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To: thesilenttype who wrote (74832)	6/5/2002 2:22:18 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 99280

That's a long post ? as for Foot Ball... (soccer) just watch...

To: thesilenttype who wrote (74832)	6/5/2002 2:25:39 PM
From: Softechie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

Check statistics on youth sports...baseball going away and soccer up like no tomorrow...they're scraping baseball fields for soccer fields...

To: thesilenttype who wrote (74832)	6/5/2002 2:27:03 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99280

Americans will never embrace a team sport we can't domnate in Doesn't matter. America is so large and so prosperous that football could be the number 10 sport and America could do well on the world stage. Just ask the Portugese. -g- And if football ever does catch on, for real, don't think the rest of the world hasn't thought about the possibility of America fielding a team of players the size of Shaq who can run like Carl Lewis and sky like MJ.

To: thesilenttype who wrote (74832)	6/5/2002 2:43:30 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 99280

thesilenttype, <Americans will never embrace a team sport we can't dominate in.> I guess that's why that racket called the NBA is so popular. Tenchusatsu

To: thesilenttype who wrote (74832)	6/5/2002 4:21:22 PM
From: Steve Lee	Respond to of 99280

The success of football is down to one thing, and that thing will ensure that it becomes popular in the US, maybe even becoming the national game eventually. The key aspect is the simplicity. All you need is a ball of some description, or even a stone, and some loose objects to mark the corners of the pitch and the sides of the goal. Across Europe, South America and probably other places kids play it from a very early age. They need no referee, no equipment, no money and the rules are very simple. Do American kids have an impromptu game of basketball, baseball, American football or ice hockey on a patch of grassland or asphalt, or in a classroom when unattended for a few minutes? When that happens in the US with football (aka soccer) then those kids will become the soccer stars in your new national game. Personally I enjoy playing it, but don't see the attraction in watching. I will b watching the Argentina match on Friday tho. They are the football archenemy <vbg>.