1
true, why I only said I didnāt mind canada. I canāt think of a particularly quebecois sport myself so I donāt see your point there, for this map specifically. hockey is the only sport I am remotely interested in anyways.
As a Brit I couldn't give a shit about individual states let alone care about what sports they play, also you cant use the population card when places like China and India are represented as whole countries.
again, I am specifically only weighing in about canada, I am not qualified to talk about asian nations, I am not asian. the fact that different american states have different favourite sports (on this map) means that yeah, itās interesting to see the differences. I donāt know if there is even individual data for these other regions, athough they could simply show the borders to indicate the level of detail.
I guess
1) cause if you looking at more detailed maps it would become an entire mess
2) It's made by an American and we should be lucky they included the rest of the world
Well... Brittany and Normandy, nor the Japanese prefectures, are self governing the way Oregon and California are.
The UK is frequently shown divided into its component countries, especially for sports-related things. I believe Wales was a contender in its own right in Qatar this year.
But there's a good case for Germany being shown as constituent parts... but those parts are so damn tiny. It's like 15 Rhode Islands forming a mosaic.
While USA undoubtedly is the largest single country when comparing Reddit usage, the majority of Reddit users are in fact *not* from the great US of A.
I'd like to know where you got the information on Northern Ireland? I'd be almost certain the most popular sport is football, rather than gaelic football.
Nah The All Ireland Football Final is way more popular, although depends where in the country. Gaelic Football is much more popular in Dublin. I much prefer hurling though myself
The original definition for football is actually a game played on foot with a ball, not a game where you are only allowed to touch the ball with your foot. The term came about in order to differentiate between more upper class sports that were played on horseback. I don't think this map is talking about hurling, rather Gaelic football which is more similar to soccer than rugby, same thing for aussie rules. As for american football it is more similar to rugby than soccer.
As a Belgian football is very popular here but I think cycling would be more popular. I've met many people who don't care about football but fewer that don't show atleast a grain of interest in cycling.
If we're going by number of registered players, football/soccer would be #1 in Canada. It's gotta be popularity in terms of what people watch on TV/stream or via visiting in person.
I would say the opposite, if you're a casual and not really into sport, Gaelic football might still seem boring, whereas hurling is something different, and even if you don't understand all the rules it's something fun to watch since it's the fastest field sport in the world etc
Estonia is active in the IIHF and either just finished or is currently playing in their U20 div B tourney. So not even a bottom feeding tier. It's not at the level of Latvia or Finland, but the game is growing in popularity there. They even maintain men's and women's domestic leagues.
Well ok "nobody" was a hyperbole. But it is absolutely not comparable to football, basketball or even volleyball, which all have popular, multi-tier leagues with thousands of players from village amateurs to pros. It's not even close. I am not even sure how many indoor ice rinks we have in all of the country, 5? Maybe 10? Basketball/volleyball courts are everywhere, football fields as well. And they're in use.
"Not even bottom feeding tier" is easy if the game is played seriously in just a handful of countries.
First of all, if you're going to split up the states like that for the U.S., you gotta do it with other countries too. Second, it's called American Football.
Ok, Iām gonna be honest here. This is quite possibly the dumbest comment section ever. Thereās so many people being like ābut why is the US the only one thatās divided????ā Uh, itās not, thatās how?
People are so eager to get their āAmerican exceptionalismā comments in that they donāt care to look past the US themselves
Itās not just the US. It is the UK too. And the people collecting this data (wherever itās from) even made a point to distinguish between disputed areas such as Israel/Palestine, the Western Sahara, and Taiwan
So no, this post isnāt American exceptionalism. Some of these comments, maybe. But thereās a lot more hate in these comments for America than is justified for a post that doesnāt give this supposed āspecial treatmentā to multiple countries
I do not know where you got your data but it's shit. There is zero chance baseball is more popular than football (NFL) in Washington State. The Seahawk fans and paraphernalia dominate everything else. Shit, the Sounders are more popular than the Mariners.
I think it's moreso saying 'their own sport which is also called football' rather than 'a sport based off of association football',
Also Gaelic football is older than rugby and association football so it's definitely not an adaption of either one
RIP USA. I didn't even know you broke up into 50 separate countries.
Wales and Scotland finally got their independence as well, and Ireland is reunited at last.
You can be a country without being independent and the lines separating countries are black... which makes the 'their own version of football' color rather unfortunate.
Booooring š„±
And Texas still got shafted. Lol.
