Why is soccer so unpopular in the US?

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Onyxmeth said:
I believe Soccer doesn't work for most reasons brought up and one I haven't found yet. It's too large a sport to care about. The end result of Football that anyone cares about is the Super Bowl. 32 teams go for it for a few months and there you go. It's small enough to know most teams in and out. Same thing with Basketball and Baseball. Now Soccer is too worldwide. The biggest Soccer event is the World Cup, and for you to have true knowledge, you would have to pay attention to how many teams? I don't even know but something's telling me it's way over one hundred that go for a position in the World Cup.

Actually, the world cup also has 32 teams: http://www.mapsofworld.com/2006-fifa-world-cup/qualified-teams.html

The European cup, now being played has 16. And it isn't that hard to make a good team distinction and an estimated guess on who's going how far. Surprises aside, clear runners for a WC in football are, for instance, Brazilia and Argentina for SA, and in Europe Germany, England, Italy and off coure, the Netherlands :d.

Of course, nationalism also takes a huge role here.