why dont americans like football?

[what]

soccer is for girls or guys with small penis

[mike6991]

football(soccer) is mainly popular with high school students nowadays, adults are more into "patriotic stports" like baseball and football (not soccer, the other football) so i dont htink they could afford plane tickets.

[JohnJ]

boring

[raymanrevo]

We don't like it because we aren't all that good at it and there isn't a lot of scoring during a game. We're not big hockey fans either.

Also, when we see other countries trampling fans, literally killing each other over a "soccer" game, it kind of puts a damper on the excitement.

[golfer9619]

because it started out of country then came to the u.s, so they dont like it because its not native to the u.s.( personally i do like it!!!!!!!)

[e-dizzle]

Well we call it soccor and some of us like it, especially mexicans, i guess its just not that embedded in our culture like baseball.

[DF]

Don't make a blanket statement like that. As an American, I do enjoy watching soccer and playing as well. Both my daughters play and are competitive doing it. The thing here in the states is that we have so many choices and the sports most of us grew up on were Baseball, Basketball, and Football. All marketing/advertising is geared toward those sports.

So, I would politely disagree that Americans don't like soccer. We just view it in a different perspective when it comes to the other sports we do follow.

As for the blowhards saying "soccer sucks", grow up!

[K5412]

Soccer is great, but only at AAA or rep levels where it is really physical and crazy. I think alot of Americans like football (soccer) but not as much as football, or baseball. Those sports dominate and kids were raised in the US to like those sports because their fathers or mothers did.

Its bigger with teens now tho. Public school to highschool.

[Nicky7966]

just different country sports my friend, i mean wales is a rugby country and so on.

i think you are slightly misguided too buddy, there is a lot of violence and gangs in football

[hoppybunn]

We have American football which everyone goes crazy over (I don't understand why all they do is stand around half the time), but I think soccer/football is the most popular sport that kids here get involved with. Ever hear the term "soccer mom?" It's a kind of culture here where the mom takes the kids to soccer practice, so we may not be ones to have a huge soccer following for a professional soccer league (which we do have, if we hated soccer David Beckham wouldn't have moved over here to join an LA team), we still have them and people still go to them. I think soccer is slowly becoming more and more popular.