US Soccer

We are #2 in the world in curling. Rugby we are ranked top 20, so about the same. I'll give you Nordic. I find it funny that 2 out of 3 of them are sports that are truly popular in half a dozen counties max

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2012/08/04/how-usain-bolt-earns-20-million-a-year/

 

All I'm saying is it's clearly not ridiculous to question the claim made by ip that soccer will be relevant in this country in a generation.

 

lol. we get housed in curling every time we're in the olympics, if we're #2, their rankings are even dumber than FIFA

 

The **** does this have to do with anything?

 

You seem to be saying that if we cared about soccer, we would dominate. That's silly.

 

Name something we care about that we don't dominate or at least aren't among the elite at?

 

Did you read the article?

 

Why do you think I asked the question?

 

It says right in there that the popularity in Europe has helped his earnings.

 

And then it goes on to say that he's so popular, even people in the USA show up to see him run.

So by that same logic we can say swimming was popular in the USA because Michael Phelps was plastered all over the place?

 

Sports? There's only one sport with massive international appeal, and we certainly aren't dominating it.

 

I'm talking anything. We dominate music, theater, movies, economics, the Internet, etc etc etc

 

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-01-17/sports/9301040264_1_billy-olson-track-and-field-sport

First sentence of article

 

Whoah, whoah, whoah, partner. Back the truck up. Beep! Beep! Beep!

Did you mess up when you wrote the first sentence, do you not know what the word 'silly'means, or is something else going on entirely?

 

Which part? If you think the best athletes in the US are not going into basketball and football, trying thinking again, and maybe harder this time.

 

Try to stay on topic.

 

Absolutely. Athletic talent is conspicuous as can be. The best athlete in kindergarten will remain the best athlete for the entirety. It's just a question of what sport he chooses.

 

but the best athlete is not always the best suited for a given sport. Marvell Wynne could destroy Lionel Messi in almost every sport you could name. And in soccer, Wynne can't make his national team and Messi is dominant.

 

The reason A.A. participation in baseball is decreasing has nothing to do with it being "it's a rich boy sport". It's simply because they tend to like basketball better. I certainly can't blame them.