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Gamingboy
June 20th, 2004, 02:55 PM
Find a way that US culture such as:

Mcdonald's
Baseball
American Football
and American TV shows

would be popular everywhere in the world by 2004.

tom
June 20th, 2004, 05:35 PM
I this a Double Blind?

Tyr
June 20th, 2004, 05:40 PM
No, American football is only in America I think and baseball is only in America and the far east.
Also you then have some nations which hate anything American.

Pax Britannia
June 20th, 2004, 07:40 PM
America TV shows and Mcdonalds are quite popular in the UK but baseball and american football is virtually unknown. I assume its largely the same in other countries.

Fiji
June 21st, 2004, 06:53 AM
yep, I frequently go by the largest and most successful (by far) Belgian baseball team ... their "stadium" seats about 150 spectators and during absolute top games they manage to fill about a third of that.

And by getting results like these, they surpass the number 1 American football team by quite a bit.

The artificial attempt to jumpstart Am. Football in Europe ... by setting up entirely American/Canadian teams in several European capitols was a huge failure. No one cared. Exactly 1 native (a Spanish player) was allowed to play ... about 3 minutes.
I forced myself to watch at least 3 games and was completely bored out of my skull after 15 minutes of ...
x seconds of action (with X being between 5 and 30)
y seconds of setting up the line 2 meters further along (with y being between 30 and 300)

as far as egg shaped balls go ... I prefer rugby by far

you'll need a pretty huge POD to get Europeans to like Am football ... probably even some pretty hefty rules changes