I think when I watch football I like not only to watch the goals, I think everytime a player steps in front of another one its like a duel, and its interesting to watch what some players will do to get rid of a defender, stop an attacker, etc... Also, I think the fact that there arent as many goals makes that each one of them is shouted with greater emotion than in any other sport.

I think many fail to see what really is going on on the field and thats why they consider it boring.

The arguement that is sometimes brought up 'it is too slow' is a ridiculous one because NFL is one of the slowest moving sports there is. In play it isn't, onbviously, but the amount of stopages is ridiculous.

The question would be better answered 'why wasn't it popular 100 years ago?' because as far as it goes now, it is incredibly hard to change the top sports of any country - it isn't more popular because it wasnt 100 years ago.

My hypothesis is the soccer is generally played by poorer people. Baseball and American Football are expensive to play since you need a lot of equipment. Soccer is cheap. Just have a ball, and you can play. There is poverty in the United States, but no where near other countries, and the sport played by those in poverty in the US is basketball, not since poorer people generally are in more densely populated areas so basketball courts can be made in cities for cheaper prices than soccer. Now soccer has been around longer than basketball and has been played by generally older countries. Basketball was invented in the US so it was more likely to play basketball over soccer/football. That's just my hypothesis.

Wow, you really dont know shit about football.

I watched NFL game once on youtube and there was basiclly 30 gorilas bending over for like 5 mins, then the action kicked off for about 5-10 seconds and then they started bending over and for 5 mins AGAIN, and then the action started off for 5 secs AGAIN, and than they started to bend over again and after 5 mins, the 3 sec long action kicked in... Yes, rugby and baseball are the most boring sports i've ever seen where the action is not longer than 30 seconds. At lest in footbal, there is action for 90 minutes.

See what i did there^^? See how i judged the enitre sport based on one game.

FIrst of all, football was never about scores only. If you watch football for tons of scores like in basketball or rugby, your doing it wrong.Football is also about strong competition, nice actions, dangerous free kicks, awesome goalkeeper saves, nice passes, amazing tricks... you'll probably never see this kind of beuty on NFL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxOm2xLEQOw

Second, its typicall for the first few WC matches to have few goals and draw results. (Altough the first WC game in germany 4 years ago had 6 goals in it)

Hornblowing is retarded, but its not like ever football game has it. Its only on this WC

Yanks is a blanket term for Americans. Yankee is I'm guessing Yanks from the south but are not what we mean when we say Yanks it's probably where we got the word Yanks from.

We could use septic tank instead if you prefer?

I'm not gonna lower myself to your level and the other people this thread that can't give an honest answer to the question asked and have to resort petty insults. There have been a few people that gave a real answer to the question but they get ignored for people that prefer name calling to actual discussion. So how about both sides continue insult each other and essentially prove what the other side is saying. 

It's the fact that Yanks go round trying to convince the world that Football is called soccer and we aren't allowed to use a name and word we invented for a sport we invented that is played by most of the world.

It's that American arrogance or superiority that must make you do that. Why do you call it soccer when in a world cup thread? In England or any other country in the world? Cant you get over yourselves to use the real name when you are in a Football area? It's rude, arrogant, and disrespectful and exactly what the world has come to expect of Yanks.

It would go a long way in improving your reputation if you could call it Football when outside of America. Is that too hard to do? To understand when you aren't somewhere that is americanised you try to fit in instead of trying to force others to change their ways to make you feel better.