Kraft stumping for London team (say it ain't so, Bob)

[ausbacker]

Baseball used to be America's pastime when football was small time. In the last 40 years, has the sport of football improved more than baseball? I think that's a yes. But I don't think that accounts for the big swing in popularity.

Football is on top now largely because baseball pressed the self-destruct button three times, in non-salary cap free agency, drawn out player strikes, and the flagrantly ignored roid era they turned a blind eye to to win back eyeballs after the strike.

Soccer will never overtake football, that's true, if everything continues as it is. But if the NFL presses the self-destruct button several times? If the concussion issue becomes extreme, if the players and owners can't collectively bargain, and so on? MLS is growing in popularity, people are familiar with the sport, and they have their playoffs in late fall. In a decade they might be in better position than baseball to profit if the NFL ever shoots itself.

How many times does it need to be pointed out that soccer is not Baseball or American Football? In some countries, despite whatever level of growth (and it's generally larger on the female side of the ledger), it's always going to be on the second rung of major sports.

 

[Joker]

they should morph soccer and baseball...yeah...when the guy jumps into the other guy and they go down in agony but jump up a second later feeling ZERO apparently, really makes me question the integrity of some of these players...BUT...now you have a bat and swing at the bastard going for the header, well bunky, now THERE"S some real contact baby...

Batoccer...could change the world!

 

[Deus Irae]

It was 4 Canadian teams and 1917 as I pointed out earlier and only you would attempt to revise history. You're the pretender in this case and you know it.

I haven't attempted to revise history. History's on my side for this. You, on the other hand, don't really have time on your side with regards to your claimed group of Canadians, who would be pretty much all dead and, therefore, unable to tell you their opinion on U.S. teams in the NHL, unless you're hitting up graveyards and holding seances. By the way, the first professional hockey league was the International Hockey League, and had U.S. and Canadian teams. Also, the Stanley cup was won by a U.S. team in 1917, with the Seattle Metropolitans beating the Montreal Canadiens.

Again, I said essentially from the beginning. Now, you can go talk to those ghosts some more.

 

[Jackson 2]

I haven't attempted to revise history. History's on my side for this. You, on the other hand, don't really have time on your side with regards to your claimed group of Canadians, who would be pretty much all dead and, therefore, unable to tell you their opinion on U.S. teams in the NHL, unless you're hitting up graveyards and holding seances. By the way, the first professional hockey league was the International Hockey League, and had U.S. and Canadian teams. Also, the Stanley cup was won by a U.S. team in 1917, with the Seattle Metropolitans beating the Montreal Canadiens.

Again, I said essentially from the beginning. Now, you can go talk to those ghosts some more.

It would certainly be more honest, interesting and accurately informative than communicating with you. That league wasn't the NHL which was at the root of your original lie.

 

[FirstAndGoal]

I'm willing to let the 4 Canadian teams form their own league. Let's see how long they last with only Canadian revenue to live on...how fast do you think the best players will head for the (U.S.) border?

A Canadian only league would look a lot like the movie "Slapshot" (Chiefs).

 

[lurker1965]

The LA Kings were never in Edmonton.

The Kings were one of the six teams added in the NHL's first big expansion when the league went from six to twelve teams for the 1967-68 season. The Edmonton Oilers were one of four franchises added in 1979 as part of the merger between the WHA and the NHL.

my mistake. Edmonton was contracted and the expansion Kings got Gretzyky, right?

 

[SB39]

my mistake. Edmonton was contracted and the expansion Kings got Gretzyky, right?