America has 4 major sports: NFL, NHL, NBA and the MLB

But with their growing success in football (soccer), having topped their group that contained a usually dominant English side, will football (soccer) get a foothold in American culture and become one of the major sports?

Post you opinions, what you think will influence it's acceptance or rejection etc.


I personally think it will, especially now that USA are doing so well in the World Cup at the moment. I feel they are playing like a top side and not like a side that has Football as around the 5th highest played sport in the US. The USA has great potential to be a devastating football nation if it is fully embraced and accepted as a world game. The USA needs to stop kidding themselves and start playing real world class sports. The World Series has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, doesn't it strike you a little silly to name your top level sporting event "World" when it only contains 2 countries? The majority of the world don't even play baseball and those that do rarely have it as a major sport. The same goes for NHL, although it is played more widely around the world, it is still a minor sport in comparison to Football. NFL is, once again, played only in America and Canada. NBA, another sport that is played in some countries around the world but is really only embraced in America.

The USA is dominated by sports that only they play and thus they can say that they are the best at these sports because NOBODY ELSE THINKS THEY ARE GOOD GAMES. Thus, being good at Football will act as a viable ego boost and is really the best way for the US to go in terms of sport.

Eh, in a match against a good team or when England are on good form will wipe the floor with USA and they'll all hate it again...


That's what I think, but I don't know anything about how you guys think across the pond :>

You say this assuming they will come out of it badly.

Well I think that there are alot of teams who could easily beat USA, and losing will probably make some people fro the us lose alot of interest... although I have no factual evidence to base that on....

its just my opinion that USA wont win and alot of people from the usa will lose interest...

I don't think so. The league in the US is made of whack. Their attitude towards acquiring players is despicable, and the money spent in football is not in great quantity.

Besides, most of their promising players (more recently Freddy Adu) have gone to shit when playing in Europe. He was bought by Benfica (an actually stable side, European competitions-wise), had a bad first season, and has been on loan at several crap clubs recently. The only good players are the ones playing in England and Germany (plus Landon Donovan, who is a great player), and it's because they've been there for a while. Landon Donovan is a special case, basically because he must've worked REALLY hard to be as good as he is right now. No other player in the States even gets close to him.

As I said, the league is bullshit, the teams are unwilling to spend money, and no one in the US cares about football.

Nobody in the USA cares about the outcome of the World Cup.

Nobody will care about the next one if the USA wins either.

Soccer is the most boring sport ever, Americans like something more complicated than jogging.

You should know how to play or have actually played football before to know if it's boring or not. And you probably haven't seen a game.

Or you're trying to troll. Which is not fine. Don't try that, Mod.

Boring to me is nothing happening.

I know it takes a lot of energy and skill. I really don't want to watch people run 7 miles and score once or maybe twice in the entirety of a game.

I'm not trolling, I'm sure many others feel the same way I do.

Oh, if you put it that way... yes, it's boring to watch for those who aren't very dedicated to it or not affiliated to a club or nation team at all. I understand if you put it that way. ;)

I have to kind of agree with him. Americans tend to get excited about an event like this well, because we're on the center stage. Not a lot of people are going to go "WOW! What an amazing opportunity for America in the world cup! Since that was so exciting, I think I'll go to the next MLS game in the area. By the way, all my experiences with American football teams has been incredibly boring. Nothing at all like what I've seen in the famed British premiere league (at least in the montages and highlights). You're going to have to wait a little bit to see that in my opinion. Here's the reason... I played it basically for as long as I can remember. A lot of my friends have played it for as long as I remember. I've seen it get gradually more and more competitive as the years go on. But my generation is not old enough to be on the national team! It's BIG. You just can't see the ramifications of its... bigness. Not Yet at least.

tl; dr: Football has become pretty big for girls. Girls are supposedly #1 in the world. I believe it is the third most popular sport, under American Football and Basketball. But I think it's only become that popular with my generation, which is about 15-23 years old at the moment. Here's an example: When the US scored today, my entire class erupted in excitement. I think the USA will be a more substantial football powerhouse in no time at all.

(P.S.: I find the simplicity of soccer to be much more fun than American Football.)