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Topic	Which of these teams do you think will win the World Cup
ParanoidObsessive 11/16/22 10:15:08 AM #21:	Nichtcrawler-X posted... Yet you are (jointly) hosting the next one. We hosted the one in 1994 and didn't give a shit about it then either. People keep trying to find ways to make us care, and it never works. Nichtcrawler-X posted... Clearly enough to spend a lot of money on it. "Money" is the key word there. The main reason why the US bothers trying to host the Cup is the same reason why cities try to host the Olympics - and why we do pretty much everything else. It's seen as an investment, and an attempt to recoup the money spent by earning even more money via tourism, merch rights, advertising, and so on. It may not work (it rarely does for Olympic host cities these days), but that's the motivation. Not a deep and abiding love of the game. wpot posted... We're a big enough country that we'll dig up some fans somewhere It's mostly first or second generation immigrants, honestly. 99% of the time, if you come across someone who's seriously into soccer, it's someone who either moved to the US from a futbol-obsessed country or the kids of that sort of person who grew up watching it. The longer you live in the US, the more you lose interest in "The Beautiful Game". Americans tend to see soccer as something their kids play at school, but it's not a "real" sport worth caring about. Fuck, we care more about golf than we do soccer, and we barely care about that either. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:969466542] in Which of t... [t:80234149]...</cite> <quote><cite>Nichtcrawler-X posted...</cite><quote>Yet you are (jointly) hosting the next one. </quote>We hosted the one in 1994 and didn't give a shit about it then either.People keep trying to find ways to make us care, and it never works.<cite>Nichtcrawler-X posted...</cite><quote>Clearly enough to spend a lot of money on it. </quote>"Money" is the key word there.The main reason why the US bothers trying to host the Cup is the same reason why cities try to host the Olympics - and why we do pretty much everything else. It's seen as an investment, and an attempt to recoup the money spent by earning even more money via tourism, merch rights, advertising, and so on.It may not work (it rarely does for Olympic host cities these days), but that's the motivation. Not a deep and abiding love of the game.<cite>wpot posted...</cite><quote>We're a big enough country that we'll dig up some fans somewhere</quote>It's mostly first or second generation immigrants, honestly. 99% of the time, if you come across someone who's seriously into soccer, it's someone who either moved to the US from a futbol-obsessed country or the kids of that sort of person who grew up watching it. The longer you live in the US, the more you lose interest in "The Beautiful Game".Americans tend to see soccer as something their kids play at school, but it's not a "real" sport worth caring about. Fuck, we care more about golf than we do soccer, and we barely care about that either. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76"POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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