I hope you don't watch basketball.

It's interesting to see how a simple question like this ends up in a big thread. Thought you guys didn't discuss soccer at all. But you should play it more, I mean, you have the best female team on the world (gives me jealousy it's not Brazil!) and a male team which was vide-champion of the Conferederations Cup, beating Spain and drawing with England today (what a blunder... Jabulani sucks)! It's not a kids' game at all (wish you could see how violent Argentina's soccer could turn into), it's just that you don't think it's mature enough for you.

You know... This makes me wonder: soccer is to football as casual games is to hardcore games discussion. Many people claim games like SMG and Pokémon aren't hardcore because aren't as violent as GoW, Halo, CoD etc. Quite interesting, because football is, in my opinion, a great session of violence (unlike Rugby). Have you ever stopped to think that this casual VS hardcore silly discussion could come from your opinions and preferences of football over soccer? That would be really interesting to me if it turned out to be at least a bit true.

Why?  American Football was a game that evolved from english football in the early 1800s.  We kept the name Football. Were sorry, but were not about to change it to make the rest of the world feel better.   I dont know anyone over here that is lobbying you to change what you call Football (and I dont mean that in a negative way) Soccer.  We already had an established game called Football when what you call Football started being played here so we adopted the British slang term for Football and the game is called Soccer here.  So what if the ball isnt touched by the foot much in American Football.  Baseball doesnt have the ball touch the base much either.  Maybe we should rename Baseball "Throw, Catch and Hit Ball".

most american's compare watching soccer to watching paint dry... just saying...

I enjoy playing soccer, but it really a bore to watch.

I watch Hockey my friend. basiketballs are for freeks of nature

because soccer is boring plus america sucks at soccer and who wants to watch something there country sucks at unlike basketball where america usually dominates and football is popular because i mean come on its football most people are brought up watch in football in the fall in winter every saturday and sunday and monday

It's only boring to watch when you have bad teams playing. For instance, most of who are not acquainted to football find it a crap when watching for the first time: the match isn't continuous; every time, they must stop and repositionate the teams (that's a real pain in the ass).

However, when you have quality teams such as Corithians (Ronaldo!), soccer is the best thing in the world. Interestingly, my opnion is exactly the opposite of yours: I love watching soccer (specially Corinthians' matches), but I hate playing it.

i don't really understand why it can't gain interest now.  I don't know the stories of every country but i can tell you that 20 years ago soccer wasn't popular in Japan, Korea, and Finland and now it has become one of the most popular sports in those countries.  I'm sure many other countries are the same, those are just the ones i have experience with.  I was in Japan during the 2006 world cup and the whole country stopped when the game was on, the streets were all empty.

Cause ripping your own teeth out of your head is totally for normal people.  :)

yea hockey is a tough sport but basketball almost requires being a genetic freak.  Only the few extremely talented undersized players can compete in the NBA, otherwise you have to be in the less than 1% of the population freakishly tall crowd.