The biggest thing is to keep the pittance of a national coverage MLS has going. But still continue to build strong local TV deals. Once you can gain strong regional followings that give you close to the 15+ million a year deals like NHL/NBA/MLB club teams have, Then you'll see the shift really happen.
I have been looking at your sports media and the sites that posters suggested. Looking from the outside in it seems to me there is a big nay huge nay massive media bias against Football from your mainstream media, they simply don't report a lot of stuff, and the negativity and cynicism pouring out at times is mind-blowing. I feel for you guys we are or where similar in this regard but Football today in Australia gets heaps of mainstream coverage compared its prior years and its increasing. Wish you luck and hope it starts to turn around for you.
The USA not having qualifying for the World Cup has brought out all the trolls and pricks in the US who don't like the sport. Soccer in the USA is gonna need all the luck it can get. I can't see it turning around for decades, thanks to this massive blunder.
Combining club and national team games, of the 100 most watched players on TV in the USA, how many are American? Wouldn't the list include a lot of players on Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Mexicans? The media can make fun of the USMNT for not qualifying, but will the most watched leagues on TV in the USA be watched less because the USMNT didn't qualify? There are some people who watch Liga MX and root against the USMNT.
Kudos for being aware enough to pick up on this. Sometimes I think people outside the U.S. don't realize the degree to which are own mainstream culture either ignores or actively disparages the game.
Genuine question, as search engines put up things the IT system says you will like and click on…… meaning you can live on the net and essentially have a continual feed of articles confirming your viewpoint and re-enforcing your biases. One aspect of my experience in the US & looking at your media is that Football is seen as a foreign game…. Or its not a US game and its played by foreigners, and this is seen as some kinda slight on the game i.e. not being an American game. Am I right or is this simply me being over reactive or maybe over reading things….
You're right. Lots of Americans appreciate soccer, just as lots of Americans embrace diversity and globalism, but there are still those who would prefer to retreat into an idealized world in which radio is the medium or television is black-and-white, baseball is still all white and dominates the sports pages, and the rest of society is ordered accordingly.
There is a strain of that still going on. Also, there's a relatively common view that sees soccer as primarily a women's sport. In montage commercials for Gatorade or Dick's Sporting Goods, for example, men usually play American football, baseball, and basketball, while women usually are featured playing soccer and tennis. Both of those views probably aren't quite as bad as they were 25 years ago, however. I'd say the main problem is simple indifference. Casual sports fans might watch the World Cup, but even then many seem to use it as an excuse to hang out in a bar during the day and root for Italy or Ireland because of some distant family relation. Less than 12 hours after the U.S. failed to qualify, it was pretty much already a forgotten story in terms of mainstream news coverage.
Is that gender bias or just reality? We don't have women's professional leagues for American football (other than lingerie) or baseball. I don't know who the most popular WNBA athlete is, but I could see Alex Morgan and the Williams sisters being more popular than any WNBA player. American male soccer and tennis players will never be as popular as the most popular MLB, NFL, and NBA players.
Dinosaurs still live among us. https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/soccer-corrupt-hyper-regulated-low-scoring-boring/#slide-1
Reads like a copy paste job of something from twenty years ago. I would've guessed he's 70 at least but looks like he's 52.
Funny, isn't it, how some people feel the need to write entire columns on how boring soccer is? As if they're afraid someone might see a game and actually enjoy it.
Yes. It still pisses me off that when the DC hockey team won the Stanley cup, there was all this talk about the first “major” championship for DC in theft years or whatever. Total bullshit given DC United’s success. Never mind the fact that MLs outdraws both the NBA and the NHL now, doesn’t seem to matter. Typical America: facts don’t matter
Why should they? Neither is a threat to the “Big Three”. Facts are, we can fill up stadiums all day long, but as long as TV ratings stay as they are now, bias and poor coverage of the MLS will continue. TV rules everything in professional sports.......everything. Just aren’t good guys.
Just read this. I will respond as an inner city coach from a high school here in Houston Texas U.S.A. that is the most diverse high school in our nation. An inner city high school that Anthony Bourdain graced us with his New York presence. A school where I have buried three students due to gang warfare. This just in the past school year my friends who are reading. But it is our association football team that unifies our student body. From African to Mexican, to Sallie, to Catracho, to Chapine to Iraqi to East Asian. With am Army combat veteran head coach and me some lifer sports die hard, redneck, gridiron n baseball coach as well that devotes our time to raising talented soccer players. He will perhaps read my rebuttal and ignore it. However this hater will be called out for being ignorant of the majority of his write up. And that is on him.
It is. If that dinosaur who wrote that article about Soccer talked that way about any code of Rugby, he'd get his clock cleaned.
The Rochester Raging Rhinos are a soccer club on hiatus. I wonder why they were included but not the Red Bulls and NYCFC. The New York Liberty in the WNBA weren't included either.
I don't know about NY but in most states you have get enough commitments for a specialty plate before they will offer it. Then once you get it, it will stick around until registrations fall below a certain level. My guess is that Rochester had a lot of interest back in the day and they have had enough renewals to keep it active. We had a Dynamo plate in Texas for a while but there weren't enough renewals/new registrations for it so it is no longer available.
I just want to interject my personal distaste for these kind of vanity plates. The state I was just living in (Virginia) allowed tons of different plates such that I saw a lot of University of Alabama crimson "A" on Virginia license plates. All for that extra dollar.