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EXACTLY....
they were saying 20 years ago that soccer would be big.....soon.
Hasn't happened.
Never will.
USA Pro MLS salaries: $100k per season
German Premier Division Salaries: $10,000,000 per season
nuh proof ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ztrader [mailto:ztrader@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:29 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re[2]: OT- USA team in final 8 of World Cup soccer
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> On Thursday, June 20, 2002, 11:14:35 PM, Simon Campbell wrote:
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> SC> The biggest sport in the world, played and watched by 6 billion
> SC> people outside the U.S. is called FOOTBALL!!
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> "Soccer" is not likely to be big in the US. It is a GREAT game to
> watch, with long periods of very interesting play - but that's the
> problem. US "football" has rather short periods of play with a LOT of
> time for commercials in between. Given the dominance of advertisers,
> guess which one will be supported in the US? It is not likely that
> there will be a "popular" game in the US unless it has a LOT of dead
> time between "plays". </cynic>
>
> ztrader
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