Why isn't Soccer popular in America?

Why isn't Soccer popular in America?

  • Too many other sports to watch

    Votes: 46 19.8%

  • The best players play in Europe

    Votes: 23 9.9%

  • Most American's don't understand the game

    Votes: 76 32.8%

  • Most games aren't played during prime time on TV

    Votes: 12 5.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 75 32.3%
  • Total voters
    232
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Ace Bandage

Ace Bandage

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imsohorny said:
dude baseball sucks.
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No, really it doesn't. If I have to choose a sport to watch in person, I'll choose baseball every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Nothing (and I mean, nothing) beats at a day at the ballpark. Give me a beer, some peanuts, and tickets to The Friendly Confines, and I'm ready for a perfect day.
 
B

Bloodshot Scott

My area doesn't have a pro soccer team. If I had to choose in order what I would like to watch live among the pro sports I have in my state, I'd say (in this order):

NHL
College Hockey (not pro, but WCHA is the shit!) :D
MLB
Soccer
NBA
NFL
MLS (Lacrosse)

Still, of those sports I loved playing hockey and soccer the best. ;)
 
Moonchild22

Moonchild22

I'd rather watch monkeys throw their feces at each other. They laugh, I laugh. Everybody wins.
 
Lonilover

Lonilover

it's just a matter of interest in each country. Americe has a lot of interest in Basebal , basketball and so on.. like India and Pakistan like Cricket, Most of Europe likes Football (soccer in American ), that is the most logical explanation i can give.
 
PlasmaTwa2

PlasmaTwa2

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I have the power to kill this thread with a click of my mouse, but I don't have the balls to break Icecold's heart like that. So...

One thing that I hate about soccer is how it is called the beautiful game. Who came up with that? I know for a fact that figure skating is the beautiful game. This thread has proven that (most) soccer fans are stuck up. "Oh, you don't like the beautiful game? Well you're just a dumb American."
 
Nokternal

Nokternal

Andronicus Ry said:
No, really it doesn't. If I have to choose a sport to watch in person, I'll choose baseball every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Nothing (and I mean, nothing) beats at a day at the ballpark. Give me a beer, some peanuts, and tickets to The Friendly Confines, and I'm ready for a perfect day.
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That what I like to do too.. watch a bunch of steroid enhanced men in really tight pants stand around a diamond for a few hours picking their wedgies and spitting. And all the while I get to drink fizzless yellow 3.2% beer at $8.50 a plastic cup and eat five dollar peanuts while the drunks all around me fart, burp, and yell mantras at the back of my neck. And if I am lucky the other fans might sit down long enough to let me see another guy in tights scratch his sweaty, steroid shrunken scrotum before running twenty five feet. :rolleyes:
 
Straight Shooter

Straight Shooter

PlasmaTwa2 said:
I have the power to kill this thread with a click of my mouse, but I don't have the balls to break Icecold's heart like that. So...

One thing that I hate about soccer is how it is called the beautiful game. Who came up with that? I know for a fact that figure skating is the beautiful game. This thread has proven that (most) soccer fans are stuck up. "Oh, you don't like the beautiful game? Well you're just a dumb American."
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Pele made the phrase famous.

I've never heard anyone refer to ice skating as "the beautiful game", ice skating isn't even a game lol. Soccer truly is a beautiful game at least to the schooled eye. Ever see a player dribble a ball past three defenders and score a goal, if you havent get on YouTube and check it out because there is nothing more beautiful than that.
 
Da Mad Blogger

Da Mad Blogger

all that running around for 3 hours for scores that 1-0

thats too much work for so little pay off.

plus you cant use your hand

plus the players fake too many injuries to attempt draw a foul against the other team. In american sports we call that flopping and its offense worthy of severe boo-ing!

Soccer will big in America along the same time the metric system will be implemented. lets try NEVER!!!!
 
Straight Shooter

Straight Shooter

Da Mad Blogger said:
all that running around for 3 hours for scores that 1-0

thats too much work for so little pay off.

plus you cant use your hand

plus the players fake too many injuries to attempt draw a foul against the other team. In american sports we call that flopping and its offense worthy of severe boo-ing!

Soccer will big in America along the same time the metric system will be implemented. lets try NEVER!!!!
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There's flopping in every sport granted it's not as prevalent as in soccer.
 
B

Bloodshot Scott

Icecold322 said:
Pele made the phrase famous.

I've never heard anyone refer to ice skating as "the beautiful game", ice skating isn't even a game lol. Soccer truly is a beautiful game at least to the schooled eye. Ever see a player dribble a ball past three defenders and score a goal, if you havent get on YouTube and check it out because there is nothing more beautiful than that.
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lol
 
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