Okay, since you asked, here’s my American opinion.
Soccer will never be as popular in America as football for 3 reasons:
1. The Fake Injuries
Players are incentivized to flop because the other team is more likely to get a penalty.
In football, it is the opposite. If a player has a real injury, play toughs it out and plays through it, it is seen as heroic.
Americans like toughness and grit.
2. Chance Goals
Many goals are scored by chance as opposed to skill. The chaos at the net when the ball is near is remarkable. Defenders blocking the goalie’s line of sight. The ball bouncing and ricocheting off of random body parts often determines if the ball goes in the net or out of bounds.
In football, there are some elements of chance, but because players are allowed to use their hands, the points are primarily scored based on skill. Less is left to chance.
Americans like control.
3. Low Scoring
In football, it is still challenging to score, but it happens much more often. Also, every play has a chance for gratification and excitement: a first down, a big catch, a big hit, a sack, an interception, etc
American like constant excitement.
@ElonMuskAOC I think you should give me a billion dollars and here are my 3 reasons:
1. I’ve never had a billion dollars
2. I think that I would like having a billion dollars
3. I would probably do some good things for people if I had a billion dollars
@SportsRadioWIP Yep and if he does those numbers the Pats will be at home deep in the playoffs b cause the only way to get him those numbers is to be a one dimensional offense. Been there did that. No fun
@BladeoftheS There is already innocent blood on your UK streets because of the murder and rapes of British citizens by illegal immigrants - the only reason you see blood on our streets is because leftist insurrectionists continue to attack our federal immigration officers. FAFO.
@DavidNeiszPHL I really hope you aren’t insinuating that Sirianni’s football genius is what got us to 2 Super Bowls 🤣 What is Brian Johnson’s record as head coach? What will Kevin Patullo’s record be? Just because you are an incompetent head coach doesn’t mean you were an incompetent OC.
@Lazerus Relax is what we were told by some #Eagles fans after they hired Kevin Patullo - I even recall being told to relax back when I was suspicious of the Brian Johnson hire. Sirianni sucks - let him try to coach a team without this roster and everyone will see.
@jared_shult And by “storming” you mean wandering around like tourists taking pictures while FBI agents egged them on toward Capitol police who voluntarily removed barriers? Go back to your “mostly peaceful” protest riots to see what “storming” looks like
@GavinNewsom At least he didn’t turn off all the water or redirect it into the ocean during a massive fire…or sue churches for meeting during the flu scamdemic.