Why isn't Soccer popular in America?

[Straight Shooter]

I've had it up to my neck with NFL players and all their gangsta bullshit that includes all of em no matter what color. You never see that shit in the NHL.

NHL players don't get paid much compared to other sports.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

NHL players don't get paid much compared to other sports.

They make more than you think. League minimum is over $400,000 a year. I think the highest paid are in the eight figure range a year. It's all because of Bettman's dumb fuckin' ass that all the collective bargaining was so atrocious. He was on the owners side. And trust me, those owners are making a fortune with what they are doing. The Wild sell out every game and they don't have a very high payroll at all.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Yeah but compare that to what baseball players get and even some pro soccer players over in Europe get.

 

[L3ggy]

But you were talking about NFL and NHL, not Baseball or Football.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Yeah but compare that to what baseball players get and even some pro soccer players over in Europe get.

It's all relative.

Tell me these guys right here aren't getting paid more than the majority of NBA players:

http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/story/11058984

That's some hella cheese right there.

 

[D-rock]

That's why I pretty much have boycotted the NFL. The commercials are so rampant it's truly a disgusting effort to promote Bud Light products. I just can't really handle that shit. I'll tune in from time to time but it's hard at times.

It's ironic that you have that much of a problem with commercials for sports popular here, but for some reason don't have a problem with a sport where the teams are shameless enough to be practically running billboards for some business.

 

[TunnelOfLove]

It may not be that popular in the USA but they still have more registered players than any other nation in the world.

Today, however, according to FIFA the United States has more official soccer players than any other nation in the world - almost 18 million. No other sport crosses so many cultural boundaries, and it no surprise that it is the fastest growing team sport in the United States.

http://usa.usembassy.de/sports-soccer.htm

 

[D-rock]

It may not be that popular in the USA but they still have more registered players than any other nation in the world.



http://usa.usembassy.de/sports-soccer.htm

That has more to do with the fact the US has one of the biggest populations in the world to begin with. Combined that with the fact we have been economically stronger than nearly all the other places with populations exceeding or close to ours and it's not surprising. To get a better understanding you would have to combine all the people in Europe together and compare them all to us.

Soccer is also so low on the list of favored US sports it has nowhere to go but up. It couldn't possibly become more loathed than it already is.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

It's ironic that you have that much of a problem with commercials for sports popular here, but for some reason don't have a problem with a sport where the teams are shameless enough to be practically running billboards for some business.

I have a particular disdain for the MLB games for my home team as well, particularly the mamoth Budweiser sign in left field. It's wrong to promote those products to our youth. Just like Ciggy billboards are outlawed, why should it be any different for alcohol?

As far as my disdain for the NFL, it's particularly egreious how MANY commercials there are on any given game. You get that stuff with NHL, MLB and NBA, but it's particularly excessive for NFL games. At least it seems that way to me.

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

NHL players don't get paid much compared to other sports.

Sorry Iceman, I fail to see the connection between how much money you make and how much of a worthless asshole someone is.

Are you saying hockey players aren't pieces of shit because they only make 6 or 7 million a year?:dunno:

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Sorry Iceman, I fail to see the connection between how much money you make and how much of a worthless asshole someone is.

Are you saying hockey players aren't pieces of shit because they only make 6 or 7 million a year?:dunno:

They're making more than that. Didn't Gabby sign a monster contract with your Rangers?

The KHL is also signing players for massive contracts as well. Kovalchuk was reported to have been offered a 3-year $40 million dollar contract.

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

They're making more than that. Didn't Gabby sign a monster contract with your Rangers?

The KHL is also signing players for massive contracts as well. Kovalchuk was reported to have been offered a 3-year $40 million dollar contract.

Oh, definitely. I was just thinking along the lines of average to above average players.

I think Kovalchuk got offered $100,000,000 for 8 or 10 years by the Islanders. I could be wrong though. Don't quote me on that.

 

[TunnelOfLove]

To get a better understanding you would have to combine all the people in Europe together and compare them all to us.

Now you are exaggerateing.

 

[roronoa3000]

Which is another thing I hate about the NFL. You take a guy like AP and he's damn near washed up already. It's rare that an Emmitt Smith or Barry Sanders comes along.



Yeah, there's a ton of running backs like Pacman Jones. Who was the one from Miami who was supposed to be the next Emmitt Smith? He robbed his neighbors house. The showmanship from guys like TO and Chad Johnson is pretty nauseating as well.

AP washed up? lol.
Pacman was NOT a running back.
TO is a douche bag.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

AP washed up? lol.
Pacman was NOT a running back.
TO is a douche bag.

Compared to the last few years AP fell off the planet this last season. I'll make a prediction right now, with how physical he is I see a major injury either this year or next. He's a good power back but he has little finesse.

 

[roronoa3000]

Compared to the last few years AP fell off the planet this last season. I'll make a prediction right now, with how physical he is I see a major injury either this year or next. He's a good power back but he has little finesse.

Alot of that was because they had Farve. A QB that could (and did) throw the ball. They hadn't had a good passing QB for years before that.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Alot of that was because they had Farve. A QB that could (and did) throw the ball. They hadn't had a good passing QB for years before that.

Some of that was due to Favre and because we have a pretty good core of wide outs, but I've seen AP take a beating for the last few years. I'd like them to trade him for a couple other backs - a fourth down back and an every down back. It all depends what Favre does, the future of the entire infrastructure of that team, that prick. He probably just wants to skip mini-camp like he did last year.

 

[Nokternal]

Most importantly the games last only two hours so the game goes by really quick unlike my favorite sport baseball which can get dull at times.

Both baseball and Soccer games seem to go on and on and on and on when I watch them. Theses aren't really sports, they are children's games designed to teach teamwork without the risk of injury that comes along with more physical sports. Plus most of the players (most not all) could care less about the fans, it is about the check. They might say they care, but that's because they have to to get paid more by building a larger fan base.

Take me to a kiddie baseball game that my little brother is playing in, I have a ton of fun, and so do they. And the kids really want to win for their school, they aren't getting paid a dime. Pay grown men millions to play the same game...

Pay two men millions to go into a ring and beat the brain cells out of each other.. now that is sport! :2 cents:

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Both baseball and Soccer games seem to go on and on and on and on when I watch them. Theses aren't really sports, they are children's games designed to teach teamwork without the risk of injury that comes along with more physical sports. Plus most of the players (most not all) could care less about the fans, it is about the check. They might say they care, but that's because they have to to get paid more by building a larger fan base.

Take me to a kiddie baseball game that my little brother is playing in, I have a ton of fun, and so do they. And the kids really want to win for their school, they aren't getting paid a dime. Pay grown men millions to play the same game...

Pay two men millions to go into a ring and beat the brain cells out of each other.. now that is sport! :2 cents:

Wow. You're very naive. First, congratulations on your baseball comment, which has some merit. There is not a ton of athleticism, but they ARE tallented and do have skills, but to have a DH weakens the image for sure.

But second, to say soccer players are not athletic or to even imply that simply states about yourself that you have no idea about sports, competition or what it is to be athletic. You are clearly unaware of what athletics means. Soccer players are some of the most athletic people on the planet. They are also quite frankly the fittest. You would not find any of these players throwing up on the field like a 350lb linebacker in the NFL in minicamp. :wave2:

 

[Nokternal]

Where did I say soccer players were not fit? Soccer players are very fit and athletic, they run back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. You know who else is very fit, this guy; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui3lPtcsuH8&feature=related

I never implied that they were not fit, just that the game of soccer itself is weak sauce.
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