You're from Peru dude?

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" @Chocolate Lantern:  As far as the reason to why Soccer is less popular in America, it's because Football, Baseball, and Basketball have all been being played for around a century. They are just ingrained in American culture. Soccer (football) came around in America a lot later and has seriously been growing in popularity. Baseball, basketball and American football have been around since the days when America was taking an isolationist approach. Now that America is globally reaching out Soccer is becoming slowly very popular. However the  American culture still revolves around the big 3. "

I understand what you mean. Like football as been here for centuries. And apparently, to my knowledge, an Englishman was fed up with using his feet probably weren't any good, so he picked the ball up and not long form that rugby was made. That got popular in American and then American Football was made. This was like late 18 hundreds. "

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lol, the clock comment was a general statement not aimed at you Supreme...you seem a tad bit defensive...but just other incorrect posts here about sports....  

And my opinion just as yours and everyone elses here is what we all like, but that doesn't alter the fact that your list was off...with your top 10 in rank.....india having more people then America proves nothing though you should know....like you were telling me before, about "the world doesn't revolve around america" well it doesn't revolve around India or any other individual country either...lol I can make up the difference with Latin america, US, Canada and various parts of Asia who play Baseball...just saying ;)
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Cricket I know is popular in Europe mainly and India, but on this side of the world totally different story...America, Canada and Latin America there isn't any well known, huge Cricket leagues....those regions it's typically all Soccer, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey and American Football...

 I also didn't ask for anyone to list legends

 now you talk Soccer legends? How many are there? lol exactly.

Yeah, no dude lol I wasn't talking about the players you listed(I'm sure they're are legends) of soccer but your other list about top sports..  
 
In terms of most watched? That varies, the Yankees for one are VERY watched and have a national audience around US, and even Canada, Worldwide, Japan you'd be surprised how many people outside the US love the Yankees... 
 
We have a NY soccer team here but nobody cares about them, I did see their new stadium it's nice but there's just no scene for it here..that's where like Luna stated, you have different cultures and parts of the world that enjoy different things... 
 
Most watched though doesn't always mean most popular, there are sports that more people watch but never go to the games, in terms of watched Baseball and Football are up there for sure, but I also know yearly they sell ridiculous amount in tickets...
  

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" @Lunacyde said:

" @Chocolate Lantern:  As far as the reason to why Soccer is less popular in America, it's because Football, Baseball, and Basketball have all been being played for around a century. They are just ingrained in American culture. Soccer (football) came around in America a lot later and has seriously been growing in popularity. Baseball, basketball and American football have been around since the days when America was taking an isolationist approach. Now that America is globally reaching out Soccer is becoming slowly very popular. However the  American culture still revolves around the big 3. "

I understand what you mean. Like football as been here for centuries. And apparently, to my knowledge, an Englishman was fed up with using his feet probably weren't any good, so he picked the ball up and not long form that rugby was made. That got popular in American and then American Football was made. This was like late 18 hundreds. "

Right. Basically Football and Baseball are like I said ingrained into American culture. Growing up our heroes are football or baseball or basketball players. We see ourselves as Bart Starr, or Roger Staubach, or Dan Marino in our back yards. We play stickball in the yard with our friends and pretend we are Joe DiMaggio or Ken Griffey Jr.  My Dad gave me a football as soon as I could walk, I got a baseball glove when I was six. We used to play catch for hours, just me and my Dad. It's a father son bonding thing. Fathers hope their sons will grow up to be football or baseball or basketball stars....at least thats my take. "

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Yeah, no dude lol I wasn't talking about the players you listed(I'm sure they're are legends) of soccer but your other list about top sports..  
 
In terms of most watched? That varies, the Yankees for one are VERY watched and have a national audience around US, and even Canada, Worldwide, Japan you'd be surprised how many people outside the US love the Yankees..."

Yeah, I hear what you're saying but often articles(will be biased) if I read one for example, over here it would probably say NFL is the top then Baseball and everything else(which I know isn't true worldwide) and Baseball trust me(as an american) is farrr more played overall in US and worldwide then Basketball is...Basketball has grown much from years ago but Baseball has grown even further, as it's played in Asia now, some parts of Europe(not many but a few) and of course this side of the world it's very popular. 
   
Survey's also often are limited to certain areas I've noticed, like the ones they put out there sometimes about highest paid sport....some I've read stated Basketball and Football(american) but that was wrong, believe it or not Baseball pays far more then any other sport(they make ridiculous money...lol) as in millions upon millions each year...it's pretty nuts

" Yeah, I hear what you're saying but often articles(will be biased) if I read one for example, over here it would probably say NFL is the top then Baseball and everything else(which I know isn't true worldwide) and Baseball trust me(as an american) is farrr more played overall in US and worldwide then Basketball is...Basketball has grown much from years ago but Baseball has grown even further, as it's played in Asia now, some parts of Europe(not many but a few) and of course this side of the world it's very popular.    Survey's also often are limited to certain areas I've noticed, like the ones they put out there sometimes about highest paid sport....some I've read stated Basketball and Football(american) but that was wrong, believe it or not Baseball pays far more then any other sport(they make ridiculous money...lol) as in millions upon millions each year...it's pretty nuts "

Yeah I know Basketball is played in Europe man lol I had even said there's a league(not as big as NBA's) but still, and same for Hockey now too...Baseball is bigger in Asia and a few parts of Europe(not a lot) and the rest of the world...more or less. 
 
