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Yeah but you have to admit that watching five guys change tires and fill up a gas tank is pretty exciting and those guys are pretty athletic. I'll bet any one of those tire-changers could last at least three minutes running up and down a soccer field.

Then there's the whole Dale "Angel" Earnhardt thing. Dude was considered a dirty driver by many and his nickname was "The Intimidator" -- yet he dies on the track and becomes St. Dale.

The other point about world football vs. US football is that world football is capitalistic -- the teams that advance the furthest make the most money, both on a club and international level. There are rich teams and poor teams. The weak get relegated and the strong get promoted.

US Football, by contrast, is Communist -- TV revenues are shared, there is a hard salary cap, the weaker you are the better your draft position and the easier your schedule -- it's all right out of the Karl Marx playbook.

US Football, by contrast, is Communist -- TV revenues are shared, there is a hard salary cap, the weaker you are the better your draft position and the easier your schedule -- it's all right out of the Karl Marx playbook.

Your're right. Most US sports (not only US soccer) use the same rubric -- weak teams are rewarded with top draft picks and easier schedules, with revenue sharing, and you have salary caps.

Can you imagine if the KC Royals or Tampa Bay Devil Rays were to be relegated to Triple-A instead of stinking up the Major League baseball year after year, or if the Atlanta Hawks or NY Knicks were to be relegated to the CBA (or division 2) basketball due to their poor records? Instead of the "let's lose so we get a higher draft pick" shenanigans, bad teams would be pulling out all stops to win games at the end of the season to escape the "relegation zone".

It's amusing that some would call soccer "communistic" or "communist plot", when it is the American sports that follow the communistic path, and as you state, it's non-US soccer following the capitalistic path.

And BTW, I like baseball, basketball, and (American) football, as well as soccer, so I'm not looking at this with any hatred toward the other sports -- just an observation.