Originally posted by Foxxern:
Have you ever been to an American football game--in America? Do you have any idea how loud it gets or how much the crowd is into it? Just about the same amount as in Europe. The difference is that we don't have regular fatal riots. I think we can live with that. We don't have to have big numbers, but we like to have a game with a winner. The idea of a draw never appealed to us--again, so what?
I like soccer and I like football. I really don't see the point in deriding a sport because you don't understand/like it. I still watch all the US national team soccer games, and I cheer just as loudly as any European cheers for their team. If we have other sports here as well, that just means that we have different sporting niches to fill for various people. We're a very diverse nation, and nowhere is that more seen than in our sporting preferences. Take your pick from football, baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, stock car racing, indy car racing, and so on.
Soccer is much bigger here than a lot of people give it credit for, and if you think US soccer is weak, you haven't been watching our team at full strength. We have something to prove, and we're the underdogs.