Soccer is like the communism of sports. It sounds good in theory until you witness it. Then all it is are a bunch of people incompetent at their job (scoring goals) while participating in an extraordinarily corrupt (FIFA) system, cwtremo writes.
The 22nd FIFA World Cup began Monday as 32 teams from around the world came to Qatar to compete for one of football's most prestigious titles. There was a lot of fanfare and celebration surrounding the games, as well as a lot of controversies, and all of it was probably an attempt to distract from the fact of just how awful it is to watch soccer.
The most exciting thing about soccer is probably the Apple TV series Ted Lasso, and that's because it doesn't include that much soccer while embellishing the amount of scoring that occurs when it does. There is just very little to get excited about when watching the game on television. Still, inexplicably millions of people do. However, millions of people legitimately thought communism would be a viable economic system that would lead to a utopia, and we know how that turned out.
Another clip highlights the difference in how Americans mostly view the sport compared to the rest of the world. The cultural divide is depicted in the international commentator's enthusiasm compared to the American commentator's. It's indicative as to why soccer lags behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey in fans in the country and why only 7% of people identify themselves as "avid fans.
Imagine watching the NFL and approximately half of the games each week ended with a score of 7-7 or 14-0. Or watching a baseball or hockey game, and 50% of the contests ended 2-0 or 1-1. Why would anyone continue to watch?
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