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Originally Posted by St. Pats
There were plenty of examples and you chose to ignore them. Countries with less population by far and still with top level, 2nd level, 3rd level and beyond in the sports they are passionate about. Scotland with a population that probably ain't more than the GTA has an entire league of professionally paid soccer players. Two pro teams of rugby playing at the highest level. Plenty of leagues under that. Denmark with the same sort of population with tons of professional teams and able to compete on the highest level with a fraction of our population. Sweden with only 9 million people again with multiple leagues.
Plenty of other countries could be listed and you want to compare that with--oh yeah we have more people sitting in bars watching TV.
Face the facts. Sports in this country is horridly supported. You can go to a high school game of any sport and the crowd will be in the tens. Go to a Uni game of any sport and you might crack into a thousand or so. Meanwhile in some little hick town in the States they will get thousands for a game of anything.
Hundreds of thousands showing up every week all over the USA to watch dang near anything. 300 million to 30 having very little to do with it because they have so many more teams they support. They have sports engrained in the culture. We don't. As does many a country in Europe and Asia and elsewhere. Just not a Canadian thing.
Oh and that women's basketball league in Australia gives women a chance to play at the highest level. Women from that league have moved on to play in the WNBA. Where is that opportunity for women in any sport in Canada?
That's the real crux of it. There should be all kinds of opportunity for our athletes. There should be a least a bush league for basketball along the lines of the CFL. Certainly should be able to have a whole bunch of MLS teams. We are willing to support a far, far watered down product from the NFL in the CFL so why not for basketball, soccer and baseball? Or anything for women whatsoever.
Why do we have such pathetic support for our University teams? Are you going to tell me that in the US they have huge crowds at hundreds of Uni's for all kinds of sports because of their population?
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Nobody is stopping you from starting it. Model it after the WNBA, you'll make millions just like it does
