its weird that soccer is so looked down on here b/c i bet more people in this country have played organized soccer than any other sport except baseball......
It's the same way here, american football is a lot bigger than rugby here though (as rugby barely exists). In fact, i was disappointed to recently find bleached-out american football lines on my local soccer teams home pitch during the games. Of course this is a hockey town and the local soccer teams kinda suck, but still, american football lines?
I knew there was an organisation, but it gets 0 national media coverage. I'd only heard of it because a mate's brother tried out for the local team in Reading. Looked them up on wikipedia and they are called the "Reading Renegades". Sounds pretty brutal the training, because he had to take muscle gain powder and pills to build his physique up to play, that just seems wrong to me. edit: Checked their roster and it looks like he made their team, #83 Rory Buckley But there are those that are dedicated to it, and there will always be a need for NFL games being shown on Sky etc. I tried watching the Superbowl this year, and someone scored a touchdown in the first few seconds and I thought "Woah! If this sport is like this all the time I could get into it", but then nothing at all happened for an hour so I switched off Its all about the way you are raised as a kid, which sports you are exposed to at an early age most likely determine what you will watch for the rest of your life. In America, as long as Soccer is on TV and readily available, the next generations will continue to build the fanbase.
Technically speaking, the "FC" in FC Dallas is actually an abbreviation of Futbol Club. Learn something new every day, eh?