Originally Posted by OccultHawk

True. MLS is trendy right now and fun and people are showing out for games. But like compared to football there’s no comparison. Everyone at work knows who won and who lost every top 25 college football game the previous Saturday. On Monday, everyone knows if there were any upsets in the NFL. Just for conversation with a coworker there’s going to be a good chance they don’t even know MLS is a thing.

I still think Bat is too dismissive of 50,000 plus fans making it to the games but other countries don’t get how sports crazy America is. I’ve compared soccer in Europe to college football in America. The numbers of fans who make it to games consistently in America are much higher than soccer in Europe. If MLS totals 1% of what football is here that’s still huge. Counting high school, college, and NFL and how woven into our cultural fabric football is 1% of that is huge.