Soccer is freaking BORING!!! It’s taken until my 40’s to fully grasp the nuances of baseball and I must admit, it’s a pretty cool game.(OK, age and a 52-inch HD plasma TV helped.) The real reason, though, is that Americans are wealthy enough to put their kids in baseball, football, hockey, or any other spectator-friendly sport. As a society, we have our choice of sports to participate in and be spectators of rather than a lengthy, coma-inducing ‘sport’ like soccer. The Left hates the fact that America has more disposable income than the rest of the world. It shows in their love of ‘girly’ sports like soccer and their hatred of ‘manly’ sports like baseball, football and hockey.
Sorry to ramble but I loathe soccer. I would rather watch paint dry or clean out my spice rack than watch a soccer match.
LOL!...my friend, who has a 14 yr old son that plays baseball says that if anybody thinks baseball is too slow, try being the official scorekeeper!
Soccer is one of the easiest games to play on an unorganized basis. All one needs is a ball. That’s why everyone in the world is better than us at it.
In the US we tend toward “organized” sports. Baseball needs more equipment. Football can be played with just a ball, but you’re crazy (like my teenage son and his friends are) to play tackle football without equipment. Hockey needs all sorts of stuff.
But the US version of organized soccer on the competitive or select level can run into the thousands. The equipment is still cheap if you stay away from the $200.00 cleats and $40 balls (which invariably get lost). So I don’t think it’s really an economic issue at all.