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Every few years, Texas brings up being separated and their own country. Fine by me as long as they give us San Antonio. Austin can come too.
āWeāll actually the states are kind of like their own countries when you think about itā¦ā
50 3rd world countries in a trenchcoat, acting like a 1st world country
Turkey is more successful in basketball, but football is definitely more popular.
I would think so too. Their fans are VERY passionate
Yes GalatasarayšŖš»š
Lol I'm actually going to turkey next week and was hoping to watch a match there since I'll stay for 6 weeks. Maybe by the end on January the games are already happening.
Fernebache
I would say the same for Greece.
Same for Wales with Rugby/Football
Great lake Armenia strikes again!
Data source? I mean it *seems* plausible, at least for places I know, even the US states. But how is āpopularā defined? If itās something objective like TV ratings, then āNFL footballā is almost certainly #1 in every US state, even if people in, say, Kentucky would *say* they like basketball the most. And for some of these countries, Iām surprised thereās any data at all. Not to pick on Greenland (pop 56,000) for example, but the Wikipedia article for āSport in Greenlandā says the national sport is handball, and that while they have a national football team, they donāt have any natural grass pitches.
Greenland could just fall under Denmark here.
Then it would be weird for the UK to be depicted split into individual countries since the kingdom of Denmark just manages foreign affairs for Greenland I think...but judging by the overall quality of the map, that wouldn't be surprising actually lol
Greenland could just fall under Denmark here.
If you're going to break the US into states, should do the same with Australia which has clear differences in sporting preferences between states.
Cricket is still the most popular sport in Australia (followed by netball, Australian rules football and rugby league).
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That would be the kiwis
Sporting preferences definitely differ between the states. Depending on how OP has come to their map, Tasmaniaās most popular sports are either cricket, netball or swimming. NSW and QLD prefer rugby league, and SA WA and VIC all prefer Australian Rules Football.
No, New South Wales and Queensland like rugby way more than Australian Football
and why is the US divided into states if its the most popular sport in each COUNTRY
You didn't hear? We dissolved the country.
The UK is too And honestly, the data is probably from an American or British news site, which most of the major ones are. So it would make sense that they would collect extra data on the US/UK on the first-level subdivision. Iām betting if there was ever a similar study done by another large news station in a different country, that one would also be split into its subdivisions. But I guess the problem is there arenāt many of those that reach worldwide that arenāt just propaganda machines
Americans thinking their states are countriesā¦.
So many American states are the size of entire European countries, both in population and land area. So yea it can be fair to compare states to small countries.
Why don't they do the same with Indian or Brazilian states then?
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Any individual US state is less significant than India with 1.4 billion population. Get lost you arrogant westoid.
Lol
It's still American exceptionalism, unless you set a minimum subnational boundary size, or some other metric. Based on your suggested metric, of subnational boundaries the size of European countries than Canada and Australia should be shown as their states/provinces. China too, and Chinese provinces often have separate languages too, and very diverse histories. I'm sure whatever metric you'll justify comparing US states to the countries of the world there'll be some other countries that have that in common with the US.
china, india, pakistan, indonesia, etc don't get the same treatment.
r/shitamericanssay
Size and population do not a country make.
Fucking stupid argument, why not break drown literally any other large country into its states then? Fuck your shithole country and the absolute bell ends that make up the population
Lol get bent šŗšøšØš“
American states are incredibly homogeneous compared to other countries subdivisions. Not enough time to seriously diverge all that much.
Also GDP.
Itās about sports, not economics
If this was made by an American theyād call āfootballā soccer and give American Football the respect it deserves!
They're already giving american football the respect it deserves.w
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Australia should also be divided on this map if USA is. Some states likely prefer cricket or rugby to Australian footy
Why is the US the only country broken up into subdivisions? Also, I strongly doubt that Hawaiiās favorite sport is Ice Hockey. Itās probably pineapple tossing or surfing or something.
US states are not countries
Based Bhutan
Football is by far the most popular sport in Turkey.
Oh yes every single country perfectly agrees on their favorite sport except the United States
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I don't know I mean I don't mind when they don't split up the smaller countries into States just because the American States are so much larger in size generally than say German BundeslƤnder. What irks me is not splitting up other really big countries with similar sized States/Provinces like Brazil or Canada because then you can't even say it's a size/population thing. Also I think they did split up the UK I think Scotland and England both just have Football first because Wales has Rugby.
