Comments on: United States Population Interest in Soccer by Percentage

By: fmptard

fmptard — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:49:29 +0000

you’re right. a lot of kids DO play rec soccer (me included). it’s a fun game.
but it is boring as f*ck to watch. honestly… it’s low-scoring, long-lasting, and most of the violence is in the stands. how could you pay attention to THAT for 2 hours? don’t call it “more interesting” than OUR football!

one day, Western Europeans will see that hockey is where it’s at (Eastern Europe seems to have gotten the memo, if the Olympics and the ratio of player nationalities in the NHL are any indication).

By: lorenzo

lorenzo — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:25:24 +0000

no every 4 years

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:02:33 +0000

My Lord, I hope you were kidding

By: udely

udely — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:07:03 +0000

i think that’s a f-ing answer

By: William

William — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:04:35 +0000

Actually, the Japanese possibly like baseball more than we do.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:38:52 +0000

Soccer, yeah right that’s a real cute sport. Specially the way you bouce the ball over your head. I personally don’t like any sport where you don’t use your hands.

By: tyler

tyler — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:25:17 +0000

:/ i like to think my head comes out of my own, or someone else’s, rectum at least SOME of the time, and i’m american :/

By: tyler

tyler — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:23:24 +0000

sometimes the chinese are

By: ben

ben — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:55:08 +0000

If you notice, the y axis represents percent of fan interest, which means this graph is normalized to the total number of soccer fans in the US, not the total number of people in the US

By: Jayme

Jayme — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:38:17 +0000

How about you all go do some research on the lovely sport of soccer and you will see that it is currently the fastest growing sport in the United States and the amount of spectators is rapidly increasing and will soon pass up the number of spectators for the terrible sport of football.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:05:49 +0000

The florida marlins or memphis grizzlies would be glad to get half as many fans at their games as compared to the average MLS team. The beautiful game is growing here, just give it time.

By: Feynix7

Feynix7 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:02:28 +0000

Why can’t we all just get along and watch curling?

By: harrison rein

harrison rein — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:00:53 +0000

soccer is the most interesting and popular sport in the world, and my parents were one of those “pricks” who pushed me into soccer. and tell you the truth i’m glad.
and football is just a cheap copy of soccer, made to satisfy poeples need for violence.

By: Lysenko

Lysenko — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:55:04 +0000

“Stupid boring waste of time”? I’m pretty sure that virtually no one in the rest of the world is interested in baseball…

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:02:12 +0000

lol… no

By: Rookie

Rookie — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:22:41 +0000

Maybe no one you know…but I guess you haven’t looked at a rec complex lately and seen the hundreds of kids up there playing soccer…or have heard of all the people in this country who follow European soccer teams. Personally, I’d say soccer is a hell of a lot more interesting than something like, say, football (the American kind).

By: The Manticore

The Manticore — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:36:17 +0000

why does the # of months til go to twenty? World cup is every year…right?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:36:29 +0000

i would say that the graph is accurate regarding the time frame of interest, but it should only be like 10% tops. who cares about soccer? it’s such a stupid boring waste of time. and i’m pretty sure that virtually no one in the US is interested.

By: Dum....

Dum.... — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:17:21 +0000

I would argue that it is difficult to see what the rest of the world does if your head is stuck up your, or someone else’s, rectum.

Of course, I am not saying that ALL Americans ACTUALLY have their heads up their, or someone else’s, rectum, as may merely act like it.

By: geekd

geekd — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:52:17 +0000

I would argue that even during the world cup, the percentage of Americans interested in soccer is less than 10%

By: daisy4given

daisy4given — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:30:59 +0000

agreed, dan.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:01:53 +0000

i would argue that the interest spiked maybe 10 percent when david beckham landed in LA (but in general, what a failure to attract interest that was!)