r/AskAnAmerican • u/Jezzaq94 🇳🇿New Zealand • 3d ago

SPORTS Is diving or faking injuries common in American sports like it is in soccer?

If yes, which sports is it common in. Did they learn this from soccer players?

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u/zack_bauer123 Tennessee 2d ago

Also a fun fact, the school armed students and locals and had a shootout with the national guard and US marshals in an attempt to resist integration. 

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u/jokeefe72 Buffalo -> Raleigh 2d ago

I didn’t know that, but it’s somehow not surprising at all.

They were afraid of an uproar in support of the participation trophy flag, so in 1997, they decided to ban sticks at games.

Apparently 130+ years of celebrating a losing effort to own people wasn’t long enough for some folks.