One sport is gone forever. Erased from history. No more playing and no more watching. Which of the following four do you eliminate?
You are cruel. You always want to eliminate TV shows, or food, or sports. I don't care about sports that much, but I don't want to deprive other people of things they like. I have lots of fond memories playing baseball with my dad. I have some fond memories watching basketball with my dad. I have a few fond memories watching football with my friends. I don't care really care for soccer, but I don't want to take soccer from other people. Of these three sports, soccer is the most popular world wide. Soccer is also the easiest sport to play on a low budget. I don't want to take that from people.
I would not mind deleting all of them honestly But if I had to choose one, it would be Football (Soccer). Though if that was gone, one of the other 3 would probably just take its place and nothing would really have changed - I think I just don't like these kinds of sports in general, neither watching, hearing or playing or really anything related to them.
I had to choose one it'd be what Americans call "Football" but isn't, as it's just a more violent version of Rugby which is itself a thug's game. But really like @ASSASSIN_NR_1 I absolutely couldn't care less about any of these sports. Baseball and Basketball are also American fare and can quite happily disappear, and actual Football has become rotten to the core - more of a business to fill the pockets of Ferengi club owners and primadonna 'star' players than an actual game anymore. I also despise how it's become the national sport of the UK and relegated far better games like Cricket to the sidelines in terms of popularity and broadcasting. I'd be quite happy to see all four removed from human civilisation.
I used to be the sporty type, mostly during age 10-26, nothing serious, but I loved doing it. After saying this I currently only keep track of the Dutch soccer competition, some champions league or Euro league and I enjoy watching the international games of our Orange Lions together with my kids Of all the above I have never played American 'football' and therefore an easy pick. Grrr, !mrahil
What type of sports do you enjoy? Hmmm... possible residual effects of my hexing (and subsequent elimination) of England in the previous World Cup... perhaps I should be more careful in the application of my prodigious powers. Cricket?! That's just an equally boring but longer version of Baseball (and yes, I recognize that cricket was created first). I guess to each their own. I suppose it isn't very prevalent over there in Europe. Luckily as a Sith Lord Chaos Dwarf, I am not limited by such concerns. So for my elimination, it's easily Baseball. Way too slow paced with very little action. A lazy sport. Boring to play and even worse to watch. Soccer is the best of the bunch. I'd eliminate all three of the other choices without hesitation before I'd delete soccer. Basketball slightly edges out American football, and Baseball brings up the very distant rear.
Funny you should mention that... I already had my next "elimination" poll primed and ready to go, but maybe I'll find something else to break things up a bit.
You said: No context. Delete one of the following four sports forever. Football (American), Basketball, Baseball, Soccer. ChatGPT said: Baseball. You said: Rationale? ChatGPT said: Baseball is the most logical choice if you're forced to delete one of the four based purely on global impact, cultural relevance, and current popularity: Global Popularity: Soccer is the most popular sport worldwide by a massive margin—untouchable globally. Basketball has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in Asia and Europe, and has a huge youth and pop culture following. American Football is relatively confined to the U.S., but its economic power (NFL), cultural impact, and viewership are unmatched domestically. Baseball, while historic and beloved, has seen declining domestic attention (especially among youth) and has less global traction compared to the others. Pace and Evolution: Baseball struggles with its slower pace and limited appeal to younger audiences. It’s made efforts to modernize, but the other sports have adapted faster and more effectively. Star Power & Narrative: Basketball and football create superstars who drive stories, rivalries, and social media engagement. Soccer is legendary for this. Baseball’s stars don’t have the same reach or cultural footprint. If You Delete It... Removing baseball would have the least overall ripple effect on the current global sports ecosystem. It’s big—but not that big anymore. This isn’t a knock on baseball’s legacy—it just loses the battle of modern relevance and global weight.
The important part is I read in my head in the voice of John Colicos Though all the voice actors for Apocalypse are pretty badass, Colicos is best.
American "Football", the game that barely uses one's feet - in fact, you do more carrying the ball than you do actually having your foot touch said ball. Now, I'll admit that this is from an outsider perspective, and might well be getting things wrong as pop culture "knowledge" might be contaminating the well, but... I hate how it has been culturally bigged-up to the point that those who are good at it in high school are elevated and get to be carried through their education based on being such a sport star. Not to say proper football doesn't have its bugbears with me - I hate football hooliganism, and how people get so fixated that there is violence over a god-damned sport. But at least proper football, here in the UK, gets some hilarious moments from the audience. UK humour at its finest. Just a pity it's focused on footie.
