What you have to remember is that the yanks rejected sports that every other fucker on the planet played and made their own out of bits of the sports they rejected: American football from rugby and football, baseball from cricket and fuck knows where basket ball comes from (netball?). I think they invented lacrosse as well from butterfly nets that some fucker found in a shed. I went to a college football match in Arkansas back in the 80s and was bored shitless. I went to see the Toronto Blue Jays and got pissed on the buckets of beer they sold (so at least that softened things up) and turned down the chance to a basketball match at MSG last year. Can't remember what the team was called, (New York Mets)?