rondembo

The more foreigners there are in a sport, the less popular that sport is.

Not too long ago, baseball was the undesputed #1 sport. Then foreigners from japan and the carribean started entering the MLB. Basketball started importing foreigners from europe and asia and quickly saw a massive drop in its ratings to the point that the NBA is now struggling to maintain interest of the public and will never have the excitement of back when Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Jordan played. NHL became big when America won the Miracle on Ice, but since they Europeans and Canadians have been steadily taking over the league and now the NHL gets lower ratings than even the most foreign of sports, soccer.

Yet at the same time the NFL has maintained a almost unbroken all-American ideal, with foreigners mostly being kickers and other uncool position players, while the most cool and important and winner positions like the quarterback are exclusively reserved for Americans. Almost instantanously, the NFL has surpassed the increasingly foreign baseball and become the #1 sport. Other than a few kickers, no foreign players have ever had any influence of football. It is almost exclusively a non-foreign, non-wierd-names sport. It is the most masculine and all-American cool sports because of the cool all-American players.

The fact is that the more foreigners are in a sport, the more uncool and unpopular that sport will be.

yeah they would. soccer is only "the most popular sport in the world" because nobody outside the states can afford the incredible cost of plastic helmets and pads. I bet that rice is the most popular food in the world, but not because its good but because its cheap and foreigners have no other choice. Give any foreigner the choice between soccer and a NFL game and they'll take the NFL game.

soccer sucks period. other countries can't afford any other sport except soccer, if they could afford to watch the NFL they'd quickly abandon soccer and watch exciting sports.

yeah I know soccer sucks, so why do those foreigners pretend it doesn't and actually pretend to be excited by something so boring? And why are they pretending that football isn't exciting?

Well its good to see that all straight men hate soccer at least.

no one is giving any reasons why not. I say it will because it is inherently entertaining and appealing.

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Soccer has to be the most unwatchable sport in the world...why don't they change the rules to make the sport exciting and not so unamerican?

that football is boring and soccer is exciting? What accounts for this insane belief when obviously football is the most exciting sport ever while soccer is just endless effort with no result?

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