[C. Edmund Wright]

Surprisingly, there was not any reference to soccer in the article or any attempt to indicate that any particular sport would or should “replace” football.

Soccer is very much a socailist type sport. Will never catch on like football, even if football were to suffer greatly from concussions.

[muawiyah]

Soccer is totally devoid of any political or other value. There is no point to it at all.

American football, however, takes on the cast of chess ~ a Russian favorite, particularly during the era of the Soviets!

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I don't know if I'd call soccer a socialist sport. There's no coddling of under performing teams as in American pro sports. Finish last in a soccer league and it's off to the minor league for the squad and a team that wins in the lower lever moves up. The invisible hand works better in soccer than in US sports.