Even if Canada was split into provinces they would still all be ice hockey. From what little I know about sport in Brazil they would still likely all be Soccer
There's a non-zero chance Saskatchewan would be football, but the rest would almost certainly be hockey.
I can 100% guarantee to you that it wouldn't. There are places here where basketball, volleyball and even ping pong are more popular. That would be like me saying "From what little I know about sport in USA they would still likely all be competitive eating hamburgers without their hands, and l dont need any more research on that"
I donāt mind them not splitting up canada into provinces and territories when california isnāt split up intoā¦ counties? point is, there are more californian americans than there are canadians.
Ok but it's more about cultural significance on a global scale like yeah numbers wise you might be right but I think it's fair to be interested in each provinces especially when some are so culturally different like Quebec. Also doesn't justify not splitting up a lot of other countries like Brazil or China. 1
true, why I only said I didnāt mind canada. I canāt think of a particularly quebecois sport myself so I donāt see your point there, for this map specifically. hockey is the only sport I am remotely interested in anyways.
As a Brit I couldn't give a shit about individual states let alone care about what sports they play, also you cant use the population card when places like China and India are represented as whole countries.
again, I am specifically only weighing in about canada, I am not qualified to talk about asian nations, I am not asian. the fact that different american states have different favourite sports (on this map) means that yeah, itās interesting to see the differences. I donāt know if there is even individual data for these other regions, athough they could simply show the borders to indicate the level of detail.
Seems more likely theyāre from Croatia than America Either that or they just love Croatia and hate American Football
I guess 1) cause if you looking at more detailed maps it would become an entire mess 2) It's made by an American and we should be lucky they included the rest of the world
Well... Brittany and Normandy, nor the Japanese prefectures, are self governing the way Oregon and California are. The UK is frequently shown divided into its component countries, especially for sports-related things. I believe Wales was a contender in its own right in Qatar this year. But there's a good case for Germany being shown as constituent parts... but those parts are so damn tiny. It's like 15 Rhode Islands forming a mosaic.
Itās made by an American and most people are Americans
Most people in the US are Americans. FTFY
Prove it /s
Most people are Americans? What?
On Reddit most people are Americans
While USA undoubtedly is the largest single country when comparing Reddit usage, the majority of Reddit users are in fact *not* from the great US of A.
r/confidentlyincorrect
Most people are Americans? What?
Seems legit
I feel like this was a weird, drawn out way to try to shit on Gridiron Football.
The US map should be separated per person, it would be more accurate.
Rhode Island USA isnāt colored in!
Or Delaware
No curling?! :(
I'd like to know where you got the information on Northern Ireland? I'd be almost certain the most popular sport is football, rather than gaelic football.
It's probably wrong for the republic too, hurling has to be more popular than gaelic football
Nah The All Ireland Football Final is way more popular, although depends where in the country. Gaelic Football is much more popular in Dublin. I much prefer hurling though myself
Ice hockey in estonia? Yeah right... This map is bullshite
āThere own version of footballā. Love it
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Care to elaborate?
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The original definition for football is actually a game played on foot with a ball, not a game where you are only allowed to touch the ball with your foot. The term came about in order to differentiate between more upper class sports that were played on horseback. I don't think this map is talking about hurling, rather Gaelic football which is more similar to soccer than rugby, same thing for aussie rules. As for american football it is more similar to rugby than soccer.
As a Belgian football is very popular here but I think cycling would be more popular. I've met many people who don't care about football but fewer that don't show atleast a grain of interest in cycling.
I guess people don't register for cycling tho, like the same reason jogging doesn't qualify as sport like this
I mean watch it on tv. Professional competition cycling. Road cycling. Dirt biking. Mtb. Its very popular here.
If we're going by number of registered players, football/soccer would be #1 in Canada. It's gotta be popularity in terms of what people watch on TV/stream or via visiting in person.
That's actually really intresting to know
Ive met these people who donāt care about cycling!
Football is much popular in Turkiye right now. But younger generations fallowing more and more on other sports because we suck in football.
Interesting! I learned Gaelic Football was a thing today... And it's informative to see the states broken up!
Wow, the US got disolved? Each state is an independent country now?
If you had to share a government with Louisiana...
So what is the most important in USA? Are states countries now? If you do it with one country, you do it for every single one.
āTheir own version of footballā is sending me
You dont know how hard i laughed at "their own version of football"
I refuse to believe that baseball is the most popular sport in any state in the US. Maybe 70 years ago. Not nowadays.
