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Rugby’s not that obscure or local. The Six Nations mentioned include England, France and Italy.
by leoc 1y ago
Rugby’s not that obscure or local. The Six Nations mentioned include England, France and Italy.
- prerok 1y agoNeither is skiing or ski jumping, but it is limited in the sense of exposure. I bet most people would not be able to name the best ski jumper in 1995, but a lot of people in my country would.
- leoc 1y agoI can't really name any ski-jumping results from memory, and I have only the fuzziest recall of its history. But I haven't claimed and wouldn't claim that ski-jumping is an "obscure, hyper-local" sport, either, so this is not really relevant. "Hyper-local" would be something like road bowling.
- btilly 1y agoFor what it is worth, when I hear "Six Nations", I think "Iroquois Confederacy". And as parochial as you think that American sports are, the USA has a population that is half again as big as the "Six Nations" that you intended. And here is an important fact. Most people in the world who speak English as their first language, live in the USA. The dominance of American perspectives in online conversations in English reflects our actual representation among native English speakers.