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lack of cheerleaders

lack of big muscular guys ( most football players weight less then 160)

you actually need to be in shape to play it ( I am looking at you baseball)

American and Canadian teams suck big time compare to third world countries teams



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@Mrstickball you could try a 265 pound polynesian man running right over you, without body armour? Remember momentum factors in both speed and mass.

Edit: How does one embed in 3.0? It used to be you copied and pasted then edited the post and it worked,...



Tease.

rugby league is the worlds best kept secret

this was in response to Squilliums comment before he had to edit it.



twesterm said:

Because soccer is stupid.


I remember watching that!  Awesome vid



cause they aren't good at it

 

plus in US people run behind the 'COOL' thing and which makes money and which makes you POPULAR.

 

the man of the moment is the thing there,like am am the hottest guy around now and i get all the girls

 

and cause everybody else watches so the newer young people also follow cause the want to be part of the conversation

 

stupid girls jjust go behind the muscled guys in their young days

 

also football is played with skills and rules and not WRESTLING like AMERICAN FOOTBALL

 

the LOYALS and HARDCORE followers are very less in US



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Still I would take Baseball, NFL, Ice Hockey, and basketball over Soccer any day of the week in spite of the fact that we don't have more than marginal national interest in any of those sports and Soccer dwarfs all of them in my country by a margin of 10:1 combined. Its all about what you like to watch and you wouldn't catch me watching a soccer game even if it was the world cup final.



Tease.

Soccer's pretty dumb. That's why. Noone plays it here in Canada either.




8th gen predictions. (made early 2014)
PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
3DS: 80-85m
PSV: 15-20m

Ah the old "I don't like it so it must be dumb" line.



Why isnt baseball more popular in Europe?



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novasonic said:

Soccer's pretty dumb. That's why. Noone plays it here in Canada either.


err... you could say that about pretty much all sports.