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The Liverpooligans vs. The Bilderburg Bluebloods

June 6, 2013 by at 9:39 am

In the US, however, spectator sports were organized from the top of society down, which has largely kept them from being a vehicle for mass populism. For example, American football evolved among rivalries between universities with national pretensions: Harvard v. Yale, Army v. Navy, and Notre Dame v. USC.

Similarly, professional sports in the US always had a strongly corporate, upper-middle-class air. For instance, the most celebrated game in professional football history, Broadway Joe Namath’s New York Jets’ victory over the Baltimore Colts in the 1969 Super Bowl, was a victory for the national media’s home team.

In the 1890s, baseball’s sole major league, the National League, was being taken over by Irish brawlers such as the crafty John McGraw of the Baltimore Orioles. Thus, ballparks attracted a lower class of fan. In 1901 entrepreneur Ban Johnson founded the rival American League to provide a more honest and gentlemanly version of the game that would appeal to WASP and German-American families. Johnson’s league has remained dominant for most of the last eleven decades.

In contrast, European soccer clubs mostly emerged from their indigenous communities. European soccer teams sponsored local youth leagues that served as feeder systems for talent. American college basketball coaches, though, are lauded not for their training, but for scouring distant slums to recruit genetically gifted one-and-done stars.

 

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  1. MrsDarwin says
    June 6, 2013 at 10:14 am

    This explains why I’ve never liked the AL.

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  2. Big Jon, Bully says
    June 6, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    Too much to bear, really. Oh the madness. And civilized folks in Britain can’t even defend themselves. I wonder why the elites really believe they can control the blowback. And it would take more than hand puppets to explain to some zealous Chechin or Albanian why it’s unmanly to freeload off your wife while you abuse her. These people are medieval and exactly what we deserve.

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  3. Harry Crane's Sleazy Sportcoat says
    June 7, 2013 at 12:01 am

    Imagine Joe Namath in a straw hat.

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