[TheyConvictedOglethorpe]

"Soccer's just one more bizarre Euro-enthusiasm that never took hold in the U.S., despite a lot of preaching that it would be good for us.

And as a number of posters have pointed out, the preaching is precisely the problem. We don't accept soccer for the same reason we reject women's basketball: it's not just being offered in the marketplace as an entertainment option, it's being pushed in our faces -- and we distrust the underlying agendas of many of the people doing the pushing.

[codebreaker]

Women can't dunk (for the most part) that takes away a lot of the excitement for some people.

[codebreaker]

Good theory.

[IowaHawk]

Every Super Bowl, you hear the old cliche: "There are a billion people in China who just don't care."

Fair enough. But let's all admit it: whenever there's a World Cup, there are 300 million Americans who just don't care.

And we'll never care. Ask the of morons who've gone bankrupt over the last thirty years, thinking that the US was finally, finally, ready to love "the World Game." Like a tribe of headhunters, we'll boil your soccer missionaries in red ink and lay out their shrunken hides as a warning -- the NASL, the MISL, XYZSL.

Sorry, 'footie' enthusiasts, the MSL is headed for the same graveyard. This 'Major League' is strictly single-A minor, a joke that is somewhere lower on the sports food chain than Arena Football-2. Due to the embarrassingly sparse crowds at Soldier Field, the 'Chicago' Fire now plays in a high school football stadium in Naperville. And they still can't fill it up.