World champions?

[TwoGloves]

I see the Colts hung their banner last night. Says world champions. That bother anyone else? I mean, they're NFL or Super Bowl champions. They didn't play anyone from the CFL. I realize they'd kick the snot out of a CFL team but the bottom line is they're not "world" champions. Same goes with the NBA. Do they play teams from overseas? Nope. Or baseball. Do they play the Cubans or Japanese? Nope.

 

[beefncheddar]

Yes, I'm bothered.

Should have been World Charmions.

 

[WazzuGrad00]

I think the NFL is the only league where the championship game winner has a legitimate claim to the "World Champion" title.

 

[GB-Hack]

I always thought the World League champion got that title.....

 

[Knighthawk]

I think the NFL is the only league where the championship game winner has a legitimate claim to the "World Champion" title.

No, the Spurs can say they are the world champs, because Trajan Langdon started in the 2007 EuroLeague championship game, which automatically removes the entire league from serious consideration. :P

(The women's EuroLeague champs, on the other hand, had Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Tina Thompson and Tamika Whitmore, so the WNBA could end up in a situation where their champs aren't even <i>Taurasi's</i> best team, much less the world's.)

 

[SnoopyBoy]

I with TwoGloves, I hate the term and never use it. If a team is defending World Series champion, that's what I call them. Or Super Bowl champion on NBA champion. World champion is for the World Cup.

 

[TwoGloves]

I think the only major sport that doesn't use the term world champion is hockey. You're the Stanley Cup champion. No wonder so many people think Americans are arrogant.

 

[JR]

No wonder so many people think Americans are arrogant.

Under the present regime, commments like that can end you up in Guantanamo

 

[cjericho]

I think the NFL is the only league where the championship game winner has a legitimate claim to the "World Champion" title.

Huh??? Are the World Series champs not World Camps because Japan won the WBC?

 

[Yodel]

There are other countries beside ours? If I only had a map...

 

[hockeybeat]

There are other countries beside ours? If I only had a map...

The Iraq has a great football league. They throw bombs all game long.

 

[Football_Bat]

There are other countries beside ours? If I only had a map...

The Iraq has a great football league. They throw bombs all game long.

Such as.

 

[MN Matt]

There are other countries beside ours? If I only had a map...

The Iraq has a great football league. They throw bombs all game long.

And they are currently the Asian Football Champions

 

[DocTalk]

There are other countries beside ours? If I only had a map...

And I would....uh, the Iran and South Africa and...uh, South Carolina

 

[farmerjerome]

I hate world champions. It's like when a big newspaper crowns "national champions" in high school sports.

 

[Football_Bat]

My hatred of "World Champions" is lifelong, and it started when I was a kid from reading Red Smith's account of the '78 World Series.