Sunday, May 10, 2009

Oh America.

"Ms. America, you've been a very bad girl
you nearly disgraced humanity in the eyes of the world
vanity has took you over, you're not deserving
the mirror image of your reflection is quite disturbing"

Ms. AmeriKKKa - Acelyalone

What's doing with American sports claiming the winner of their respective National Leagues as being the "World Champion". It's like America has an inferiority complex. It's simply perplexing. American Major Leagues are generally tops in the sporting world, however to insist their National Champions become "World Champions" is obnoxious. Worst case in point is the insistence that the winner of the NFL's Super Bowl as the "World Champion". It's absurd. It's AMERICAN Football. Nobody else plays it. In a similar position, the Aussie Rules champion in Australia (where else!?) compete for the Premiership Flag. A respectable prize with no nauseating title. America, take note.
America feels like it wants to be the cool kid, so it calls itself the cool kid, but as we know, cool kids don't call themselves cool. They just are. America needs to realise there is a world outside of America.

The problem just doesn't lie with American Leagues crowning "World Champions". It also lies with the American media. Superlatives as "The Shot heard around the world" or "How [enter American team] shocked the world". Writers and the sheep public needs to pull the heads out of their asses and see that America is not the centre of the Sporting World. America is blind, and not only in the sporting field, but that's another loooong story.
Americans obviously have an ongoing personality problem with the world. Some of it undeserving, but minor issues like these just re-enforce the problem. Non-Americans just scoff at the "importance" of American sport, and rightly so.
So here's hoping the Cleveland LeBrons win the National World Championship in the coming weeks. It's going to be the Championship the World has waited for ever since King James entered the League. Seriously though, it will be great for the underdog city of Cleveland.

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