The Sports themselves (American Football, Basketball, Baseball and Ice Hockey vs "Football," cricket, rugby )
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Top 10 Differences between North American and UK Sports Culture
#2
Suggested by
Freemantle_uk
Sponsorship on shirts in the UK
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#3
Suggested by
drewbrown
They are much more focused on one sport: Soccer. Their other sports are not as close as Basketball, Baseball, and Hockey are in the US.
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#4
Suggested by
kenn1987
UK Sporting Fans show interest in non UK leagues, U.S. sports fans are not really interested in non U.S. leagues (with the exception that a lot of N.A. audience watch Premier league football)
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Jamie Murphy
7 years ago Report
This is why pay TV sports channels have dedicated channels for that (Those are Sky Sports 5 and BT Sport Europe).
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#5
Suggested by
drewbrown
Pubs in UK have a more family culture; US bars don't
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drewbrown
7 years ago Report
Oops, nevermind ... thought it was general culture.
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#6
Suggested by
kenn1987
North American College sports nearly as popular, if not more so, than professional leagues.
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Michael Ross
7 years ago Report
That's only true of some isolated pockets where all of the national teams are horrible, and of old people who love how college sports are so much more predictable.
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#7
Suggested by
kenn1987
North American leagues practice imbalanced scheduling due to travel distances. Not an issue in the UK
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#8
Suggested by
kenn1987
North American leagues have policies in place to prevent the domination of a few dynastic teams.
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#9
Suggested by
Freemantle_uk
Chanting in football in the UK vs. a controlled in environment in the US
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#10
Suggested by
drewbrown
Darts ... the U.S. doesn't have a bar-culture sport like darts, where there's a PL Darts played in basically a gigantic beer hall.
