please go watch a game of rugby before you compare NFL to gladiatorial combat.  Aemricans are to impatient to watch a flowing 90mins of sport but will sit there for 3-4hours watching stopages every play lol?

The problem with premier league is that they allow to many foreigners to play in it to get the big names in sport to sell merchandise and to get bums on seats in stadiums. The english players do not develop at teh highest level and their country team suffers when the top 5-7 players are injured or out of form. They have no reserve depth. 

The whole league should actually fund 3-4 of the smaller clubs strugglign to stay their financially and set the rule that 8 of the 11 men on the pitch are to be english players. then these players will get to play agianst the superstars of the world and grow their skill set.

People also have to understand that stars like Magic Johnson, Babe Ruth,Michael Jordan,Jim Brown,Joe Montana and Jerry Rice are people that US citizens can relate to and want to be like.Soccer has no stars like that on the US that I know of and even Hockey had Wayne Gretzky.It was the same for WWF growing up and kids used to fantasize about being fake wrestlers.There is a reason why there is a saying called "everyone want to be like Mike".

pretty dumb statement to make. Over 3 billion people disagree with you, obviously they are all wrong and you are right, personally I don't watch soccer either but I am not dumb enough to call it boring simply because I don't like it. Not sure how you can find it boring compared to American Football or baseball though, in comparison soccer is action packed.

ok i will add something that kind of reminds me when I was in America.

The sport their is very regional focus, compared to Australia.

NFL for example is so entrenched in the towns culture that everyone puts pressure on their kids to become the town heroes, because they were one their father was one and their father's father was one lol.

Soccer is an outsider sport. when you got pressure from family to play football to carry on the family legacy it is a hard spot to be in.

In contrast in Australia, AFL and cricket was huge, every kid played it. Now after a few decent world cup performances and restructure to the ALeague, there are more kids in primary school playing soccer now than any other sport.

15 years form now who knows were this will end up?

This was my point about college football and basket ball.Parents want their kids to go to their preferred school and play those sports.College football is huge and their are several state rivalries.

Because I am not the only one who feels this way therefore it can be a contributing factor to the question that was asked.  It is called a cultural difference.  Not saying all of the US feels this way , but many obviously do.  Not sure how that isn't relevant to the question at hand.

When I said slow, I meant scoring. Have a look at today's MLB scores. Very rarely do you see a 1-2 score. In soccer, if you don't know the sport, all you see 90% of the time is guys running around a huge grass field, passing the ball back and forth. In that regard, it's similar to Hockey which also deeply lags behind other sports in the US. 

I think if people want the sport to take hold, they're going to have to educate people first. The reason baseball is the number two sport in the US is because we UNDERSTAND it. We don't understand soccer, and that's hurting it's chances.

Honestly I'm from the US and it's one of my favorite sports. Not saying much tho, I hate all of them lol.

Lol. If you actually think the U.S. is switching to metric any time soon, you've got another thing coming. That's the nicest way I can put it without being banned.