'Europeans think our baseball is as boring as we think their soccer is. Spaniards think our boxing is as disgusting as we think their bullfighting is.'
Can't speak for the eurolosers, but us Brits think all of your games are dull. Can't understand why a country like the USA can have no national pride when it comes to team sports, instead preferring to stay at home for fear of losing to a foreign team. Doesn't the idea of humiliating countries like Iran, Mexico and France at the game they love most appeal a little bit? ;-)
And what's this 'our Boxing' bit? Boxing like, just about every other sport is a British invention! :D
We have fifty little countries over here to contend with no need to go play second string nations.
Nothing can be more boring than your snooker. When Steve Davis is a national icon in Britain (snooker champ), and snooker is a TV ratings success on British TV, you Brits have no room to criticize any other sport as being boring.
That is tempting, I admit. But I was not aware the U.S. stayed home; I thought we had a national team. The other thing is, all of our best athletes play a sport they can make a lot of money at. For example, I don't have the exact numbers at hand, but the MINIMUM yearly salary in Major League Baseball is around $380,000. The best paid MLB player is making somewhere around $18,000,000 a year. What will a soccer player make? Where's the incentive for a elite athlete in the U.S. to take up soccer?