How many people complain about and dont understand why people watch golf on tv? A lot.
But baseball fans and golf fans dont behave the way soccer fans do when it comes to trying to sell their sport. If soccer fans werent obnoxious about and have a condescending attitude toward non fans, us non fans wouldnt say the things we do about the sport.
I like all sports (except maybe yachting), but can understand why some people find baseball boring.
How many people complain about and dont understand why people watch golf on tv? A lot.
True. But a complaint is all it amounts to really, and maybe a snide comment or two about the clothes they wear. You never hear a bunch of 'commie socialist fag' comments about golfers. But baseball fans and golf fans dont behave the way soccer fans do when it comes to trying to sell their sport. If soccer fans werent obnoxious about and have a condescending attitude toward non fans, us non fans wouldnt say the things we do about the sport.
I see it the other way around. It is the non-fans that have a condescending attitude towards soccer. Of course, the argument has been going on long enough where both sides have been pretty petty about it forever....
And I agree with an earlier reply that the assumption that soccer is 'Liberal' is completely off-target. What do liberals hate the most? Overt displays of patriotism or nationalism. Now, what does the World Cup represent?
The conservative thing to do is learn to play this sport well enough to kick butt. Then kick butt again. And keep kicking butt until "they" shut up. It's the American way.