Terrific read. There are many quotable sections, but this one jumped out at me: "But there's a difference between soccer here and football there [in Europe] that stretches as far as the Texas plains. However marginal on the American professional level, soccer is a grass-roots phenomenon in the United States, practically a suburban rite of passage for the athletic boy and girl." True, true.
Its sad how the NFL tries to portray that this game is so important to the world when everyone knows it is strictly an American phenomenon. I wonder why they do this?
Advertising dollars. Convince advertisers that this holds a great importance not only here but across the world, and you can ask top dollar.
But what advertising dollars? It's not as though the rest of the planet sees those spiffy commercials, right?
I doubt it. Frankly it makes no sense, as American (English) tv commercials wouldn't necessarily work in non-English speaking countries. Plus, for example, in the auto commercials the cars being advertised wouldn't even be for sale in said market. These advertisers aren't completely stupid, the market for the StuporBowl is the USA; very few people outside of the US watch the game.