Soccer and sex?

**NATEizKING** · 04-20-2012, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by ISUCubswin

1. It's not just baseball fans that say soccer sucks. It's 80% of America.
2. Whoever said MLB is dying and MLS is rising...I'm still laughing. I agree MLB is dying, but MLS will never reach MLB fandom. And I'd say MLS hasn't been improving their fandom either. Not many people can name 2 MLS teams.

Expanding was the term, not rising. I guess adding multiple teams doesn't qualify as expanding? You know nothing about soccer fandom, anybody can throw out percentages, I already did once in this thread.

**NATEizKING** · 04-20-2012, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by baller21

I'm not saying it's more difficult to play soccer an elite level than it is baseball at an elite level. All I'm saying is you'd have no clue as whether that's true or not. I'd like to know what your soccer background is. I'm sure you were awesome when you were 8.

Played from age 3 through my first year of college.

**CLONECONES** · 04-20-2012, 01:28 PM

I mean, even the NHL has like triple the fans of MLS

**3TrueFans** · 04-20-2012, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by CLONECONES

I mean, even the NHL has like triple the fans of MLS

To be fair, it's been around for about 80 more years too.

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**VeloClone** · 04-20-2012, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by 3TrueFans

To be fair, it's been around for about 80 more years too.

+1 you beat me to it while I was looking it up. 1917 vs. 1996.

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**CLONECONES** · 04-20-2012, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by 3TrueFans

To be fair, it's been around for about 80 more years too.

US Professional Polo has been around since the 1880's...

whats your point? people just don't love the sport here

**3TrueFans** · 04-20-2012, 01:37 PM

US Professional Polo has been around since the 1880's...

Is that a thing?

**cy1010** · 04-20-2012, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by CLONECONES

US Professional Polo has been around since the 1880's...

whats your point? people just don't love the sport here

That's fair. But you get the point. If you've had time to establish your product for 80 years you have a leg up on a product that's been around for 16 years, with many of of the franchises being younger than a decade old.

**VeloClone** · 04-20-2012, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by cy1010

That's fair. But you get the point. If you've had time to establish your product for 80 years you have a leg up on a product that's been around for 16 years, with many of of the franchises being younger than a decade old.

95 years.

**cy1010** · 04-20-2012, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by VeloClone

95 years.

80, 95. No real difference there. The larger point is the age of MLS. The NHL will always be roughly 80 years older than the MLS but in 50 years that's sort of a silly argument.

But, point taken, sir.