Lord Pendragon:
I wasn't talking about your post in specific.
I think there seems to be a trend with comments about America from people who don't live here, and I don't think I'm the only one who has noticed it.
Here in the United States, professional basketball is more popular than soccer by a very large degree.Basketball was invented in the USA, so it makes sense. With that said, more kids here play soccer than basketball.
Why don't people here get into pro soccer much? We follow baseball. It's the great American pastime. I always wonder why people wonder at Americans not caring much about soccer. While all the time, we never think,why don't those Europeans like baseball, it must be because they only like things they beat everybody else in.
Another reason is because the United States has it's own football, totally different from English football, more like rugby. Of course football is very popular here. Football, the American kind, is popular in Canada too, where soccer isn't much more popular than it is here. Things are just done differently here.
So why is our football (and so many other things here) different? The United States formed from the very first colonies to gain independence from a major European power. This was long before the of rise of soccer an other leasure time persuits, which occured when most other countries in the world were European colonies, and the United States were already expanding and making their mark on the world. Does that make any sense to you?