Because North Americans are so used to sports like football and hockey where there's lots of hitting and guys not faking injuries trying to get the ref's attention. People just think that soccer players aren't as tough because they're used to seeing other things.
Why do Americans hate football(soccer) so much?
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Probably because we aren't the best at it. The Sports/Love ratio gets less as Americans get worse at it. Since Americans are good at Baseball, Football, And Basketball, those are the sports we like. Since we aren't as good at soccer and hockey, those are lesser sports here.
If you think that is insulting you you need to get out more. Reread what I wrote, that isn't what I was saying at all. I said, specifically, that NBC execs (for instance) would faint. It's the TV producers that love the ads, not the viewers.A Mad Monk 2 said:
Eh?
I grew up in a Soccer town near Chicago of all bloody places.
We played Soccer even at the height of Michael Jordan's career (when basketball was the only sport that mattered for much of my state); and I do mean like every single school plus 4 independent junior teams played.
I grew up in a Soccer town near Chicago of all bloody places.
We played Soccer even at the height of Michael Jordan's career (when basketball was the only sport that mattered for much of my state); and I do mean like every single school plus 4 independent junior teams played.
The final of the Confederations Cup is definitely not shit. Neither are the 1/8 finals of the WC.Doomsday11 said:Sorry to burst you're bubble their shitJourneyThroughHell said:
Also, grammar. Please?
A couple reasons I think. It's a little too slow and the scoring stays down. I know baseball is slow but it's been around almost since the dinosaurs and going to a game is more of an event than watching a sports game. But sometimes it seems like soccer takes slowness to a new level. You see guys jogging across the field to throw the ball in trying to delay the clock out. And finally it's just not that violent, people touch graze each other and someone will fall on the ground like every bone just broke trying to get something called. I know people are gonna say that rugby is pretty violent and that they play without pads but because football has padding you're gonna see more violent hits. It's like why brain injuries have gone up in boxing since they started wearing gloves. Since they don't have to worry about breaking their hands when they hit the skull they go for that more. In rugby you won't see two guys going full speed smash into each other.
Stuff like this doesn't happen in Rugby:
Stuff like this doesn't happen in Rugby:
Because American's like to think they're the best at every sport, so if one pops up that they regularly get their asses handed to them in, then it's not a real sport now is it?
