Why is soccer so unpopular in the US?

[fagarcia75]

Dianko said:

fagarcia75 said:
Soccer was not in any of the public schools as a competivie sport that I attended as a youth (Houston, Texas).

There is a sports radio guy here in the Northwest, and he is hilarious to listen to when he starts his rants on soccer. His premise always seems to center around the idea of "soccer is for the 5' 6" guys who weren't big and strong enough to play football, basket ball, or baseball.

He is especially funny when people call in about the U.S. soccer world cup teams. Callers try and defend our little 5' 6" forwards with the argument that they are talented. The radio hosts chimes in with so are the European players, but they are also 6' 6" and so on.

His basic argument is right as far as I'm concened. In the U.S. the biggest strongest guys go the the NFL, NBA and MLB; soccer picks up the leftovers.

 You seriously never played soccer in school? I played it in middle school and high school, and alot of indoor play at my university. Almost everyone I know has played some soccer, especially at middle school or in leagues when they were kids (regardless of gender).

We played kickball.  In freshman (high school) gym class we played soccer for maybe a week at the most.  Noone knew what they were doing (except for one asian kid who could fly all over the place with that ball). 

In my neighborhood that I grew up in I can think of only two guys who liked soccer: Matt (white) and Alex (Mexican)

At the church that I grew up in only one person I knew off liked soccer; he was from Checkloslavakia.

Soccer was just not present in our school systems while I was growing up (I am 32).  I did begin to become more present once I finished high school though.  And I think that that school district has soccer games now.

*On a side note:  Out of the four sports (basketball, baseball, football, and soccer)  Soccer seems to be the only sport were parents at kids leagues don't behave like spoiled, immature, big-mouthed, brats.