Hah, I was wondering if you'd think my viewpoint on this being because of that little spat between us, but in truth my intense dislike of how corporatised football has become dates to long before that. I won't deny that Cricket is a much slower-paced game than football, but I find it quite a nice thing to just tune in and out of every so often (the few times it's on Freeview TV, when it's not sidelined for bloody football ) in between watching other things, just to see how England (or my home county of Hampshire if it's a County match) is faring. To be honest though I personally actually find Football to be the duller game, what with each team now more of a business than a sporting institution and how the fat-cat big clubs always sit at the top of the highest league while the less wealthy teams (like my own Southampton ) can do nothing to knock them off their perch because they can just get away with cheating on the part of their primadonna 'star players' from across the world (diving in the penalty area to get free kicks being the biggest offence that can often be flat-out ignored). Not to mention that said big clubs can use their wealth to bribe away any investigations into worse behaviour off the pitch (look at Manchester City - hit with allegations of breaking the rules of the Premier League several years ago that are no doubt true, yet nothing has become of said allegations lately... coincidence? I think not). When one considers that football was originally just local people playing for their local teams (which Cricket thankfully still is in the County leagues), it's rather sad to see a game become so commercialised and monetised. Moreover, my main point in my previous post is probably something only a Brit would probably understand - in the past Cricket used to have special status here as The Gentleman's Game, The Civilised Man's Game, the game that Britain exported to pretty much every nation across its Empire (apart from your own Canada it seems sadly... too much American influence from Baseball ) when Football, as a professional game, was very much in its infancy and was sneered upon as a sport of the lower classes (which still isn't far from the truth to be honest, given the rowdiness of football crowds and the hooliganism from a portion of fans). Even today Cricket still retains decorum when Football has none, has a more sedate and relaxed pace, and is pretty much the national sport of our long-lost cousins in Australia... yet here it is very much ignored by broadcasting companies and viewers alike in favour of Football (probably due to lower-class snobbery being the one accepted general viewpoint here nowadays), and that's what I really dislike. As for Baseball, funnily enough we have a version of that too, called Rounders (which I'm pretty sure Baseball is a later Americanisation of), with the bat being a 'hand weapon' rather than a 'great weapon'... unfortunately I'm unsure it even has a televised presence, or if there are full-on professional teams for it. I quite enjoyed playing that at school to be honest, alongside Cricket (whenever I could have a chance to play either of them... usually it was boring Athletics in the Summer ). I'm surprised Baseball is considered to have less global relevance and weight than American football... because years spent watching Takeshi's Castle meant I do know that Baseball is (or at least certainly was) popular in Japan and has made it across the Pacific, whereas as far as I know American Football has not (indeed the Japanese prefer to play Rugby as far as I gather, as they made an appearance in the Rugby World Cup). That is another good point I had forgotten... historically Americans had beef with British society because of the aristocracy making it 'elitist', but in that regard US society is just as bad if not worse... simply that over there it's those with the sheer dumb brawn required to be a high-profile American Football player are the ones who get fast-tracked to the best universities... not to mention how American culture glorifies the said dumb brawniness of American Football players and what they call the 'jock' mentality (of course not to be excused with Scotsmen over here ) to be the peak of male attractiveness Absolutely that is also a problem with proper football... but it's far less of an issue now than it was in the '70s and '80s. Now the real issue is the corruption and greed behind the game.
If you are asking what type of sports I enjoy watching then: Absolutely none - I've never enjoyed watching any kind of sports. It's always seemed boring to me, and I had no impact on the outcome anyway, and none of it was ever informative for me. The only reason I might watch, would then be if I do the sport myself and might glean some tricks, but that's not so much watching the sport, as it is studying technique. If your question is more what kind of sports i enjoy in general, therefore also what I enjoy doing myself then: Climbing, Jiu-jitsu (previously), parkour and sports like those. In general I like sports where I can just do them by myself if I want to, and challenge myself as well. If I then want to, I can also do the sport with others, but more as a shared individual thing, than a team sport - meaning challenges between people is fine, but the challenge itself is still on an individual basis. I do like the support you can give each other when in a group, but I want to do the actual thing myself.
Colicos' voice portrayal was so good, he really sold that character. No one else can match that performance; it's permanently etched into my brain. Apocalypse was easily my favourite character in X-men animated series. It should be called hand-egg. You know I can never let such a moment go! I can't speak to how things are across the pond, but over here, NFL football is WAAAY bigger than baseball. It isn't even close. The NFL is the single most dominant sports league in the USA. I wonder how the totality of their global fanbases would compare.