Why is america so scared to accept soccer is it because the ratings will beat Nascar,hockey,golf,?

Answer 1

Not scared, just not interested. Much like hockey, most Americans don't 'get' soccer and don't really care to either.

Answer 2

First, soccer is boring. How can it be exciting when:

1) Most of the action takes place around midfield?
2) People have a hard time getting a ball into a net that a Hummer H2 can drive through?
3) The players don't seem to put much effort into the game unless the ball is in their area?
4) Players are capable of getting their rest on the field?
5) The pace of the game is molasses?

Next, I would like to address those ignorant to NASCAR, and how they think it is as simple as "turn left". If I asked any of you why they would make an adjustment in the pit, such as lowering the track bar, you'd think I lost my mind. If I asked you what the purpose of changing only right side tires was, you'd have no answer. You'd probably have no clue why they are drafting at certain tracks. And you probably could not correctly answer the number of road course races they have in a season.

As for if people are afraid to accept soccer, the answer is no. Beckham can't save it here. No one can. When people grow up, they realize soccer rewards mediocrity on the field. As a team, the avaerage goals scored per game over the course of a season is less than 1. Goals Against Averages are low, but the quality shots do not come often. The game often gets plugged at midfield. The offsides rule is complicated. Cards are hard to understand because they don't have to have much that connects a penalty to the cards. Injury time makes it difficult to follow how much time is really left. Penalties do not really do anything to penalize a team, seeing as the team with the ball usually has a penalty committed against them, so they keep the ball anyways.

Americans like fast, physical, understandable, or any combination of the three. Soccer is not any of the three, which is why it fails in America, and Baseball, Football, NASCAR, Basketball, Hockey, and Golf are all higher rated.

Answer 3

Your question makes very little sense.

So your saying that if America (note the capital A) accepts soccer, that it will have higher ratings than the sports you have mentioned?

If we liked and watched soccer here more than NASCAR, Hockey, and Golf, than obviously it would get higher ratings.

The peolpe (fans) control what the ratings will be, its not like there is a rating gnome that decides what the ratings of certain sports will be.

Answer 4

Poker on ESPN beats soccer, hockey, Nascar, and golf. Except for hockey, all the others are just BORING to watch!

Soccer as an activity is and will be popular. For many children, it's the first team sport they participate in. But to TV viewers, a 0-0 tie isn't exciting.

Answer 5

Hockey is the best sport, but I don't have anything against soccer. I like it, but it just has not taken off here in America. Though I can say one thing, they have to stop faking injuries/making the injury look worse then it is! Otherwise I like the sport, and I would love to see its ratings past Nascar, golf, etc. I just hope hockey grows with it.

Answer 6

Scared? I don't think scared is the right description...

Uninterested, uneducated, or too "just don't give a ****" would be more likely. I think with Beckham and more marketing Soccer could reach the level of say, Nascar or the NHL, decent but never spectacular ratings and a specialized group of fans who love their sport at the expense of more interesting sports like football. (kind of like the idiot NHL fan a few posts above who said screw anything but Hockey).
Soccer will never outdo the NFL, NBA, or even MLB because it isn't ingrained into the social fabric of the populace, many don't understand it, it's stars (at least those in America besides for Beckham) lack personality and a mug shot/scandal, and, well, soccer is just boring.

If you want more people to be a fan of your sport attempting to insult them isn't going to do it, you would have been better off trying something else or leaving everyone alone.

Answer 7

All those things depends on how it's marketed. With golf, you got Tiger Woods, who is the Gretzky/Ruth/Jordan of golf, rejuvenated the game. NASCAR and the NFL's Super Bowl, you have all these sponsors throwing those sports in your face to the point where you (not you, I'm using that word in a plural form) begin to wonder what the big fuss is about and check it out. And because everybody else is doing it, you feel the social pressure to like it, too.

If soccer does the same thing, and it certainly looks like it with Beckham and Victoria's media appearances on tv, soccer definitely has the potential to be up there with NASCAR, golf, and football.

Answer 8

Soccer is unpopular in N. America because so many other sports developed here ahead of it. Most North American sports are based on attack... soccer is set up as a sport where defence defence defence comes first. In Europe fans cheer when a player kicks the ball back to his own netminder. In North America we groan and roll our eyes. We cringe with embarrassment when a drama queen soccer player falls down on the pitch as though shot by an invisible sniper after a harmless bump. We start to laugh as he rolls around on the grass, and a trainer comes out with a magic towel that miraculously cures him. Compare these antics to the grit displayed by hockey and football players and it is even more embarrassing.
And weeks can go by before you see a goal.

And the drunken hoards of rioting fans around the world do nothing to sell the sport.

TV isn't in the business of "accepting" soccer. It's a question of demand. There isn't much. Soccer ratings in North America have always been terrible. In Toronto, an average Leafs hockey game draws between 1-mil and 2-mil viewers. Football, baseball and basketball are all around 200,000 to 300,000. The last televised game for Toronto's professional soccer team drew 85,000 viewers.
Soccer has been tried here many many times and hasn't cut it. Pele played for New York Cosmos, and while the stands were full, no one watched it on TV.

Soccer is the game mums want their kids to play so they don't get hurt. It's a recreational sport for most kids like swimming or jogging.

Answer 9

Well we do have soccer in the US. The rating are horrible. The crowds are horrible. Its an incredible slow paced sport with no American stars. Its slightly popular up to a high school level then it just dies.

It may beat out hockey because watching poker on ESPN beats that. Golf too maybe. No way it beats the major sports like NASCAR, NFL, NBA or MLB.

Answer 10

Hey i love soccer and i would like nothing more than to see it beat out Nascar and golf my two least favorite "sports" BUT STAY AWAY FROM MY HOCKEY!!!! that's the one thing soccer can't top.

Answer 11

its the nature of most americans, i think. they like sports like football where there's a play and about 30 seconds in between to rest. and during those 30 seconds, there's a guy who tells them, step by step, exactly what happened just in case they missed ANYTHING at all. same w/ baseball. there's a pitch...2 minute break...another pitch...etc. nascar is also really easy to follow cuz they just go around in circles and the guy in front is winning...not too much to explain. basketball also fits in there somewhere. basically i think it's because there is so much scoring that they can remain intersted. and also because it's really easy to get a good pickup game going in basketball so it's easier for ppl to get into the game

then theres the (in my opinion) better sports like hockey and soccer. possesion is constantly being switched w/o much scoring. also, there are much fewer breaks in those sports than the others (except maybe nascar). i'll admit, soccer can get boring at times, but it's a really good sport that requires unbelievable skill. hockey i find less boring, but also requires a lot of skill (not that the others don't...just the skill involved w/ these two sports is underappreciated)