[DoodleBob]

A writer nailed it when he said as a kid, soccer was pushed on us, and so was the metric system — and for the same reason: The rest of the world did it; America was stubborn and behind. We needed to embrace the real football, soccer, played by thin, small, virtuous Third Worlders, who had no equipment save a ball, and maybe a few sticks for goals. Nets, too, if they were really lucky.

I never gave in to that sentiment, and stuck to American exceptionalism vs Globalist hegemony. However, with a few changes...

....maybe we could be swayed and soccer would be more popular.

[kearnyirish2]

In my town soccer has been around for over a century (many Irish & Scottish immigrants); we had three starters on the 1994 US team. Soccer has been here for years, but only where certain groups were a dominant majority - not just to play it, but to support it as well. While today it seems to be a very Third World sport, when it first came here it was all white people playing and watching.