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It is incorrect to call the league titles that these teams have won "world championships". There are teams from at most 2 countries playing in the leagues. I suggest changing this to "league" or "north american" champions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.176.152.11 ( talk) 23:42, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
-A World Club Championship does not have to be representative of teams from every corner of the globe but instead needs only to encorporate every team that plays in what are regarded as the regions that have attained a standard that would make their regional champion competitive in any World Championship scenario. This principal was applied to Soccer's World Club Championship from the 1960s to the 1990s when the title was a play-off between only the European and South American Champions. Since 2000 the competition has increased to cover all regions of the planet so that in theory every team on earth has the chance to one day be World Champions. This still hasn't stopped every final to date being between teams from South America and Europe, albeit that their games against teams from other regions are competitive. When this principal is applied to the four key sports in the United States perhaps only Football can sit comfotably with the title World Champions as there are no leagues elsewhere in the world of a sufficent standard to challenge NFL's claim to have the World Champions. It is likely that if such a challenege ever emerges NFL will embrace some form of game against the Superbowl Champions as they have an aim to be the World's number two sport by 2025 and work closely with Soccer's governing body to replicate it's infrastucture. Baseball's World Series is still a fair World Championship but it is likely that this status will be challenged in the next 25 years by growing standards of Baseball in Asia. Basketball and Hockey's North American Champions should not be called World Champions and their status as such on this page should be changed. European Basketball is not as strong as North American Basketball but is of a sufficient standard to merit a World title play-off. While the North Americans would still be favourites to win this title it is reasonable to suggest that in any given decade the European team would be crowned champions at least twice. Hockey cannot possibly lay a claim to a World title as the standard of hockey played in Scandanavia and the former Soviet Union is, if anything, higher than in North America. Touring European teams regularly defeat their North American opponents and while the Europeans would be the underdogs in a basketball World Title it is equally fair to suggest they would be favourites in a Hockey equivilant. Captainbeecher ( talk) 09:51, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
- A lead section, when added, should note the fact that California has more professional sports teams than any other state. (This is true overall, but also just looking at the Big Four of MLB, NHL, NFL, and NBA.) — Preceding
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