25 Jun 09
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Originally posted by searcy1977At least the Spain - US game made it on ESPN ... not on ESPN2 behind college baseball which was on ESPN when the US played their Group B 1st two matches...
The majority of Americans still don't care about "football".
Soccer (football everywhere else) is fairly popular to play at the youth level though in the US at least in the Northeast US, also with the increase of Spanish-speaking people in the US, soccer culture should also increase. Of course so many other sports are very popular.
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I think there's maybe 2 or 3 other Americans besides me that follow real football.
I've been catching many of the matches so far but none of the USA matches. 😛 Americans don't understand what kind of upset this really is. I really don't have an analogy for it - that's the kind of shocking upset it is.
25 Jun 09
Originally posted by Badwater1988 FA Cup Final - Wimbledon 1-0 Liverpool
I think there's maybe 2 or 3 other Americans besides me that follow real football.
I've been catching many of the matches so far but none of the USA matches. 😛 Americans don't understand what kind of upset this really is. I really don't have an analogy for it - that's the kind of shocking upset it is.
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25 Jun 09
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Originally posted by BadwaterThe problem is that in the US, "real football" ranks below baseball, basketball, "tackleball", hockey, college basketball, college "tackleball", tiger woods worship, the tour de lance, and reality shows like "Survivor".
I think there's maybe 2 or 3 other Americans besides me that follow real football.
I've been catching many of the matches so far but none of the USA matches. 😛 Americans don't understand what kind of upset this really is. I really don't have an analogy for it - that's the kind of shocking upset it is.
Nevertheless, it does appear that Americans' interest in "real football" is rising - although I doubt it will ever be one of our premier sports to watch.
As I have posted elsewhere, the analogy that many Americans would think of is the US hockey team defeating the USSR at Lake Placid in the 1980 olympics. Hard to imagine anything equalling that, but US beating Spain comes close.
now if the US can beat Brazil....😀
