Soccer is great. It won’t work here because there are no timeouts for commercials.
Plus that little problem about no ratings because nobody gives a crap yet.
People who belong here don't .. but 12 million illegals DO give a carp. Shoulda seen those wetbacks when the world cup was going on last year... Practically every bar here they were there and not watching the US coverage .. no they had to watch the Univision coverage in Spanish.
Soccer was big...for about ten minutes. To most Americans, it is a children's game.
Or ever.
I wouldn't be too sure.
I have three different full time Soccer channels on my satellite FSC, GolTV and SETANTA which are supplemented by ESPN2, ESPN Latina and two mexican channels showing soccer a fair amount of the time. You can't find that much NFL football on TV, partly because there ISN'T that much NFL football by comparison.
Somebody must be watching or there wouldn't be so much coverage - just like Talk Radio..!
The World Cup outdrew the World Series in the US last year...
but most those TVs werent speaking English!
You forgot the part about deciding games of over 150 minutes in length by putting a “futbol” in front of a goalie about 8 inches away and seeing if he can stop kicks in a “shoot out.” And then that goes back and forth.
I’d propose a rule modification for ties. If you don’t want to play until everyone drops dead, how about a coin toss? Or better yet, get one of those lawn darts that is razor sharp, get both teams at midfield in a mob, throw the dart in the air, and see which team has a guy willing to take a “header” for the home country!
Good show!