Posted on 06/11/2010 12:41:38 PM PDT by AJKauf
leaving politics aside, the reason that soccer has not arrived (and may never rise) to the first tier of professional sports in America is tradition and timing. There is no American soccer “tradition” as there is in baseball and football. Even basketball enjoys a tradition far beyond any national memories we have of American soccer....
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I like lutefisk. What do I know that the rest of you schlubs don’t?
The SCM is doing it’s best to shove that soccer crap down our throats. ESPN is all over this junk.
I’m not buying. Don’t care for the game, and haven’t met anyone that likes that game that I like!
That's what they know.
Hence it's increasing popularity in the US.
Nothing. The rest of the world doesn’t have any other options...
“I like lutefisk. What do I know that the rest of you schlubs don’t?”
Nothing, but we now know you have very questionable taste in cuisine. I like leftsa, but no lutefisk for me.
We’re sport saturated.
They should let you use your hands.
Having played soccer competitively from age 6 to 22, I will openly admit that while it's one of the most intense, demanding games to play, it's also one of the very dullest to watch.
It’s a cultural thing. Just like soccer.
Any sport, where the final score is routinely 0 - 0, is a huge waste of time.
American kids play soccer until they’re too old for their parents to make ‘em play soccer - then they switch to REAL sports....
Soccer sucks. That’s all.
Just too darned boring for me. The only time I like FIFA is on my Playstation where I can score something like 37 goals.
I also can’t stand ties. Can’t they swap penalty kicks a few times or something?
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I enjoyed playing soccer as a child, but to sit down and watch a game these days would be equivalent to a root canal.
The rest of the world doesn't have American football, basketball, and baseball, so they focus much of their love of organized sport into soccer.
Actually, it's growing rapidly in the U.S. as well, particularly in schools and colleges.
Americans has Major League baseball and one boring sport is enough.
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