Also basketball and football are American sports. Soccer is a worldwide game, hence the World Cup. One World Cup playoff game has more viewers than the Super Bowl, worldwide. American football may not be as popular worldwide because it is quite boring. The average amount of actual play in any pro football game is something on the order of 12 minutes. Not 12 minutes per quarter, 12 minutes through the ENTIRE game.
In the land of basketball, there aren't many basketball leagues around the world beside the NBA. So you throw a couple dozen pro US players against an amateur team from another country and you have a US team that plays golf when they aren't playing basketball creaming teams that are spending their spare time at practice trying to get a little bit more of an edge over the next team they play.
It's hard to get out of the mentality that there are other sports besides American sports.
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