America doesn't care about soccer, even less about it's "fans"...

That's not even in the top 95% of trolling ever.

Norv Turner: SOCCER IS INCREDIBLY BORING

Damn right, it's 'incredibly boring.'
3 hours, and nobody's scoring?
That's why that a-hole
Yells out every GOOOOOAAAAL:
He needs to drown out all the snoring.

America loves *playing* soccer. It just is not watchable in the same vein that the Big Four are.

\brother in law's family are huge soccer fans, so don't say I've never tried...

FriarReb98: America loves *playing* soccer. It just is not watchable in the same vein that the Big Four are.

\brother in law's family are huge soccer fans, so don't say I've never tried...

See I feel that baseball is more boring than soccer. At least you have 90 minutes of constant movement (minus fouls) on the soccer field.

scottydoesntknow: See I feel that baseball is more boring than soccer

Baseball has incredible depth to it. Basketball is incredibly boring, far more than soccer.

MaxxLarge: Damn right, it's 'incredibly boring.'
3 hours, and nobody's scoring?
That's why that a-hole
Yells out every GOOOOOAAAAL:
He needs to drown out all the snoring.


You have a gift, my friend. Never abuse it.

I will haiku

Soccer is a game
Played by the rest of the world
No real sports have they

Is Time not putting Messi on the cover because Americans don't follow soccer, or do Americans not follow soccer because influential media outlets like Time don't give it any coverage?

Uakronkid: Is Time not putting Messi on the cover because Americans don't follow soccer, or do Americans not follow soccer because influential media outlets like Time don't give it any coverage?

The first one. Pele could come back and play at age 71, playing for the L.A. Galaxy, leading the league in goals and assist, with night after night of ridiculous bicycle kicks and SportCenter highlights alongside Kyle Rote Jr, also returning to the game and killing it every night and soccer would still be hockey's retarded little brother in America.

And hockey is a distant fourth professional sport in America.

You may have heard of this Lionel Messi fellow

Nope.

Here's how I look at Soccer and Sports

With all the European immigrants, (heck the rest of the world at this point) i've always wondered why Soccer never caught on. The scoring can't be part of it, baseball and hockey are pretty low scoring. There is a lot of running and kicking. Perhaps the field is far too big?


1) Soccer, Baseball and golf are both great games to play. Horrible to watch on TV. Baseball is great at the Stadium or listening to on the Radio. Golf is useless in any other form than playing.

2) Hockey, College Football and College Basketball are great to watch on TV. Not too good to listen to on radio.

3) Pro-Football and Pro-Basketball are horrible to watch on TV.

King Leo? A sequel to the Lion King being released or something?

Darth_Lukecash: 3) Pro-Football and Pro-Basketball are horrible to watch on TV.

You are entitled to your opinion, but whaaaaaaaaaaaa?

PainInTheASP: King Leo? A sequel to the Lion King being released or something?

Soccer just doesn't fit into the major sports schedule. The only way for it to pick up would be for the others to give up market share, which just isn't going to happen.

Right now, Baseball has the spring/summer, slightly overlapping with the start of Football season.
Football season has the fall/winter, overlapping with Basketball/Hockey season.
Basketball/Hockey have winter/spring, taking us back to Baseball.

There's just no space for another major sport.

I'll admit to being a casual fan of american soccer, for whatever that's worth.
Basketball is boring to me, hockey is ok.

Darth_Lukecash: 3) Pro-Football and Pro-Basketball are horrible to watch on TV.

Time could learn something from you....

Well I've been around long enough to have see Pele play for the New York Cosmos. Whoever "they" are have been trying to force feed us soccer since the 1970's. It will never take as a major sport. Too boring to watch and I found it boring to play. Much preferred to play football and baseball.

I really wanted to play hockey as I love to watch it even as a kid but my parents balked at all the driving they had to do plus the cost of the equipment. (Pre precious snowflakes era).

I like watching soccer. Many Americans don't. I'm okay with that.

I'm not offended or incensed by Time's decision.

This one was a little unfortunate:



But I'd rather read about shyness than soccer.

Hey look, it's this thread again. Soccer has made incredible strides in the US, but not enough to make the cover of a major non-sports magazine. Shocking. Also, I'm guessing the US edition is different from everyone else all the time (as already demonstrated in this thread).

zzzzzz

The Bestest: I have a hard time explaining why soccer seems to have caught on more in the Pacific Northwest than other regions, though.

That's easy:

1. Your football team isn't very good
2. Your baseball team isn't very good.
3. The Sonics were moved and the situation soured too many on the NBA for them to pick up the Blazers
4. Lots of middle to upper middle class white liberals

expobill: Messi is the best athlete on the planet now, Djokovic and Contador are next!

Pure athleticism? It's Lebron or Dwight Howard.