Why are Americans so apathetic towards Association Football (soccer)?

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Soccer is a fine sport and the reason that most Americans don’t like it is the same reason that most Europeans don’t like baseball and most Africans don’t like Alpine Skiing. There is little or no history. Baseball is just as boring and just as exciting as soccer. It depends on the person’s knowledge and prejudice.

One thing that has been getting my goat lately though about soccer is the insistence that they use that silly upward moving clock. I’m not bashing the sport. I’m talking as a fan, perhaps as an American sports fan. I’m saying this as a fan who’d like to see the darn thing move backward and stop, for crying out loud. We’re in the 21st century after all, aren’t we?

And ties (or draws). These aren’t so bad really, but they don’t have to happen so often, do they?

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Futbol:

  1. Trip the guy who has the ball.
  2. Kick the ball out of bounds.
  3. Repeat ad nauseum.

This discussion crops up about every three months, and it's never resolved. The reasons the American public do not go for "soccer" in a big way are many and varied and valid.
However, they are never enough for those who refuse to understand our disdain for a game the rest of the world holds in the highest regard.

Preference for one game over another is a matter of personal opinion, hence this thread more properly belongs in Great Deabtes. I'm moving it there.
Please, continue.

Nickrz
GQ Mod