re: Amazingly, American Football is not in Europe... why?

Don’t forget that it takes a lot of expensive equipment to play.

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England is the one exception to this (as they are boorish idiots as well), and not surprisingly American Football is most popular there of all places outside of North America

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According to the internet, it's more popular in Germany as far as Europe goes. The Independent ABC News

Plus the attendance for the German NFL Europa teams was always the best but I cant find a link.

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#3 It's American. We have a reputation around the world as being boorish idiots, this doesn't make people want to go out of their way to learn our culture. England is the one exception to this (as they are boorish idiots as well), and not surprisingly American Football is most popular there of all places outside of North America. Even there a lot of people complain that it's too complicated, too much stop start, and don't see why the players need "all that armor"

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I don't think this is a reason, honestly. Firstly, soccer spread through interaction with sailors, expats, and students. Countries where the British had a settler presence generally play cricket or rugby preferentially, as those were regarded as upper-class sports while soccer was working-class. The clubs that were established in each country were mostly specific to neighborhoods, and thus neighborhood identity became closely linked to club identity. The growth of the sport was organic.

American culture has spread in an entirely different way, not through direct imperialism or trade interaction, but through mass media. The dominant artistic forms currently are American, and have been American for a long time. Jazz is probably the earliest example, but 12-bar blues was extremely influential in rock'n'roll, and serves as a good example of an American cultural export. Fashion too, as the blue jean is nearly ubiquitous. The major cultural export of the US now is Hip-Hop, which has found its way into pretty much every country in the world. If boorishness was a good enough reason for people to not interact with American football, why wasn't it a good enough reason for them to take other cultural elements, from architecture to the plastic arts to music to fashion to literature to film (which again has been influenced by Americans far more than any other group)?

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3 It's American. We have a reputation around the world as being boorish idiots, this doesn't make people want to go out of their way to learn our culture. England is the one exception to this (as they are boorish idiots as well), and not surprisingly American Football is most popular there of all places outside of North America. Even there a lot of people complain that it's too complicated, too much stop start, and don't see why the players need "all that armor"

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Yep our entire country is built on a principle of violence.