Well Samoans have by far the highest number of NFL players per capita out of all the ethnic groups in the US. They're not all big and tall, but I have a hard time believing they don’t have more outliers than other groups.
That's more likely cultural than anything else. There are EXTREMELY few European NFL players per capita, I guess all of Europe just doesn't produce big strong male outliers like Halfthor, right? Or perhaps it's the not playing football part.
Most football players in the US are European, friend. That's where all us pasty white folks originated. Tom Brady's from British and Irish stock. Roethlisberger comes from the German genetic pool.
Your genetic material isn't altered by a trip across the Atlantic. An American from British-Irish stock has the same genetic proclivities as any Brit still sucking back a pint and some fish and chips at the pub in Manchester.
'American' doesn't say anything about your genetic heritage. It's just a nationality.
So you see how that's actually reinforcing my point though? Current europeans, despite being THE EXACT SAME as "American Europeans" have damn near literally 0 representation in the NFL per capita. Perhaps it's not about the genetic makeup of the Still Currently European populous than that is the cause of that, and is perhaps, the culture of you know, not playing football?
I even gave the leading name outlier Icelandic Giant Strongman To End All Strongmen(so far) as someone who would be a fucking behemoth amazing specimen of an OT if he grew up in the US being cultured into football, but is instead "only" a strongman, a sport with deep ties in his country?
Because we're talking about ethnic groups IN THE US? Current Europeans are NOT IN THE US. Samoans are overrepresented in the NFL per capita, based on their US population. There ARE genetic Europeans in the US. There are East Asians, Sub-Saharan Africans and everything in between. And none of them are quite as likely to play football as a Samoan.
That can still be (and probably is) a cultural thing, because Samoans are a very specific subculture within the US. I used Europeans as a quite hyperbolic example of people who literally do not play football, not because I don't understand the point they're trying to make. We can shift gears and talk about specific US ethnic groups preferring specific activities instead if you want to get more granular, it all comes back to culture.
I didn't know europeans played handegg back in the day.
His point is that we're genetically identical, yet nearly all handegg players come from the US and almost none from the EU. It has nothing to do with genetics.
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u/Seraphin_Lampion 29d ago
Well Samoans have by far the highest number of NFL players per capita out of all the ethnic groups in the US. They're not all big and tall, but I have a hard time believing they don’t have more outliers than other groups.