I think soccer is more comparable to basketball, but without the scoring. Both can be played in the streets with little equipment and are far less structured than football or baseball.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Umm it would be a test to figure out the tau protein build up in the brain. Nothing to do with DNA…
It's already happening to some extent.
I think that MLS will be one of the best if not the best Professional League in the world in 50 years or so. I also think that college soccer will eventual become super popular and rival and / or surpass football (when it is finally determined to be too brutal to play).
Perhaps the Pac should start concentrating on turning their remaining schools into soccer schools (as a priority, not just an extra sport) and start playing in the football stadiums. Might be awkward at first like MLS was in the '90s, but the potential is H-U-G-E.
Soccer has no CTE issues compared to football, they occasionally have some concussion concerns but that’s it.
The reason basketball will never overtake either sport is because of the height problem. Soccer and to a much lesser extent football allows for a wider variety of heights/builds
I’ll admit, I watch very little soccer. So to me, it seems like a sport where commercial breaks would be far and few between. Based on the US model of squeezing in as much advertising as actual sports coverage, how would that work for soccer?
This is a serious question I wonder about. I love auto racing. I used to be a huge Indycar fan and always tuned into NASCAR, but have switched to F1 since they don’t have commercials during races. NBC has ruined Indycar for me with it basically being one long commercial with a little racing sprinkled in.
Football almost lends itself to TV and commercials with all the breaks in action it does have.
I rarely dumb posts but saying the MLS will be one of the best leagues in the world is moronic. Like Nebraska leaving would destabilize the big ten bad…
Thank you for the expert information. Has there been a direct correlation with TAU protein buildup and CTE? Has this methodology been via autopsies or is it measurable? What symptoms would suggest wanting a test like this? I'm curious on personal levels as well. Thanks in advance.
That’s why soccer is better than football for the majority of the world. There are no commercials. The in stadium ads, score sponsors, and jersey sponsers are the only real ads outside of halftime.
Having played soccer for 40 years during my life (an awful lot of headers) and suffering a lights out concussion against Colorado I'm pretty sure there's a risk there as well.
Yes there has been a direct and proven correlation. It’s only been able to be studied via autopsies. Symptoms wouldn’t matter it should be a yearly test for all football players starting in high school if it did exist, which it sadly doesn’t. The moment a non invasive test like that exists, game over for football.
Maybe but I don't see it happening unless and until a majority of kids are playing soccer when they're 5, 10, into middle school and high school. Until then American sports fans aren't going to have the personal connection to it like they do football. I have a hard time seeing football fans throughout the South, Midwest, rust belt, etc., transitioning to soccer from football any time soon.
No worries! Not offended at all. Not next week, but in 50 years, it could be. That's a long time in Sports years. The U.S. Market is H-U-G-E, the growth of soccer in the U.S. is H-U-G-E. Today it's Messi and others retiring to M.L.S., but I can see a day when M.L.S. is a premier destination league. The Stadium investment has been very strong, and M.L.S. is light years better than it was just 25 years ago. In 50 years, I can see it...
You’ve got a decade on me and you’re right there is a risk, same way nba players also get concussions but compared to football it isn’t even close. Every single play in football is like being in a small car accident for the lineman/RB
If it does, I think you'd be surprised at how many 'game over' for other sports as well (hockey and rugby come to mind).
All the P12 schools are delusional about their likelihood of joining the B10. If you read all of their message boards (except for AZ, OSU, and WSU) they all think they are likely headed to the Big 10. 12 years of realignment have made us much wiser
That's cool. I get that. I think it's happening though. More kids grow up playing it now than when I was kid. It's a thing now,
Rugby is fine because they don’t have helmets and pads so it’s shockingly safer. Hockey has also never really been a concern.
Very interestingly, it was the 2nd most popular summer sport next to baseball when I was a kid. And that was during the Jurassic era.
Not all American sports fans... but definitely the same fans that would look at a football game featuring the two best defenses ever to play the game and say "this game is boring - the offenses suck".