Soccer set to overtake other sports in America

[bigdog5994]

not a ball game

but their getting hurt the hardest so it equals the best game

 

[sysyphus]

Maybe cause our hockey teams suck and haven' won a stanley cup in a while? But yeah, I vividly remember the craziness in the streets of Toronto 10 years ago when Portugal played Italy in the Euro. Little Italy is close to Little Portugal (or whatever you call it).. I was taking a bus from l.p. to l.i. and it was pure mayhem.

As for the growth of the sport on this continent,

Well, it's already doing well in Mexico.

It's doing well in Canada because in most cities it doesn't have much competition outside of hockey or CFL. Toronto is the only city that has teams in the U.S. sports, and the population is big enough to support it in addition to those. Like you said, TFC's crowds are second only to the Leafs.

In the US it's different. Every city has a multitude of sports teams that have long and deep followings so breaking into that is difficult.

 

[bhsup]

...it is actually proper to strike someone with a wooden stick, it could catch on like wildfire.

You have piqued my interest!

 

[Formaldehyde]

Link to video.


Link to video.

 

[Yui108]

Yeah about the football deaths and rugby deaths I found the following data...

Rugby with no pads---http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_deaths_have_there_been_playing_rugby

Football with pads---http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980610033631data_trunc_sys.shtml

For those who don't want to link, 71 recorded deaths ever for Rugby. Football I couldn't get an exact number, but it is clearly much higher than rugby based of those statistics alone. WITH PADS!

 

[azzaman333]

People dying from playing a sport is not a good thing.

 

[bigdog5994]

well i can see they dont hit each other as hard as they do in US football

 

[TheLastOne36]

About time they cought up to First World Standards.