why are some sports only popular in certain places?

**BigDaddyCool** · 03-31-2011, 05:58 PM

Hockey is easy to answer. In Canada, Norway and Russia you have frozen lakes you and play on all winter. Further south you have to make your own ice to play on. Also in the north, where you have frozen lakes to skate on for free, you are more likely to own more stuff to go skating with. So the cost of specialization increase the warmer you get. Pretty easy to figure out why hockey caught on up north.

03-31-2011, 05:58 PM	#5
BigDaddyCool Pelvic Sorcerer Posts: 64,762	Hockey is easy to answer. In Canada, Norway and Russia you have frozen lakes you and play on all winter. Further south you have to make your own ice to play on. Also in the north, where you have frozen lakes to skate on for free, you are more likely to own more stuff to go skating with. So the cost of specialization increase the warmer you get. Pretty easy to figure out why hockey caught on up north.