[C. Edmund Wright]

Yeah, that's why soccer's so popular in that Communist paradise known as Cuba.... No wait, it's not. They all like baseball. In other words, stop making a fool out of yourself on FR by talking about things you know NOTHING about!

Thank you for proving how humorless soccer elites are, not to mention woeful at reading comprehension. I have played and observed soccer for 40 years and know a lot about the game. I think as a rec sport is it fabulous, but I do think the whole concept of soccer as the worlds 'most popular sport' is simply flawed and I like to make fun of that aspect of soccer. I also think the lack of a real risk reward equation (and yes, it does exist to some extent but not nearly the amount in football or basketball) keeps it too low scoring and too un dramatic for American audiences.

Now, having said that, your logic about baseball being popular in Cuba and Cuba being a socialist country misses the point entirely. I am talking about the essence of the sport as being socialist and not about the economic system of those who like it or don't like it. You have proven prickly, humorless, and not very percetpive.

[safeasthebanks]

Again, you're making a HUGE, GIGANTIC, fool of yourself! Please, please stop before you lower the overall IQ of this site so much that the internet cops shut it down.

But thanks for the laugh (and, yes, I'm laughing AT you, not with you.)

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Soccer will remain a joke as long as it allows the possibility that the whole two-year process of determining a World Champion can boil down to the equivalent of a free-throw contest. If soccer doesn't take itself seriously, Americans won't either.