Having read this piece in the paper edition of the WSJ this morning, where it’s titled differently, and cleverly, I was hoping to get here before the highly original, unanticipated and persuasive posts like “boring”, “for faggots”, and “Socialist”, but I failed again.
The rise of soccer in the US was not brought about by poor peasants from other countries (although they play it), it was brought about by the upper middle class liberal mothers afraid that Johnny would get hurt playing American football (nevermind soccer players take more balls to the face than Liberace, but I digress). Soccer, to the average American, smacks of European elitism.
And has anyone noticed that professional soccer leagues in the US have had the staying power of a liberal talk show host? No matter how much the soccer advocates say soccer is better, the American public hasn't bought into the hype.