So why does the NATIONAL Hockey League call itself that? What nation are they referring to? Canada? The USA? In a league chock full of Swedes, Russians, Czechs, and miscellaneous others? It's just wrong.
International Hockey League would be more suiting, but that name is already taken -- by a minor league outfit to the NHL. Go figure.
The same applies to the National Basketball Association. Presumably, that refers to the United States. But it's equally loaded up with "foreigners" as well. Should stricter immigration laws be put in place to stem the tide of tall skinny guys with a bunch of tattoos that are really good at putting a basketball through a round orifice? I dunno.
Why do they call it the World Series when only American (plus those pesky Blue Jays from Toronto) are allowed to compete? How do we know a team from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, and a few other countries couldn't win the best of seven against the best the Yanks and Canucks have to offer? We don't. The name World Series is just wrong.
On that note, the Little League World Series gets it right, and also wrong. They allow teams the world over to compete, which is right. But they always make sure an American team will be in the Finals, which is highly biased, hence wrong.
In soccer, the title World Cup is appropriate. Any country can compete.
So is the Masters Tournament in golf. You have to have won something before you're even allowed to partake.
NASCAR, the National Association of Stock Car Automobile Racing, is wrong on a couple levels.
First, there's not a "stock" part anywhere on those racing machines.
Second, if it's "National", assuming that means the United States, and given there's not a more "good-ole-boy" sports series anywhere on the planet --- why do they allow Japanese cars (see Toyota) with Japanese motors to compete? Want "national"? KEEP it national, like Fords, Chevies, you know, American cars What's the problem? It's just wrong.
The Super Bowl is OK in professional football. Nobody would question there's a super amount of money wagered on it every year. Billions. But why do they insist on calling teams like the Jets and Giants being from New York, when they play in New Jersey?
Further, why is it the Dallas Cowboys, decidedly west of the Mississippi River, play in the NFC Eastern Conference, when the Rams, until recently located in St. Louis, hundreds of miles east of Dallas, played in the NFC West?
How come the America girls are so good at the above-mentioned world-class soccer, when their male counterparts stink? The latter couldn't even QUALIFY for the next World Cup because they're that bad? They should hang their heads in shame. Who's been in charge of that rag-tag outfit? Whoever it is -- fire him, or her. Better yet, give them a prominent position in the government, with a hefty raise in pay. Perfect. It's the American way. But it's still wrong.
Why is it that American college head coaches can leave their schools for "greener", and I use that term literally, pastures, and make even more millions of dollars?
But the very kids they recruited to play for them, who make nothing, cannot, lest they have to sit out a year of eligibility? How horribly wrong has that always been?
Final thought. Why, tell me WHY is it that so many neighbors walking their rather large dogs seem to think it's perfectly OK for them to drop a massive land mine in my front yard (the canines, not the homo sapiens -- at least so far), but the doggie police check up on me repeatedly to make sure my two toy yorkies, which never leave the fenced backyard, have their licenses and shots (they always do) up to date?
It just ain't right, I tell ya......
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