Well to tell you the truth nuala, you're half right with what you said. And for the other half, this is why americans hate soccer. They believe that soccer is not entertaining like football because they don't think that it's rough enough. When they see a game like football, where players beat each other up over a ball that looks like a busted oversized lemon, they continue to watch it because they find it fun and exciting. When they see soccer, where the only tackling that's involved is slide tackling, they think that it's not rough enough and that it's not worth watching. Another reason is because they think that it's boring. When they see a game like football where the players don't play continuously and the score's still 0-0 at half time, they get even more excited because they want to see who'll score first. However, with soccer, a sport where the players play continuosly, when the score is still 0-0 at half time, they find it boring not just because there's no score, but because they think that players bullshitt when they don't score in a continous game like that when they really aren't. For the past 4 years, the only way that you could see the european cup is on pay per view, where you'd have to pay some where between 20-40 bucks a game because stations such as espn and espn 2 won't carry it because they want to show stuff such as baseball and world championship poker, stuff that involves americans and takes place in america. When the concacaf gold cup was being played last year, the only station that carried it were the spanish channels because of the hispanic audience that we have in the u.s. For copa america, they had the spanish stations carry it for the saem reason. It suprises me how they can carry those games but not the european cup where spain, a country that ever hispanic roots for, participates in it. Now in this country, if want to watch some good soccer, you either have to get fox sports world or gol tv because espn will only carry mls games until the football season starts. When espn shows the champions league, they only show madrids games until they get knocked out. Once they get knocked out, then you could watch other games where madrid isn't playing. That and the final. The only way for soccer to get big in america is to have tv companies broadcast it more often as well as have the top european club teams play their preseason games in the u.s. so that more and people can get into it.

i like football because the ball is shaped like stewie's head.