If yes why?
If no why?
Biggest sport in the world!
If no why?
Biggest sport in the world!
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So you gonna watch the mls after the World Cup??? Hahahah fuxk no only World Cup is a big deal all over the world.Comment -
I watch MLS and have season tickets. Can't wait till your dumb ass is out of the soccer forums after the World Cup.Comment -
Tennis even more popular. Soccer will never be. Best talent in which we are used to in other sports resides in Europe. We only want the best.Comment -
Just a dumbass thread.
Obviously the answer is no.
Not hard.Comment -
MLS is 3rd most attended sport. MLS can be more popular than basketball and hockey in the next 10-15 years easily.
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No. If I have to tell you you're obviously not American.
We love action and violence which is the opposite of soccer. Only the massive Mexican population would even push us close to making it popular.
Football (nfl) mimicks an analogy of war. When Beckham came the only people that cared or knew watch Gossip shows and read people magazine who aren't even soccer fansComment -
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Yesterday was proof that soccer has become more popular in the US. Bars everywhere were packed full of people watching the US/Ghana match where I live. But, those same people wont be watching Premier league or MLS on a regular basis. When the USMNT plays, it's like the Olympics - you root for your countryComment -
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I wish you guys were at that game for the picture I posted. 26,000 people packed in for New York vs DC, the best rivalry in MLS. You couldn't help but love it. This is coming from someone who watches every sport and is a diehard hockey fan that has been to the Stanley Cup. Coming from someone who lifts weights , loves
, drinks beers, and loves manly shit. European players play like pussies, not Americans.
I love sports in general though. Every sport has something to take away from it. Except basketball. That shit sucks.Comment -
The only thing I like about soccer is that games start when they are supposed to start. Brazil/Mexico had a 3pm start time and it's 3:10 pm and they've played 10 minutes. The nfl is also sorta like this but not as exact, while baseball starts like 15-20 minutes after 7/8/10 pm.Comment -
Honest question: I don't hate baseball. However, it's not that exciting. Very slow paced. Lots of time in between pitches. Lots of balls and fouls and all that. How does it manage to be so popular?Comment -
The excitement in baseball is summed up in this situation: based loaded, bottom of the 9th inning, two outs, shitty closer on the mound and it's a one run game. These situations have aged me tremendously over the years. I think the only situation that's more intense is a no huddle offense going for the winning touchdown with like a minute and change left.Comment -
If no why? would rather watch fukkin paint dryComment -
Judging by your punctuation and grammar (or lack thereof), I doubt you make enough money to know what a country club looks like dude.Comment -
American football might have a shelf life to be honest. People are starting to figure out how dangerous the sport is long term health wise. If the NFL ever ceases to exist it's fathomable that soccer might replace it, especially with the influx of illegal immigrants to this shithole country over the last 2 decades and the rate at which they reproduce.
I don't see it ever overtaking baseball though as the most popular sport but wtf knows.Comment -
Not when our best player is make a wish cancer patient Michael BradleyComment -
The question is could it ever be #1 and the answer, at least looking forward over a reasonable amount of time (30-40 years), is NO, period. This is coming from someone who watches a fair amount of soccer (not just world cup but not MLS) and enjoys the game but it's 4th on my list of spectator sports behind Football, Hockey and baseball (World Cup is technically higher up but I'm talking soccer as a whole since that's the real question).
The real answer to this is simple, history. Why do the Canadians like Hockey-History. Why do we like the sports we do history. Same with soccer, golf, etc. in other countries. These sports have such a foot hold it would be very hard to knock them out.
Focusing on #1 is silly the real question is can Soccer become the #3 or #4 sport in this country and with the influx of foreign influence and it's popularity with the younger demographic the simple answer is YES!! Or at least it has a chance over time. To start we will need a poster boy; our Ronaldo, Messi, Pele, Maradona, etc., soccer needs that American born superstar and that person is not on this team if he's out there he's between 6-16 years old.Comment -
Yes if we get a couple teams from the states to join the English Premier League and if USA wins the World Cup and if we get to host a World Cup preferably in Nashville Tennessee.Comment -
Saloon this fukkin garbage.
We play REAL sports in the USA.
Not women's slide-tackling garbage.Comment -
It's too hard for you to comprehend...but in a nutshell it comes down to two things....dollars and a piece of the calendar that it can fit into the American Sports Year. The reason it will never be anything but a fringe sport is because it goes up against many other sports from football (including college) to basketball (including college) to baseball, to hockey, to NASCAR, etc. etc. that overlap one another and take up every inch of the calendar, and arena, and stadium, and the MLS has built the tiny little 20,000 seat stadiums that they're selling out in some rabid cities like Seattle, Portland, KC, and a few others, but other cities they can't fill but half of the stadiums. There is too many sports to go around and not enough dollars to support everything everywhere....so soccer falls probably down below hockey. Soccer does well in other parts of the world like Algeria, South Korea, Egypt, or Belgium because they don't nearly have the same sort of professional or college sports influenceComment -
No although could easily surpass baseball and hockey though
trends say yesComment -
cut the field in half and let them pelt the goalie for 90 mins with shots,
then it could become a top flight sport in USComment -
Soccer will get up there, it will take awhile though. First and foremost the US has to be more competitive internationally.Comment
