Explain the allure of soccer to me.

[Aragorn243]

The US had better get used to it as within a generation Soccer will grow in popularity here in the USA.

When I was in high school they said the exact same thing. They also said as the previous poster mentioned that we would be using the metric system within 10 years.

I graduated high school nearly 30 years ago. The metric system is still only used to measure soda (they used it more then in reality) and soccer is still ignored by everyone other than the parents of young children and said young children.

Our daughter's high school has a championship caliber boys soccer team. No one cares. They also have a football team that has not won more than 2 games per season in the last 5 years. The bleachers are packed, the boosters dominate all other sports with the possible exception of band (yes, considered a sport, scary isn't it) and when they introduce the various teams in the fall, most comments revolve around how much the football team would benefit if the losers on the soccer team weren't mommas boys.

Soccer is slightly more popular now than then and I expect a slow increase in interest will continue but I doubt it will ever reach the popularity of a dozen other sports that currently are regularly broadcast on network TV including golf, tennis, NASCAR, football, basketball, college basketball and college football and odd as it may sound, beach volleyball.