TheRealMafoo said: 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.

That commentary is a one-of-a-kind. Like the goal.

Here you have a 4-3. Tell me how it is. This game was so exciting by the way, I was screaming like crazy in every goal for my team.

On a side note, I hate this commentator. But at least he puts some emotion

lol, it's amazin how defensive people get when people disagree with them. 

My parents are from the caribean and my father watches Soccer all day, It's quite popular in Brooklyn because almost every nation IS represented in NY. You should HAVE seen the JAMAICAN FLAGS flying around during the last world Cup. More PEOPLE watched the world cup in NY and CALIFORNIA than any otheR state too, but still the game is not popuar and probably will take forever to reaches mainstream america. But here IN nY, PEOPLE LOVE IT.

Soccer bores me. Not as much as baseball, but I much prefer hockey and football.

Better. I think the audience with all its energy adds more then the commentary. When we get 150,000 people to show up to a game, it will be more exciting over here :)

I don't think soccer will be the great sport in the US. It's just too far from it.

BTW, latin american commentators are the best. I watched soccer from all over the world.... Spanish (spain) commentators are good too. There's an english commentar that comments on some important games, which is kind of good... he does have pasion. English commentators, the vast majority, are boring.

Maybe Montreal and Ottawa will join sometime during the next 10 years.
Then there will be some seriously good derbies with Portland, Vancouver and Seattle in the west coast, and Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal in the east. 

Philadelphia's new team, DC United, New England Revolution, NY Red Bulls is not that far from eachother :/

 btw.. newly created New York FC will be joining the USL in 2010. They will be playing at Icahn Stadium.

'We're cool' psrock.

I didn't know about all the Jamaicans in Brooklyn. The more you know. :D

Soccer (Everywhere elses Football) will NEVER become anywhere near as popular in the United States as it is anywhere else in the world.

Why?

Because it's boring to watch. Theres not enough action going on, not enough people coliding, NOT ENOUGH SCORING.

Before you say I'm anti-Soccer(Football), I grew up playing soccer. I played for 8 years and played on the Varsity team in school. I love playing soccer, I've never had as much fun doing anything else in my life as I did when I played it. However to watch it is boring when you're used to sports like Basketball and Football(American)...hell, even Baseball, which to quote Paul Tagliabue(sp?)(ex-Commissioner, NFL) is about as interesting as standing in the line at the supermarket, scores more points than Soccer does. Where's the suspense when at the end of the game, the score is still 0-0, 1-0, or 1-1? Suspense just because the score is close? That's true..but people got so bored of sitting there for 90 minutes of nothing happening that 0-0 suspense just doesn't do it for them.

In lieu of your argument, I do think that Soccer is more interesting to watch than Baseball. However, to me, Soccer is like golf...it's something you watch and see a guy dribbling down the field and you're like 'Oh, ok..that's cool..' but if you've actually played it, when you watch professionals do it, it's like 'Holy shit, did you just see how he split those defenders?'. Fortunately theres a lot of 'preps' in America to keep the sport populated, but not enough to make it mainstream. And it's unfortunate, because it is a great sport, but I think it's a lost cause to try and make people like something, because I honestly don't think they ever will.

Never.  Ever.  Even if my last post is wrong and Soccer does gain some ground in North America, it will NEVER EVER EVER EVER be as big as American Football.  Ever.  Quote me on this one.  Etch it into stone for the rest of history.  It will never become more popular than American Football, and it would have to be to reclaim a 'name'.

*off-topic*

Honestly, if American Football were played more in little league/schools in other parts of the world, to where other parts of the world could produce some top talents and have their own league, American Football would possibly dethrone EverywhereElseButAmerican Football.  The problem with leagues like NFL Europa is that Europeans aren't stupid, they know they're getting a watered down sport.  They weren't getting the big name athletes.  They weren't watching top talent.  They were watching people who were there to try and get a second chance back in America in the NFL.  However, when the NFL schedules a game in Europe, the stadium is packed 100,000 people or so.  And no, I'm not saying Soccer(Football) doesn't pack as many people into the stands, I know it does.  I'm just saying that Europeans like our version of Football, they just aren't going to buy into watching second-rate players.  If we bring the talent to them, they're anxious to see it.  Unfortunately, it would take way too much to be able to have a league abroad with the type of talent we have here, so it's highly unlikely to actually become a more widely accepted and loved sport.

One could argue here that Basketball did it...and this is true, but it's a lot easier to make a basketball team.  It's a lot easier to become talented in Basketball - the rest of the world is no longer as far behind the NBA as they used to be, but you only need 10 people on your team in Basketball, and 5 starters.  In the NFL, you have 11 players on the field at a time...and they only play one side, so you've got 22 starters on a team.  Creating a team of 22 STARTERS full of talent (not saying every team has 22 talented starters, the Lions did go 0-16 last year....) would be damn near impossible with no history or any kind of pedigree to help out young players elsewhere.  Not only that, you have 22 starters and then you also have about 30 second-rate players as backups.  Why buy into something when you know everyone on your team (referring to NFL Europa) either wouldn't make the big leagues, or would only as a backup?  It's a shame.

Soccer won't catch baseball anytime soon in the States. Canada may be a different matter but there's only one baseball team there anyway and it's close enough to Detroit and New York to probably stay relevant there for awhile.

As much as soccer has "grown", it's still barely a blip compared to baseball, basketball, and football. It's not even close to hockey, really.

Baseball has also enjoyed enormous growth in the past decade, BTW (insert HGH/steroid joke here).

Soccer has always been the largest participation sport among youths in the US.

Why?  You need less crap to do it then even basketball and it's largely gender nuetral.