| Well.. after reading your column this week Tom, and a good one it was, let me address the way I see football (soccer) as being viewed in America..
We say its boring. We say its unathletic. We say its for girls.
In reality, I believe this point that you raised because it goes into more then just sports when we talk about The U.S.
"If it didn't happen here, who cares?"
I think that's really the way we look at things in not only sports, but politics, movies, etc..
We say that England and other countries steal all of our shit like music or movies because all their own stuff sucks. I don't think that's the case. I think they are willing to look past their own things in life that they enjoy and are willing to give alternative things a chance.
We almost never give a foreign film a chance. What do we say when our girl starts looking in the foreign film section? "Ugh.. fuck that" and we walk back over to the new releases that we know will suck just as bad or maybe worse.
Soccer is the same. Will I ever enjoy it? I don't know, I wasn't brought up to love it as I do american football, or basketball, or baseball so I'll prolly never love it the same.. I don't have teams to root for or players that I see all the time and respect like I do in our sports..
However, I do watch the World Cup when its on and I must say that stuff is rivetting and extrememly entertaining.
Great column. |