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OP, No it will never be very popular in this nation.
Given the current demographics in America today, NO.
Wait a few decades. Once the founding stock dies off, the answer might be different. Most of the recent immigrants, both legal and illegal, aren't fans of the big 4 US sports groups. It will be interesting to see which sports their US born offspring prefer.
Played out in front of massive in stadium crowds and shown across the globe on mainstream TV channels like the foitball world cup?
Google says the last baseball World Cup was 2011. I’d never heard of it.
Half the US won’t watch the US women’s national team because the face of the team was a purple-haired lesbian. They won’t watch the men because they’re not particularly competitive against a top-10 team and the US has an awful lot of fair weather fans. We get the trolls here occasionally who typify that group.
Played out in front of massive in stadium crowds and shown across the globe on mainstream TV channels like the foitball world cup?
For American Football yes...120,000 pack into a small college town stadiums every single weekend ...all fall..every year...not just once every 4 years for a global event.
In some "small towns", the party (tailgate) starts the day before, or multiple days before, and again this is EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND..... all across the USA.... every single year.
It's going on right now.
Go look up the University of Alabama and the small Alabama town in sits in...there are many examples like that.
I think we have close to 70 Power 5 schools, spread out all over the US...most in small towns/cities.
I really wish the rest of the world would understand American Football like Americans do..it's quite the event.
Google says the last baseball World Cup was 2011. I’d never heard of it.
Half the US won’t watch the US women’s national team because the face of the team was a purple-haired lesbian. They won’t watch the men because they’re not particularly competitive against a top-10 team and the US has an awful lot of fair weather fans. We get the trolls here occasionally who typify that group.
renamed the World Baseball Classic...Japan just won this past March.
62 million viewers watched their win over Korea, in Japan alone..that's 50% of the people living in the entire country!
By comparison...hardly anyone on the United States watched the last Soccer World Cup.
The US/England match did many times worse than a typical NFL game so it is just not a big event here
I really wish the rest of the world would understand American Football like Americans do..it's quite the event.
Event is right. Sport? Eh, not so much. The band, the tailgating, the drinking in the stadium, the cheerleading - it's all more entertaining than the actual sport bit. Americans do events like no other - their sports just don't seem to appeal on a global level with basketball being an exception. We just don't care.
And having been to Gainesville, Ann Arbor and Tuscaloosa, I'm not surprised their stadia are full, nothing else to do in town.
When the World Baseball Classic gets 1.5 billion viewers, as the last World Cup Final got, let us know.
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Event is right. Sport? Eh, not so much. The band, the tailgating, the drinking in the stadium, the cheerleading - it's all more entertaining than the actual sport bit. Americans do events like no other - their sports just don't seem to appeal on a global level with basketball being an exception. We just don't care.
And having been to Gainesville, Ann Arbor and Tuscaloosa, I'm not surprised their stadia are full, nothing else to do in town.
When the World Baseball Classic gets 1.5 billion viewers, as the last World Cup Final got, let us know.
No..the sport is superior also.
You can be as creative with the pieces as you want, within the rules, which is why coaches are always encouraged/celebrated to invent new ways to play the game.
Again soccer is a rotary phone...American football is a smart phone.
Why would American be interested in a rotary phone if they are holding a smart phone???
On the World Baseball Classic...50% of Japan got up in the middle of the night to watch the games. It was huge in 3 continents...North America, South America & Asia bit it is not at Soccer level yet but baseball and basketball are FAR outpacing soccer in GROWTH in the world.
Europe still embraces the Old World Sports but that is changing.
renamed the World Baseball Classic...Japan just won this past March.
62 million viewers watched their win over Korea, in Japan alone..that's 50% of the people living in the entire country!
By comparison...hardly anyone on the United States watched the last Soccer World Cup.
The US/England match did many times worse than a typical NFL game so it is just not a big event here
We just don't care
How can it be a "big event worldwide' when nobody has ever heard of it and its not even televised?
You can be as creative with the pieces as you want, within the rules, which is why coaches are always encouraged/celebrated to invent new ways to play the game.
It's taken me up until this post to realize you're on a huge wind-up. As creative as you want - it just so happens all the plays are rehearsed and the coaching is done via a headset - it's like a military exercise.
You can be as creative with the pieces as you want, within the rules, which is why coaches are always encouraged/celebrated to invent new ways to play the game.
Again soccer is a rotary phone...American football is a smart phone.
Why would American be interested in a rotary phone if they are holding a smart phone???
On the World Baseball Classic...50% of Japan got up in the middle of the night to watch the games. It was huge in 3 continents...North America, South America & Asia bit it is not at Soccer level yet but baseball and basketball are FAR outpacing soccer in GROWTH in the world.
Europe still embraces the Old World Sports but that is changing.
You're entitled to your opinion, but... Aside from basketball's growth, the reach in this post is quite impressive, if not delusional.
You think most people who host/attend superbowl parties actually care about the game itself? Remove ads, remove the halftime show, remove beer, party wings, and whatever else is often associated with the "EVENT," and tell me how many of your peers are going to want to spend a Sunday hanging out just sitting in front of a screen watching 10 minutes of play over the course of 2 hours. Again, no ads, no extra entertainment, JUST the game itself.
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On the World Baseball Classic...50% of Japan got up in the middle of the night to watch the games.
This doesn't make any sense. The ~60M viewership is the total worldwide of people who tuned in to watch. Are you saying that ONLY people in Japan watched this?
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