| Cream147 said: Football (i.e. soccer) becoming big in America will happen, in time. America has a very unique sports culture, and the difficulty with football is that it doesn't jig with it. It is low scoring. It is perhaps not as alpha as a sport like gridiron. It isn't an American creation. Most importantly of course, it doesn't lend itself well to TV adverts every 20 seconds like gridiron and baseball. The keys to football taking off in the USA then, would be sustained success for the national team, and the MLS finding a way to adapt football (or at least the image of football) to American tastes. It could be a very slow process, but it will happen. Football is taking over everywhere, and to think that your particular country, whether it's the USA or somewhere else will be the one that resists the trend is naïve. Oh, and as an unrelated addition, being low scoring doesn't make football boring. On the contrary, it just makes goals a lot more special when they do happen. |
No one is being naive.Soccer will never dominate the USA like the other sports.All 3 sports are billion dollar leagues with just the US mainly supporting them.No Soccer player will ever be a Michael Jordan type star.David B was only known from that bend it like Becham thing and not for the sport he played in over here.That is the only Soccer player that I can name.
That is not a good sign whenpeople know tons of nascar drivers,tennis players,golf players and baseball players without even following the sport.ESPN is the leading sports network in the US and they barely cover Soccer like the other sports,which gives exposure to the casual sports crowd.Success has nothing to do with it as US sports fans support their favoite team even though they are trash,Just ask the Browns or Lions fans.
As I said,college basket ball and football are also billion dollar leagues and many fans recognize the players from their area/schools once they go pro.LeBron James and Kobe Bryant were both stars already before they left high school and Jordan was famous from his college years.So they already had a following in which the media and fans watched them enter the league.Tim Tebow and Andrew Luck had huge following in college as well and that attention carried over into the NFL.Socer does not have and never will have that type of star power here.
