[newfreep]

I find soccer extremely boring and not unlike watching grass grow.

That said, the “media” seems to be pushing this world cup crap down our throat to force us to join the one world community.

It’s despicable...and it’s not American!

[lodi90]

I find soccer extremely boring and not unlike watching grass grow.

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I feel the same way about baseball. I grew up on it and can’t stand to watch it on TV now. I much prefer soccer now. The international aspect is great. No matter where someone is from in the world you always can talk soccer.

[BeadCounter]

The first time soccer (or, as it was called then, “socker”) was seriously put forward as an American trend was in 1905, when President Teddy Roosevelt strayed quite far from his Rough Rider roots by asserting people needn’t die playing American football.

Imagine that.

USA actually has a long history in playing soccer; the early colonists played soccer, USA was actually a SEMIFINALIST in the FIRST WORLD CUP in 1930.

Despite people often bringing up English and other countries' hooliganism, there were soccer riots in America decades ago.

USA played our first match as team USA back in 1885 vs. Canada, our first real sanctioned match against Sweden in 1916.

[the scotsman]

None of your major sports are.

Football is based on rugby, basketball was the idea of a Canadian, ice hockey Canuck again, tennis English, golf Scottish, and baseball was in fact invented in 18th C England and is based on a childrens game called rounders. Jane Austin even mentions playing ‘base ball’ in the first chapter of Northanger Abbey in 1811.

The only American sport, with a French name, is Native American.