countries. It being a "better game" isn't one of them. The post I responded to, after talking about their excitement for the game, concluded that "there is a reason it is the most popular sport in the world." The reasons it's the most popular sport have to do with timing, socioeconomics, demographics, culture, etc. Not because of the game itself.

My initial post only mentioned economics. That was mostly because I was being flippant and partly because I was tapping it out one finger at a time on a tablet and didn't feel like writing a thesis that way.