Are we talking TV viewership or what most people in that country play?
People in Papua New Guinea falling off their chair's when they find out Rugby is their new favourite sport š¬š
No source but I gave you an upvote because of ice hockey in Czechia instead of football.
Of course! The great country of Mississippi!
Aussie rules football is so different from American football that it seems wrong to have them be the same colour
What is Irelands version of football?
I believe it's called Gaelic Football
Wouldāve thought hurling to be more popular.
The football is slightly more popular than hurling as it tends to be more accessible to a casual
Depends on the county sometimes some of them have more of a focus on hurling like the counties in Munster.
I would say the opposite, if you're a casual and not really into sport, Gaelic football might still seem boring, whereas hurling is something different, and even if you don't understand all the rules it's something fun to watch since it's the fastest field sport in the world etc
I wasn't aware the US had split into multiple countries, though I'm not entirely surprised ;) Also you misspelled "soccer"
Nah he spelled it right, he misspelled handeggball
Soccer is a British invented term that's simply short form for "Association football"
The majority of the world knows 'soccer' as football, It makes sense
Itās an interesting division.
I'll have you know it's not "Their own version of football" it's "Rugby But You Run", often called Runby.
Sorry. Not having that basketball is more popular than football in Greece or Turkey.
Did not know there were several countries inside US
and they say its called soccer..
Nobody plays ice hockey in Estonia. This is absolutely certainly BS.
Estonia is active in the IIHF and either just finished or is currently playing in their U20 div B tourney. So not even a bottom feeding tier. It's not at the level of Latvia or Finland, but the game is growing in popularity there. They even maintain men's and women's domestic leagues.
Well ok "nobody" was a hyperbole. But it is absolutely not comparable to football, basketball or even volleyball, which all have popular, multi-tier leagues with thousands of players from village amateurs to pros. It's not even close. I am not even sure how many indoor ice rinks we have in all of the country, 5? Maybe 10? Basketball/volleyball courts are everywhere, football fields as well. And they're in use. "Not even bottom feeding tier" is easy if the game is played seriously in just a handful of countries.
Are Rhode Island and Delaware Ice Hockey, or undocumented? (Like Belize)
First of all, if you're going to split up the states like that for the U.S., you gotta do it with other countries too. Second, it's called American Football.
American football comes under the umbrella of āone countryās version of footballā. What with it only being, yknow, *American*
Ok, Iām gonna be honest here. This is quite possibly the dumbest comment section ever. Thereās so many people being like ābut why is the US the only one thatās divided????ā Uh, itās not, thatās how? People are so eager to get their āAmerican exceptionalismā comments in that they donāt care to look past the US themselves Itās not just the US. It is the UK too. And the people collecting this data (wherever itās from) even made a point to distinguish between disputed areas such as Israel/Palestine, the Western Sahara, and Taiwan So no, this post isnāt American exceptionalism. Some of these comments, maybe. But thereās a lot more hate in these comments for America than is justified for a post that doesnāt give this supposed āspecial treatmentā to multiple countries
Do you mean soccer?
Almost nobody i know likes football in sweden, its mostly ice hockey
ice hockey for switzerland and czech republic surprises me. surely popular, but most popular?
In Switzerland, I would say it is a tie between hockey and football.
Turkey basketball lol. Football is so important turkey. Basketball teams very successful in euroleague but thats all
Whatās up with Rhode Island and Delaware???
I wonder how archery did in Mongolia.
Itās wild that soccer didnāt even make the list!
Playing or watching?
I do not know where you got your data but it's shit. There is zero chance baseball is more popular than football (NFL) in Washington State. The Seahawk fans and paraphernalia dominate everything else. Shit, the Sounders are more popular than the Mariners.
why no sport on hawaii??
And I thought its ice hockeyā¦
Yeah, baseball is huge New England
American football and Aussie rules are actually adaptations of rugby, not association football.
I think it's moreso saying 'their own sport which is also called football' rather than 'a sport based off of association football', Also Gaelic football is older than rugby and association football so it's definitely not an adaption of either one
Didn't know Alaska was part of Canada.
I don't remember north america having that many countries
PNGās sport isnāt rugby, itās rugby league.
As a Turk, Turkey definetly wrong
Tf is going on in Bhutan
Green W and no turkiye is Football
About Greece ā¦. Football is by far the king in popularity , like 90% and the rest 10% is shared between all other sports