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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
They are not good enough at it.
They love sports they are top at, Baseball, American Football, Ice Hockey and Basketball. Even if the rest of the world hardly plays some of these sports it does not matter, they are the top at them. Where do they play Baseball or American Football in earnest beside America?
They even call the Baseball finals The World Series . 
If the USA Football team rises to the top 5 nations in the world then Americans will start to love it. Until then it will be a minor sport in the US.
It's called Football not soccer. American Football has little to do with feet except for kicking the extra point, standing and running on.  |
Quit the hate. More like jealousy. Americans call it soccer not football. Get over it. Please start talking about "football" to Americans when you mean soccer and see how many looks you get. We're not changing the name. Listen in the UK fries are called chips and chips in the US are something completely different. Now if I'm in the UK I'm not going to go around telling everyone they need to call "chips" fries even though when you think about it fries are actually FRIED hence the name. And they certainly don't resemble what one would think chips should look like. So if I'm in the UK and I want fries I'm going to order "chips" no matter how stupid I think the name is.
Oh by the way I'm pretty sure Canadians would argue with you that Americans are better at hockey.
Honestly I'm not sure why non-Americans are so concerned that Americans call it soccer.