Between the National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association and (increasingly) NASCAR, these sports have pretty much taken most of the fan interest and advertising dollars for sporting events. This is not like most of the world, where soccer is essentially the ONLY major sport that fans and advertising dollars are interested in.
Because Americans think that any sport where you can't use your hands is silly.
Ever since they stopped using the heads of the team-members that previously lost their games as balls, it just hasn't held the same fascination here.
Because we expend that energy worshipping a magic bean, called a "football."
Soccer's boring.Even more boring than baseball.
It just never ends. Articles like this beget comments like those above which beget articles like this which beget comments like those above. You don't like soccer? Don't want to cheer for your country? Fine. Now STFU.
In order to appreciate the game, you need to understand it. You can't appreciate a pass in soccer unless you can compare it to a Magic Johnson pass in basketball.
Most Americans have no reference and as a result bask in ignorance.
I'll be joining most of the billions on the planet watching the tournament with more interests than the Texas Rangers.
To most of the world, watching baseball is akin to watching your tomatoes grow.
There is no greater sporting event thatn the World Cup. Nothing.
SD
The complaint that there isn’t enough scoring I can understand – even if I disagree with it as the low scoring nature of soccer is what makes it so tense.
What I’ve never really understood is the American aversion to draws. In a league format (which the World Cup initially is), what exactly is the problem with a draw? Sport should be an abstraction of life. There isn’t always a clear cut winner in life’s encounters.
So why did Fox itself launch FoxSoccer / Foxsoccer.com ? Ah, well, yes, the demand on the free market made it do so.
So one probably shouldn't read to much into it. Just let the psychobabble stop and the games begin ;-) !
what people really want to see is the
UFC
If you have guys playing basketball on one corner, football in the other, stickball down the street and a fight breaks out..... where does everybody go???
'nuff said... /sarc... kinda
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The author's very first sentence is an insult to anyone who doesn't think like the author! He/she is telling me that if I don't like soccer I'm "spoiled." It actually makes the author look like a spoiled brat.
I think we Americans do recognize the importance of soccer. Soccer is NOT important. There, I've recognized it.
One theory I read about this is that soccer is a third-world sport: all that is really needed to play is a ball, the rest can be improvised.
The closest one comes to this among US sports is baseball, whose "stickball" variant needs only the most rudimentary tools.
But Americans can afford baseball gloves and bats; and football helmets, pads and cleats; and basketball hoops with a paved surface for dribbling; and used cars to "soup up" and so forth, so we play the more sophisticated sports.
And NASCAR means little to someone who's never owned a car, or even driven one. Baseball means nothing to someone who's never stood in the batter's box or stretched to catch a line drive. Yet with just a simple soccer ball, anyone can try kicking, passing, handling, rolling, etc.
'Cuz its a crappy third world sport played by sweaty little frenchmen with long hair.
American football is not real football. Real football is when you kick the ball with your feet. That's how football in the rest of the world got its name. Lazy Americans substituted soccer because they couldn't come up with a term to describe carrying a ball in the hands across the field. The English already had rugby.