OT: why football is better than American football

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by gravey101:
>While soccer is more universally accepted, it has nowhere near the ability to generate income. Even here, there will be more youth soccer in my town than football. But as these kids get to high school, the soccer players drop way off...

Maybe today. But let's see what whether that is still the case in 50 years or whatever. Soccer is still comparitively new to the States so your comparison is meaningless. When I walk past playgrounds these days in the US, they look like the ones I saw back in UK, everyone is playing football... err I mean soccer. In 50 years those kids will be deciding where the cash goes.

That's not true at all, I played prep school soccer in the 70's. And my dad did the same in the 40's. I will agree that it has become much more popular of late. But here the peak was in the early 90's, it has fallen off a lot since then.