[Phantom Lord]

Baseball was around for decades before it became the "national pastime."

Kind of hard to watch the games when there was no TV for those many many decades. And when all the games were played during the day while everybody else was at work. And most jobs didnt provide someone with a cube or office where they could listen to it on the radio. Especially since radios were not portable!

Soccer has come to be in America at a time when everyone has a tv and portable radio. It has had more advantages than any other sport in history and it still fails.

[Cincinatus]

I still claim that it's too soon to tell. I don't care for it, but it has its following. I notice that the pro-soccer crowd seems notably younger than its detractors.

[Rebel-without-a-pause]

Soccer has come to be in America at a time when everyone has a tv and portable radio. It has had more advantages than any other sport in history and it still fails.

That is all so true, but I have not heard anyone comment on how synchronized swimming is growing by leaps and bounds.