# Why is there no culture of football hooliganism in the US?

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**Created:** [October 3, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-culture-of-football-hooliganism-in-the-us/636567 "2012-10-03T10:29:24Z")\
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It’s actually soccer hooliganism and we don’t play soccer in this country (for Americans unfamiliar with the term soccer, it’s also known as Canadian Lawn Dancing). Here in the US we play real football, which means the players are the hooligans. Soccer hooligans are the result of a pre-teen girls game used as an actual sport for men, even if they are British. If you’ve ever seen the game of soccer you’d understand why the crowd gets violent.

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