WHY DO THE REST OF THE WORLD, FIND IT HARD TO GET EXCITED ABOUT US SPORTS?

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choices : sports : WHY DO THE REST OF THE WORLD, FIND IT HARD TO GET EXCITED ABOUT US SPORTS?

[+] serious ballot by Steelhamster
ACTIVE Sun Jun 22, 08 - Mon Jun 22, 09
I know the US see football (or Soccer as they insist on calling it) as a minority sport, but the world disagrees.

I have really tried to get into Gridiron, Basketball, Ice Hockey and Baseball but they don't instill the same passion as I get from the beautiful game.

Gridiron has too many player, wear padding and the game seems to stop and start constantly

Baseball is like cricket, great to play, but dull to watch

Basketball is a game that just seems repetitive and most of the players are freakish, none less than six foot six

Ice Hockey looks promising, especially when there is a fight.... but I then realise I only watch it for this reason

So,I guess I have answered my own question...perhaps for the reasons I have given, the rest of the world don't get passionate about US sports

Too corporate
They don't have relegation and promotion
They have a draft system
They are idiots
They do not know much about the players.
Too commercialized, dehumanized, media circus. etc.
This isn't true about baseball.

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COMMENTS:
You know I was thinking of making a ballot about soccer as we insist to call it, :), why aren't we as passionate about it as the rest of the world?

All through school I played, I was always on a team, now I don't really have a lot of time to play any sports, but it is strange that we don't share the same love as the rest of the world.

I know that's not your question, I don't know the answer to yours or mine.

Maybe because we were kind of isolated from the world before ww2 and air travel, but Mexico and South America are big soccer fans so that blows that theory, hmmmm

by larrynelmira on Sun Jun 22, 08 1:07pm [+]

Voted : Too commercialized, dehumanized, media circus. etc.
And, too often, flat-out boring. I've loved baseball since I was a year old, and American football soon after that, but I still drift away from games in progress. Football, that is. baseball I quit watching several years ago, soon after Bud Selig crawled into the Commissioner's job and ruined the sport.

by Truthseeker013 on Sun Jun 22, 08 1:27pm [+]

Voted : This isn't true about baseball.
Sorry, Steel, but baseball is wildly popular in parts of Latin America (including, unexpectedly, Cuba & Venezuela), Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and appears to be catching on in mainland China and Thailand.

So, while I'd be hard-pressed to declare baseball as being as popular as soccer internationally, it is easily the most popular American sport internationally, and has a potential population of about 600 million following it--plus maybe another billion if China actually decides it likes it.

by Felix on Sun Jun 22, 08 5:55pm [+]

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