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Toronto FC Crowd Singing:

New York Red Bulls at Seattle Sounders FC - 3/19/09

- Seattle Sounders FC have now won their first two games in the MLS to sell out crowds at Qwest Field stadium.

- Toronto FC have core 'European style' supporters.

- Ultras seem to be 'popping up' everywhere (no casuals yet though).

- Almost every club now play at soccer specific stadiums.

- Franchises are now actually making some serious money.

- Football is now available 24hours/7 days a week on several tv channels. Fans are tuning in on Premier League, Serie A, (Italy), Bundesliga (Germany), La Liga/Primera División (Spain), Eredivisie (Honorary Division, Netherlands) etc.

- Millions of youths in America are now growing up being exposed to football (unlike their parent's generation) by either playing school teams or watching football on tv. There are now more soccer school teams than American Football schoolteams in America!

- Football is the largest 'participation sport' among youths in the US.

- Philadelphia will join the league in 2010. Portland Timbers will join in 2011. Vancouver will also join in 2011.

¹ - Not a soccer-specific stadium
² - To be replaced by a soccer-specific stadium
³ - Select games played at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
⁴ - Will be renovated to be a soccer-specific stadium

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Just wondering. :/

my bad i misread that...I doubt it ever will to be honest.

One has to wonder why it isn't right now, given that one is the best sport in the planet and the other is the dullest (in the eyes of this poster, of course )

Who knows when will they embrace it. I hope soon, I hope football becomes the reigning sport there, as should with any nation

Kinda off-topic, but, man, the second video commentator is DULL. Where's the passion? You can't say "Here goes XXX, shoots, and it's a goal! YYY are winning 1-0". Where is the GOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!! that every commentator should say? It makes matches more boring without it

zexen_lowe said: One has to wonder why it isn't right now, given that one is the best sport in the planet and the other is the dullest (in the eyes of this poster, of course ) Who knows when will they embrace it. I hope soon, I hope football becomes the reigning sport there, as should with any nation Kinda off-topic, but, man, that commentator is DULL. Where's the passion? You can't say "Here goes XXX, shoots, and it's a goal! YYY are winning 1-0". Where is the GOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!! that every commentator should say? It makes matches more boring without it

We english hate it when Latins/South Americans shout "GOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL".
In our opinion it's annoying and stupid. It's dull and it's monotonous. English and continental commentators show much more enthusiasm (less is more). I sincerely hope that no Canadian or American commentator ever adopts it.

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No offence.

How about never, as much as you find Baseball boring, we also think Soccer is boring.

Then why do attendance figures keep on rising every season?
And the tv ratings?

psrock I'm under the impression that you did not even bother reading the OP.

LOL. You don't know what's going on in your own country! The statistics speaks for themselves. Do some research.

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I read from your profile that your region is Brooklyn, NY.
Judging from your post, you don't know what's happening all over America.

Baseball is 5 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours.

Soccer is more entertaining to watch, but to me, it's just slow hockey. I would see Hockey taking off in the US before Soccer, just because it offers more action (and people in the US love action)

GamingChartzFTW said: zexen_lowe said: One has to wonder why it isn't right now, given that one is the best sport in the planet and the other is the dullest (in the eyes of this poster, of course ) Who knows when will they embrace it. I hope soon, I hope football becomes the reigning sport there, as should with any nation Kinda off-topic, but, man, that commentator is DULL. Where's the passion? You can't say "Here goes XXX, shoots, and it's a goal! YYY are winning 1-0". Where is the GOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!! that every commentator should say? It makes matches more boring without it   We english hate it when Latin/South Americans shout "GOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL". In our opinion it's annoying and fucking stupid. It's dull and it's monotonous. English and continental commentators show much more enthusiasm (less is more). I sincerely hope that no Canadian or American commentator ever adopts it.

I sincerely can't understand that at all. I mean, I can understand that if someone scores against your team you'd be pissed at someone screaming, but other than that, it's one of the things that make football great. A goal is a beautiful thing, it should be celebrated, no "oh, it's a goal". That's one of the reasons commentary in football games like PES annoy me so much

To give an example, take this goal. How do you prefer it, with this commentary (done by an uruguayan, by the way) or saying "here goes Maradona, passes Butcher, he's now against Shilton, he gets past...and...he scores! 2-0".

Baseball has slowly been dying in Canada. We now have just one Baseball team and we're about to get our second Soccer team.

The real question is once Soccer finally catches up in North America, when will it reclaim the name Football?

zexen_lowe said: GamingChartzFTW said: zexen_lowe said: One has to wonder why it isn't right now, given that one is the best sport in the planet and the other is the dullest (in the eyes of this poster, of course ) Who knows when will they embrace it. I hope soon, I hope football becomes the reigning sport there, as should with any nation Kinda off-topic, but, man, that commentator is DULL. Where's the passion? You can't say "Here goes XXX, shoots, and it's a goal! YYY are winning 1-0". Where is the GOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!! that every commentator should say? It makes matches more boring without it   We english hate it when Latin/South Americans shout "GOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL". In our opinion it's annoying and fucking stupid. It's dull and it's monotonous. English and continental commentators show much more enthusiasm (less is more). I sincerely hope that no Canadian or American commentator ever adopts it. I sincerely can't understand that at all. I mean, I can understand that if someone scores against your team you'd be pissed at someone screaming, but other than that, it's one of the things that make football great. A goal is a beautiful thing, it should be celebrated, no "oh, it's a goal". That's one of the reasons commentary in football games like PES annoy me so much To give an example, take this goal. How do you prefer it, with this commentary (done by an uruguayan, by the way) or saying "here goes Maradona, passes Butcher, he's now against Shilton, he gets past...and...he scores! 2-0".

That would get old in a game where the score is 5-3.