Globally I'm telling you Baseball is more played then Basketball, Basketball doesn't even have a world competition where Baseball does every few years...that's proof right there, Basketball isn't that huge in Asia(there's like literally 1 or 2 max asian players in NBA lol) 
 
A lot of surveys in general are usually dependent on the area and can be biased, even ones here...I just prefer to find out for myself.

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Yeah I know Basketball is played in Europe man lol I had even said there's a league(not as big as NBA's) but still, and same for Hockey now too...Baseball is bigger in Asia and a few parts of Europe(not a lot) and the rest of the world...more or less. 
 
Globally I'm telling you Baseball is more played then Basketball, Basketball doesn't even have a world competition where Baseball does every few years...that's proof right there, Basketball isn't that huge in Asia(there's like literally 1 or 2 max asian players in NBA lol) 
 
A lot of surveys in general are usually dependent on the area and can be biased, even ones here...I just prefer to find out for myself.

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I hate how people just make up sh#t about Americans.We invented less than half of the sports that exist and yet we televise all of them..so how the hell won't we accept a sport because it's not American? That's just ignorant. 

I'm pretty sure Soccer/Football continues to grow in popularity (in the United States). The World Cup is especially popular and Olympic Soccer is always one of the major draws for American T.V. audiences. The 94' FIFA World Cup shattered an attendance record that had been around since the 50's (which was held in the US :D). Now I'm not sure how accurate Wikipedia is on the subject, but according to them it was the single highest attended sporting match in U.S. history. I'd say the majority of Americans have full on embraced Soccer (you cant turn around in the states without another soccer complex going up). The younger generations especially seem to have embraced soccer more so then say, Baseball. Sure there are still pockets of Sunday morning arm chair qaurterbacks who will never accept Soccer but I don't think its fair to cast the whole of the United States under one umbrella. That would be like us (the States) saying that all European Soccer fans are Road Flare hurling racists criminals ;)

I didn't know Americans didn't accept Soccer. I always have, and used to play it when I was younger. It's as real a sport as basketball is.

I hear Manchester united are the most popular sports team in the whole wide world.

America has a soccer league. MLS I have been to a few DC United games and I had a blast. I even went and saw Beckham play when he was on the Galaxy

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Yeah I know Basketball is played in Europe man lol I had even said there's a league(not as big as NBA's) but still, and same for Hockey now too...Baseball is bigger in Asia and a few parts of Europe(not a lot) and the rest of the world...more or less. 
 
Globally I'm telling you Baseball is more played then Basketball, Basketball doesn't even have a world competition where Baseball does every few years...that's proof right there, Basketball isn't that huge in Asia(there's like literally 1 or 2 max asian players in NBA lol) 
 
A lot of surveys in general are usually dependent on the area and can be biased, even ones here...I just prefer to find out for myself.

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@Supreme, not being biased just posting the facts guy ;)  
 
@Wafflefries, oh yeah dude I'm not denying that(I know there's leagues all over) but was just stating it's not as BIG as it is here and in Europe but a lot of sports have grown over the past 10 years worldwide in general now as oppose to years ago where it was just Hockey-canada, Baseball-usa, Basketball-usa, soccer-everywhere for the most part except a few places... I already said though just so I can establish what I meant that baseball isn't the biggest in europe..like a  few places but that's it lol, asia, usa, canada and south america especially though it's 100 x more popular. ;) but yeah I hear what you're saying.
 
But now you see they're all growing vastly all over the place ;) which is good.
 

lol ^ He does that, lol I can't stop thinking about Happy Feet everytime I see him post :P

Soccer is the best sport ever

honestly all sports bore the crap out of me. hell just the concept of watching a match/round/game for an hour is enough to make me blow my brains out. but honestly i would rather watch soccer any day over the other sports people mindlessly drone to

" Soccer is the best sport ever "

"Soccer is the best sport ever "

A bit off-topic here... I can clearly say that the reason the Philippines is the only not-soccer-crazy country in Asia is because the Americans are not that much into it. It's a bit disappointing that our likes or dislikes are highly-dictated by the US cause we think we're little brown Americans. Still lovely to watch some NBA though. Ever since I moved to Australia the Basketball I watch seem to suck more and more! Well at least Aussies appreciate some real football (though they still prefer rugby). Hehehe!