# Women's soccer league folds. Do I care? No!

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**Created:** [September 18, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-soccer-league-folds-do-i-care-no/202334 "2003-09-18T07:58:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-soccer-league-folds-do-i-care-no/202334/41 "2003-09-19T15:34:49Z")

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Sorry…

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**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-soccer-league-folds-do-i-care-no/202334/42 "2003-09-19T18:01:00Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Coldfire \*  
> They started up a European NFL competition a couple of years ago. Yup, American Football, played in Europe. It’s not my kind of thing, but it doesn’t make me all defensive, either. I just don’t pay that much attention to it. But anyone who does, be they European, American, or otherwise: more power to them, and I hope they enjoy the games.

For “a couple of years ago” read [1991](http://www.nfleurope.com/news/historyindex.html). There’s even a team in Amsterdam, so that shows how much impact it’s had on you (and it’s the same story over here of course).

There have been several attempts at popularising American Football in Europe. Channel 4 in the UK televised NFL games for a few years in the '80s, NFL teams have played exhibition games at our biggest stadiums and the organisers have ploughed a lot of money into subsidising teams with zero local support. I won’t be celebrating when it folds though and I can’t understand why this thread was launched.

btw, Shankly died a Blue y’know.

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