drkohler said:
Kasz216 said:
drkohler said:
) and it boils down to one thing only we all agreed: Soccer was not brutal/violent enough for the average American. Football: muscle packed steroid homunculi crashing into each other = good, bloody, lotsa cash. Soccer: lean and quick people running after a ball = boring, no blood, no cash.
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That is a silly arguement
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It may have been or it may not have been at the time. It was exactly the key agument I was told then (by a group of people I'd certainly consider with a higher than average education level. This included several sports teachers, including football teachers at various levels. Also some freshly crowned soccer teacher who was looking for advice..).
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Well that's a problem because there is no such thing as a football teacher.
Like i said, there are plenty of nonviolent sports that are very popular in the US.
Most likely, the people you talked to, just don't really know the history of the sport.
It's like people who call American Football, handegg, they do so only out of ignorance of well... Football.
Football is Assosiation Football as much as Cheese is Cheddar Cheese.
Football was a loosely codified name for many many games throught the english speaking world, and basically every country tailored the game of football to their own liking based from one of the two main forms of football that originated in England. Assosiation Football (Via cambridge rules) and Rugby Football.
Soccer and Rugby were actually the terms invented by the British to keep the games apart before Soccer became so popular as to take the name Football, due partially to it being adopted as the name in foreign countries, being known soley as "Futball" and such in some places.
The REAL question isn't why does America (And other english speaking countries) not like Assosiation Football as much as everybody else... it's why does everybody else like Football so much? Isn't it weird that there is one sport that's universally the most popular in 70% + of the world. That's generally not how culture works, everyone generally has their own tastes in food, music, enteratainment etc. (Though that's changing someone due to dominant amreican culture)
and the real answer? Look who was dominant at the time Assosiation Football spread and became popular.
Just how America is rewirting a lot of countries culture and taste in cinema through hollywood, England did the same thing with sport. English sailors spread the game everywhere, mostly by Cambridge rules.
The countries where it's not popular outside of england were coincidentally the places that already knew football, and the many ways it could be played.
It was helped by it being such an economic game. We used to play Soccer all the time where i lived. Far more then baseball or Football.... why? All you need is like 2-4 people some trash cans and a ball.
The only thing we played more was basketball... and i'm 32.