The TV networks hate it. There are no breaks. We need a lot of commercials here in the land of making money. What network will show a sport with no payday? Maybe we could institute a TV timeout every 5 minutes or so?
2007-11-09 22:26:01 · 12 answers · asked by sdsrfbum69 3 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
First, all the worldclass players are not in USA, they are in far far place Europe, and in USA there are so many other super players in USA, like NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB. There are not much of population in USA who can love more than these sports.
2007-11-09 22:45:26 · answer #1 · answered by Wilson Phillips 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soccer is popular in the US - when I coached a kid's team last season, I saw that all the soccer fields in the area were full every weekend with all ages playing, It's not popular as a professional sport, sure, but as an amateur sport it's more popular than almost any other.
2007-11-10 22:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by Stephen G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, you're wrong. It will never be as popular in the US as other sports for a number of reasons, none of which has to do with TV (it gets enough TV time on networks like ESPN, ABC, etc, but its ratings are low).
1) We have more sports than most other nations, and most of our best athletes go to baseball, football, or basketball.
2) It's non-contact.
3) It's low scoring.
4) In terms of strategy, it doesn't compare with football or baseball.
2007-11-10 06:33:48 · answer #3 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
most major cities cant afford it here in chicago we got 2 baseball teams 1basketball team 1 football team 2 hockey teams and now we have chicago fire a good soccer team but this isnt a soccer city to much taxes already
2007-11-10 06:37:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
and also the thought of a match ending in a 0-0 draw is anathema to the Yanks.
I wonder how they'd get on with cricket?
2007-11-10 06:33:57 · answer #5 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's kinda the same with football in Europe... Oh well, there still are football addicts in Europe, just like me :D
GO EAGLES GO :D
2007-11-10 06:34:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably because it takes too long. and maybe because U.S already has many popular sports to begin with
2007-11-11 19:31:59 · answer #7 · answered by soccerkid 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coz theres too many sports around there, bball, baseball, football, they dont need soccer, theres another reason is that american soccer is not that good!
2007-11-10 06:36:40 · answer #8 · answered by D.Wade 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you make some sense. but that will change in 20 years the mexicans are arriving..
2007-11-10 20:14:43 · answer #9 · answered by yak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's just that it's too elegant for them. American's like brute force sports.
2007-11-10 06:30:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