by Englishman 12 Replies latest jw friends
America is, indeed, closing the gap. I'm pleased about that. It'd be nice to see them as real contenders. Then the rest of the world can start complaining that they only win because they have such a large pool of kids to draw from!
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Ozzie:
Do you reckon there's a whole generation of pommie kids that have never known their country to win the ashes!!!!!!!!!!
They've heard about it in their history books!!
Ok, boys, back to the "Bodyline" tactics...!!!
if the Ozzies ever get to the World Cup finals we'll see a completely different sort of match. But it isn't going to happen, is it?
City Fan:
You're kiddin' aren't you? It mighta been before your time but look in the history books and check the 1970s
Still, we'd like to try it again.
Ozzie
and I think the romance and attraction of the "great American pastime" of baseball is lost on today's youth - the passion just isn't there anymore, IMO - too slow, too boring, too time-consuming for the ADD generation.
I'm not trying to be a spoil-sport but I can't picture soccer ever being a "great American pasttime." You're right about baseball but it's been that way for more then a decade. People are tired of seeing the same teams win and the same teams loose year in and year out. Without market revenue sharing, teams like the Yankees will always have the big bucks to buy all the good players while teams like the Brewers will just have the left overs. The NFL has this and that's why every year you'll see an underdog team make a run for the playoffs (and some times win the Super Bowl). That's one reason football is the great American past time, has been for many years. Look at it both on a college and pro level. People can't get enough of it. Heck, they're just doing NFL mini-camp training right now and it's a top story on the news. I live hear in Chicago and I think I heard only one reference to this soccer match and I listen to sports talk radio all day.
I remember in the early 80's there was this surge of interest in major league soccer but it died out. Look what happened with women's soccer. That one woman, Mia?, was on the cover of every magazine but it to died out.
Then again, if soccer finds it's "Wayne Gretzky" it could have it's surge just like the NHL did in the 80's & 90's. And if they market it correctly, they could sustain it.
