@ryanswalters73@NathanShumate Say the words, "It was historically common in the early 19th century for Protestant churches in the USA to have the cross on top of their buildings" or admit that you moved the goalposts.
@hmn_alchemy@BeersBowman@usmntonly I probably should have clarified earlier that I was looking at championship parity specifically. And for the record, I fully support some sort of relegation model in our college sports, but feel it's unnecessary in any of our pro leagues.
@hmn_alchemy@BeersBowman@usmntonly Euro soccer give the illusion of parity, but the reality is that teams never get promoted into a major league and win it. The only examples I know of, are powerhouse teams having a brief relegation then becoming powerhouses again. The NFL and NBA actually have championship parity
@hmn_alchemy@BeersBowman@usmntonly To be clear, I agree that American leagues reward losing, but that by doing so they increase parity. Every professional sports league in America has more parity than high level European soccer leagues.
@hmn_alchemy@BeersBowman@usmntonly On twitter?? Lol. You're just trying to move the goalposts as far as possible so you can deflect from the bad point you tried to make.
@hmn_alchemy@BeersBowman@usmntonly With the huge number of teams that could potentially qualify for the champions league, the fact that only 7 teams have won shows a massive lack of parity since those seven teams are less than 10% of the teams who could potentially qualify.
@hmn_alchemy@BeersBowman@usmntonly I haven't changed anything, it just said "teams" from the first tweet. And no, there isn't good parity between a dozen teams. 7 teams have won in 15 years.
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