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Soccer is the only game I can watch and stay interested in. (Basketball to a lesser degree.) I'd rather watch grass grow than waste time watching interminable football games, and baseball's interesting only when the Diamondbacks play;-)

Soccer really is a great game. It does require some smarts and creativity, though.

You bet. A helluva lot better than 12 minutes of the ball in play during a 3-4 hour pointyball borefest.

The reason we should not follow the billions of soccer fans in the rest of the world is because we are better than they. That's why they copy us. Baseball, football and basketball are American inventions. They bare as much likeness to European or Aztek games as wrestling does to darts. Our sports are growing in foreign countries. The average score of a World Cup soccer game is 1-0...as with the Champion French team's defeat at the hands (or feet) of the mighty team from Bornio (or whatever non-descript country it was). The thing that irks me most about American soccer enthusiasts is their dishonesty. They put out propaganda that it's the "fastest growing sport in America" but I heard that in 1971. I'm still waiting for TV share ratings to go above 1%. And as for the success of the USA women's team. It's fake. Women don't play soccer in other countries. It was all an invention of the fems to create a World Cup where none ever existed. Foreign countries had to hurriedly find athletes from other sports to compete in an arena we built. Then, surprise..we won. Wow.

I just finished reading the rest of the thread:-)

I do hope FIFA won't give over to pressure (American?) and change the offsides rule. (Part of the fun is the difficulty in scoring.) Soccer would be completely ruined without it, AND shootouts;-)

How can anyone sit through a shootout and be bored???