why dont americans like sports which are liked globally

[kalster]

basketball, nfl, nhl while all great entertaining sports, why arent sports globally played/popular not mainstream in this country


edit: guess i should add baseball to above list as well, since its pretty popular here as well (personally i find it very boring though )

 

[Ryan]

Because we're the awesomist of the awesome - duh! Screw your puny soccer - it can't hold a candle to American Football. YEAHHHHHHHHH <viens pop out of neck and crushes a brick on his forehead>

 

[jai6638]

coz they like to be different ...


btw, lets not forget cricket which is played in quite a few countries around the world ..

 

[ElFenix]

tennis has a pretty damn big following here.


soccer is not particularly exciting. in addition, tv networks can't figure out how to make money on it, which basically dooms it. without a tv contract you don't gain fans, and you don't have enough money to compete with other sports for the same athletes.


edit: cricket is even worse than soccer

 

[Random Variable]

It's funny considering how many kids play soccer.

 

[Gurck]

I find pretty much all sports equally boring, I only enjoy and follow baseball.

 

[pennylane]

money

 

[kalster]

bah, cricket is fun, well atleast when india is kicking pakistan's @ss

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: kalster
bah, cricket is fun, well atleast when india is kicking pakistan's @ss

which is 99% of the time!!!

<= cricket player, 4 hours every saturday morning

 

[Rhin0]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
tennis has a pretty damn big following here.


soccer is not particularly exciting.

And you are comparing this to what? Baseball? HAHAHA

Basketball? second most boring, second only to baseball

Football? STOP go STOP go STOP GO

soccer is non-stop action

 

[amol]

we dont like soccer for a simple reason

we suck at it

 

[jai6638]

Originally posted by: Rhin0

Originally posted by: ElFenix
tennis has a pretty damn big following here.


soccer is not particularly exciting.

Football? STOP go STOP go STOP GO

LMAO!!!!

bah, cricket is fun, well atleast when india is kicking pakistan's @ss

so true... the worldcup india vs pakistan match was awesome!!!! :

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: kalster
basketball, nfl, nhl while all great entertaining sports, why arent sports globally played/popular not mainstream in this country

Hockey is pretty global.

Tennis is followed here pretty widely.

And soccer, well, it's just bloody boring. It takes a lot of skill and athleticism to play, but it's damn boring to watch. It moves slowly, and there are very few exciting moments.

ZV

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Rhin0

Originally posted by: ElFenix
tennis has a pretty damn big following here.


soccer is not particularly exciting.

And you are comparing this to what? Baseball? HAHAHA

Basketball? second most boring, second only to baseball

Football? STOP go STOP go STOP GO

soccer is non-stop action

soccer is non-stop action with no scoring at all and most of the action has no hope of resulting in a score in the next few seconds. so the action, while non-stop, is boring. football can always break a TD, and baseball can always have a homerun. oh, and because soccer has no stops it isn't suitable for pay-tv at all. (or getting a beer, or hitting the toilet, whatever)

 

[PoPPeR]

in soccers case, you have to always watch it or you may miss out on the 1 goal they score a game. In football, you can skip the 2nd and 3rd quarters and while you may lose out on some big plays, you know you'll see that same play 20x a day on sportscenter and nfl prime time for the next week.

 

[PoPPeR]

Originally posted by: Rhin0

Originally posted by: ElFenix
tennis has a pretty damn big following here.


soccer is not particularly exciting.

And you are comparing this to what? Baseball? HAHAHA

Basketball? second most boring, second only to baseball

Football? STOP go STOP go STOP GO

soccer is non-stop action

yes, non stop action, but would it kill them to score a goal every once in awhile?

 

[Rhin0]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Rhin0

Originally posted by: ElFenix
tennis has a pretty damn big following here.


soccer is not particularly exciting.

And you are comparing this to what? Baseball? HAHAHA

Basketball? second most boring, second only to baseball

Football? STOP go STOP go STOP GO

soccer is non-stop action

soccer is non-stop action with no scoring at all and most of the action has no hope of resulting in a score in the next few seconds. football can always break a TD, and baseball can always have a homerun. oh, and because soccer has no stops it isn't suitable for pay-tv at all.

Fair enough. I don't watch any sports at all but I will say out of the "normal" tv sports most people watch football is pretty close to tolerable and sometimes fun to watch.

Basketball (NBA) has to be the worth, nothing worse than a bunch of overpaid -insert sentence here that would probably get me banned-

NBA SUCKS, NCAA is only thing even close to bearable

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Rhin0

Originally posted by: ElFenix
tennis has a pretty damn big following here.


soccer is not particularly exciting.

And you are comparing this to what? Baseball? HAHAHA

Basketball? second most boring, second only to baseball

Football? STOP go STOP go STOP GO

soccer is non-stop action

What action? Clusterfvck around the ball and nothing else. There are no "miracle moments" of great plays. Might as well watch a marathon.

ZV

 

[t3hmuffinman]

Originally posted by: Rhin0
soccer is non-stop action

to those who don't like it, it is non stop inaction. i'm not one to rag on other sports (lol I do track and field... just running in circles), but i personally don't like soccer because it seems that it's just back and forth and there are so few goals that it just drags along. to each his own...

more on topic... i'm in high school and soccer is huge around here in south california. tennis is pretty big here too. the main reason that I agree with someone said before... if it's not on TV, it's not going to be popular (which is also pretty sad...)

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: Rhin0

Originally posted by: ElFenix
tennis has a pretty damn big following here.


soccer is not particularly exciting.

And you are comparing this to what? Baseball? HAHAHA

Basketball? second most boring, second only to baseball

Football? STOP go STOP go STOP GO

soccer is non-stop action

When you said basketball was the 2nd most boring, i stopped reading

 

[Chaotic42]

My reason: Soccer is really boring.

 

[ChaoZ]

I agree that baseball is most boring sport out there. I mean even golf is more entertaining, at least it has a nice green surrouding.

 

[Bv3]

Originally posted by: Amol
we dont like soccer for a simple reason

we suck at it

I think this is it. I love soccer but most people I know don't. All the good players can make more money playing in European leagues so the MLS teams are all pretty weak.

I think it is also because there are no breaks for commercials so TV stations don't want to carry it. If it's not on TV most people don't even know it's happening.

 

[PoPPeR]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
I agree that baseball is most boring sport out there. I mean even golf is more entertaining, at least it has a nice green surrouding.

yes, because as we know baseball is played on concrete

 

[poopaskoopa]

Originally posted by: Amol
we dont like soccer for a simple reason

we suck at it

Not for me. I find soccer utterly boring. It was never more apparent to me when I caught myself turning away from a NCAA women's soccer game. If I'm not going to watch a bunch of college girls run around in shorts, then the sport has no potential as a spectator sport.