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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
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.
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.
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