On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't represent the sport. At no time have I ever been charged with such > a > task. > > The reason it will never catch on in the US is because the US generally has > too short of an attention span. That's why they like US football. Lots of > meat headed adrenaline (with protective gear suitable for military > conflict) and you only have to pay attention for like 20 seconds then they > blow the whistle and you get around 5 minutes to rest your weary brain. >
Oh? Then explain the popularity of baseball. You aint gonna be able to reduce it down to one simple reason...especially not some blatantly incorrect over-generalization about our attention spans :) A guy on the radio here yesterday made an interesting point that might have some validity to it though....soccer is one of the only "fluid" sports. It starts, goes on for 90 minutes, then finishes. US sports tend to have specific plays....well defined situations...scenarios. Innings. Drives. One team on offense, the other on defense...then it switches, etc. etc. Soccer's constant ebb and flow, it's fluid motion, it's back and forth style seemingly without confine......it's really a different scene then what we are used to watching in our sports. I dunno.....that may be complete BS too. -- Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:321528 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
