Originally Posted by FunForOne

Television doesn't own the sports. The owners of the teams make money from the league selling advertising to Americans because that who has the money to spend on products. It is a shit load of money. The owners then pay the atheltes millions and millions of dollars to play those sports.

Advertisers realize that no one watches soccer so they dont pay money to advertise during soccer games.

Because football, basketball and baseball players make those millions of dollars, Kids that are good athletes dont play soccer. They play the popular sports like football and basketball.

That is the reason why the US isn't competative in world cup gibberish. Our best athletes are not participating.

Some of our soccer players are only 5'8" tall and weigh about 175lbs. That is just embarassing. It is a fact that the women's soccer team has essentially the same size players as the mens team.

You will say that size doesn't matter, but that is bullshit. Imagine of some of the NFL players grew up in a world where soccer players were popular and made money. The US would win the world cup every year. Can you imagine Shak as a goalie? Deion Sanders speed and quickness. It is a fact that NFL and NBA teams cut players that are bigger, stronger, faster and quicker than the soccer players participating in the world cup.

The best thing to happen to America is that the US lost their first game in the world cup, now we can stop having soccer shoved down our throat on the 4th page of the sports papers and start concentrating on real athletes.