US Football [soccer] - How long until it's more popular than baseball?

[Phrancheyez]

Soccer (Everywhere elses Football) will NEVER become anywhere near as popular in the United States as it is anywhere else in the world.

Why?

Because it's boring to watch. Theres not enough action going on, not enough people coliding, NOT ENOUGH SCORING.

Before you say I'm anti-Soccer(Football), I grew up playing soccer. I played for 8 years and played on the Varsity team in school. I love playing soccer, I've never had as much fun doing anything else in my life as I did when I played it. However to watch it is boring when you're used to sports like Basketball and Football(American)...hell, even Baseball, which to quote Paul Tagliabue(sp?)(ex-Commissioner, NFL) is about as interesting as standing in the line at the supermarket, scores more points than Soccer does. Where's the suspense when at the end of the game, the score is still 0-0, 1-0, or 1-1? Suspense just because the score is close? That's true..but people got so bored of sitting there for 90 minutes of nothing happening that 0-0 suspense just doesn't do it for them.

In lieu of your argument, I do think that Soccer is more interesting to watch than Baseball. However, to me, Soccer is like golf...it's something you watch and see a guy dribbling down the field and you're like 'Oh, ok..that's cool..' but if you've actually played it, when you watch professionals do it, it's like 'Holy shit, did you just see how he split those defenders?'. Fortunately theres a lot of 'preps' in America to keep the sport populated, but not enough to make it mainstream. And it's unfortunate, because it is a great sport, but I think it's a lost cause to try and make people like something, because I honestly don't think they ever will.