Yeah I'm not a moron. I was associating you with Albania and Serbia.

Just been on the news, all five people on board the helicopter are expected to have died. One includes the owner of Leicester City.

Done a lot for the club and the region, and oversaw the greatest sporting story of all time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-...shire-46006470

What was that?

Not sure if you're taking the piss. But Leicester winning the league.

Americans don't know and don't care.

We've been through this before though and you were wrong.

The Hawk posts quite a bit in the football threads as well.

Bruh. I don't know where these isolated spots of soccer fans are but they're nowhere near me. I think you're just a ****ing nerd who really really wants us to be a soccer country when that's just not going to happen. All I know is that literally not a single person I've ever met in real life actually cares about soccer and a very significant percentage of them haven't even attempted to watch a game or would even know what channel to watch it on.

But hey if you've got statistics from a soccer website that has an interest in promoting soccer then I'm sure you're not using Merit logic.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ports-leagues/

Get over it.

I follow MLS and the World Cup. I can’t even tell you for sure what league Leicester is in. Premier I guess, which I don’t follow at all. Sorry if I let you down. I watch Atlanta United if I get a chance because I have a team to root for. League play in Europe doesn’t interest me at all so Bat is like half right in my case.

You don't even live here, what would you know? You're just a desperate soccer nerd.

Well I know because I'm a soccer nerd, obviously.

Third most attended sport (above NBA and NHL). Thanks.

Charles wasn't talking about Europe. MLS is soccer so thanks for letting us know you follow it mate.

When I was working at Ebay they had the world series on all the T.V.s and a lot of soccer fans crawled out of the wood works. And other than my coworker who was on a soccer team, I don't think any of them were passionate enough about it to where a jersey or a team logo like they would with football, baseball or basketball. Or, hell, even hockey. But they're out there. I think it's more of a thing they like between preferred sports.

And yet somehow my country you know nothing about gives a ****. It's pretty amazing how the third most attended sport in my country has not the slightest amount of hype.

I guess you'll never consider that any more than you'll consider anything else anyone has ever told you that you don't want to accept.

Good post.

I agree they are out there, despite what Charles thinks. The evidence is in the average attendances.

Thanks for your contribution, Lucem.

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.

It top trends on social media regularly. That is a decent amount of hype. Thanks.

NBA arenas are intentionally small. The season is 82 games. LeBron James alone is more famous than all of MLS combined.

Female Wrestling > Soccer

Thanks Hawk.

Re: first bit I wouldn't even argue against that because it would be ridiculous. But like you say Charles is being too dismissive.

He gets very anxious and offended by this. I don't know why.

I get where Bat's coming from though. I never see or meet these illusive soccer fans.

Congrats on telling me about what my own country cares about.

I think it's dumb as all ****ing **** to tell me how popular soccer is in America when absolutely nobody, not anybody, not a single ****ing person in my life of people who legit care about sports ever ever ever ever ever even mentions soccer. And if I were to ask them about a soccer game they'd probably look at me funny. Like, why is this guy talking to me about some game that doesn't matter outside of... wherever the hell they play soccer.

I think you're just an idiot who needs soccer to be popular in America.

He trolls you on it. I wish I knew more about soccer. I’m with you it’s a great sport. I mean obviously that doesn’t need to be said. By far the most popular sport in the world. And in America MLS is drawing big crowds. That’s awesome. Why wouldn’t we want a successful soccer league. It’s a great thing.

Back to the mail bomb fiasco, the Secret Service screens all packages addressed to persons under their protection.

The U.S. Postal Service does not deliver mail directly to such individuals [i.e. the people who cliam to have gotten mail bombs], but rather re-directs it to the Secret Service to screen it. If such individuals DID get mailed such bombs, then the Secret Service would have intercepted them first. So, more food for thought.

Can you tell me why the American public at large and his numbers don't seem to align? What the **** is going on? My theory is that a large number of Hispanic immigrants are finally making themselves unwanted.

On the other hand, Real Salt Lake really does have a foothold in the community out there. For such a relatively small population (no offense) Utah represents with The Utes, BYU, and the Jazz. Plus, Utah State is getting some buzz this year. On top of all that Real Salt Lake, too.

Claims nobody cares.

Third most attended sport.

Why do you think I want it to be popular in the US, just out of interest? (You are wrong BTW.)

Dude- MLS is kicking ass making it a great experience for fans. Sure lots of hispanics are into it but their bread and butter is still white surburbia. Tickets and food and parking are a little cheaper - the fans like the product- and they’re packing the stadiums with knowledgeable enthusiastic fans. Why does that piss you off?

Yeah, I know it has to be big when we make an official beer for it, but I just don't ever meet these soccer fans.

You want Americans to turn away from football and abandon it for soccer so soccer can globally be known as football like you feel it rightfully should be.

I don't get bothered by people calling it soccer, it would be silly considering the origin of the word.

I meet enough annoying football and basketball fans as it is. The idea that another sport might force me to have yet more sports conversations I want no part in is sickening. And when those sports fans try to blow smoke up my ass when I know nobody actually cares all I want is to push them down the stairs.

Luckily I know that whatever the truth is Fluff doesn't smell a whiff of it.

The truth is that it's the third most attended sport in the USA.

lol at first paragraph as well, you absolute tart.

I don't like soccer. Nobody I know likes soccer either. However I do know there are some big-time fans out there in my country. Definitely wayyy more football fans, though.

And of course RS Ale is a bitch ass IPA at a bitch ass 4% (welcome to Utah) for a bitch ass sport.

And yet this has always been news to me so I question whether you are jerking it to the statistics that make you feel good just like Merit. Congrats, Flat Earther.

Dude the MLS attendance is huge

Get real

I hate when Americans bash soccer

It’s embarrassing

about 24.4 million people play soccer in the US. Sounds reasonably big to me, since first hand participation rates are ussually lower than simply watching a sport on TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer..._United_States

Gallup numbers. They're a credible source for statistics.

Must be a sleeper hit then. A comatose hit.