Why is that great news?
Sorry. I don't get it.
But to those who do - Play On, Lads!
I call BS on this survey.
World Cup? Isn't that the sailboat thing?
# 1. It appears that NBA Finals are no longer as popular as they used to be.
# 2. Only 52% of Americans is aware of Major League Soccer in the USA.
Soccer has no real fan base in America thank God.
It's beyond boring.
I happen to belong to the other 88% to 94% who never watch professional sports. I have no clue why radio stations fail to broadcast an otherwise popular regular program to substitute Professional sports?
It makes no sense.
Uh-oh. You sparked BurbankKarl into a breathless rage as he seeks to deny poll results he doesn't like.
Did they really name it the World Cup, because they realized it needed more support?
I've probably watched about ten minutes of soccer in my life. I'm sorry I wasted that much time on it.
Soccer: more boring than golf.
It's amusing because Foreign Big Money in Football/soccer has done everything possible to make soccer a big time sport in the US. They started with little kids on Sat. am, all those small towns around the US with soccer moms and dads running the kids to games and practice in between jaunts to the town dump. They moaned on NPR that baseball and football...not to mention basketball...had an unfair advantage since those sports swallowed up most of America's attention and money.
They want the US totally involved in soccer, to the point of mania, ala Brazil, Mexico, the UK, Germany, etc.. All they see are dollar signs, and they're finding the US a tough nut to crack. Doubtless, with broken borders and twenty four million illegal aliens already here, soccer will become much more popular. One Happy Hemisphere will see the rest of the hemisphere moving north, bringing soccer mania with them. It's all about money. The US has a national 'identity', a history of sports, and it's baseball and football, not soccer.
". . .just 5% of the nation’s adults thought it was very likely the U.S. team would win the tournament."
I think they all live in my neighborhood and were at the
Circle K down the street the day the U.S. was eliminated.
Personally, I have nothing against soccer, but I have no interest in it either. It's like the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. I have been struggling to figure out why I feel this way about soccer. I have watched about 10 minutes of this world cup on TV, and I think I know why Americans don't like it. Soccer does not allow players to score and advance through use of their hands, just their feet. Americans carved out a wilderness with their hands. They fought Indians, who threw tomahawks and shot arrows with their hands, using firearms with their hands, and over time developed more elaborate weapons, all involving use of the hands. We don't kick a hand grenade into an enemy trench, we throw it, and then we jump inside and jab the bayonet that we hold in our hands.
Sports are a form of peaceful competition that allow people to "fight" without killing each other. They reflect the attitudes of the people who engage in them towards conflict. Soccer is a way of using circus tricks to roll a ball downfield to get near enough to the goal that you can take a shot. Football, basketball, baseball and even hockey use the legs for speed and maneuver, but use the hands and arms to score. A football pass is like an artillery strike, or a long range missile. A strikeout is like destroying an opponent in swordplay. A basehit is like engaging the enemy on the front lines. Scoring a run on a hit is like outflanking that enemy. A basket is like a rifle shot at an enemy. A three pointer is like a sniper taking out a high value target. And so on.
Soccer? What is soccer? How do you defend yourself in a dangerous world with your feet? We simply don't respect soccer because it does not have skills that translate to manliness, notwithstanding the athletic talent that is required. Sorry to all you soccer fans, but I think that explains American attitudes.
Even around the world, nobody pays attention to World Cup when their country is out of it. It's just a fascist exercise of nationalism.