In America, soccer is played together by little girls and boys. Then they grow up and never play it or watch it again.
Because it's boring.
Well, it's all the mindset, I suppose; Europeans have soccer, a non-contact, high-energy sport, while Americans have heavy-hitting games like football that are based around two people making physical contact in order to determine the end of a play, or sports that rely on vast amounts of risk such as open wheel and stock car racing.
On that subject, while I'm not particularly a NASCAR fan (born in Indianapolis, so I'm much more of an open-wheel person), I enjoy racing in general.
Yeah, but the rest of the world doesn't want the US poking its nose where it doesn't belong. They're happy to have NASCAR, American football and pig wrestling, and the rest of the world is happy to have real sports. No one would benefit from the two sides mixing.
If the US does enter the mainstream and embrace football, I fear it will be in the most abnoxious manner possible. They're very competitive, and will make a point of throwing enough money at the sport to trounce all the earnest-yet-poor countries. No country that I know of has commercialized its sports to the degree that the US has. Football is about spirit, not corporate sponsors and 8-figure salaries for the players. Admittedly, the commercialization of the sport has already been ongoing for quite a while, but I don't see how the US' involvement will help matters.
yes, I know, I'm terribly anti-American. But on this issue, I think I'm actually right
The second paragraph of your post I will agree with. Every single sport in the US has become extremely commercialized.
The first paragraph, however, seems to be much more a cheap shot at American stereotypes. That's annoying.
