The reason some of don't like soccer is because it just isn't as interesting to us compared to the other sports. Even though oddly and contrary to what most people outside the US think, we grow up playing soccer!. In fact it's probably one of the most played childhood sports here, all my friends have played soccer growing up as kids, but not everyone has played american football, basketball or baseball, although baseball is probably 2nd after soccer. Unfortunately against what most of the world may feel, a lot of us just think Soccer is an inferior sport, only being able to use your legs and head, and we hate seeing the ball kicked back and forth for minutes on end without anything materializing from it. Not even a kick towards the goal sometimes, it's frustrating!. You get a whole game with only 1 or 2 goals, it's like sex man!, all that building up just for one or two climactic moments!. Also with American football, we love the physical contact that it promotes, and also the different sizes of a people playing the same game. Plus it's got tons of potential for huge and exciting moments, even if the team doesn't score, you can still see an amazing play or collision, or display of great athleticism which can be slowed down, zoomed in and marveled at over and over again. So obviously I'm an american football fan, the divide here is usually between basketball and football. It seems you either like football or basketball, the rest are baseball fans, and even less there are hockey fans. But I've never met or known a soccer fan here, well that was a native anyway, most people here that like soccer are immigrants from other countries, like Mexico and S. America. So sorry world soccer fans, most people could care less that the United States is even playing today win or lose, although I'm going to watch it just to check it out. But I don't see this changing anytime in the near future, with American football and basketball taking most of the fans here.

During the past 30 years soccer is played more and more in the USA by youth. In the 1960s, it was 90% baseball, football and basketball. USA soccer pro teams are ok. They are not as exciting to watch as UK or German professionals. Thanks to sat tv, I get to see the Europe pros play. The USA teams have been getting better, but they are not as exciting. I like to watch soccer and hockey. I am not a big fan of American football. It stops all the time. One hour of play compressed into 3 hours or more. I also like Aussie rules football. It has none stop action and the physical contact without pads. However, I am not the average USA sports watcher. Most USA sports has to much stop time. American Football is best watch recorded. That way you can fast forward through all the stops and see the game in an hour.

Quite honestly we find it boring. I don't know why either, but we do, or at least most of the people I have met in life do. We had a pro soccer (football) league a long time ago in the 1970's, but it just didn't catch on here. I feel soccer is just ice hockey on the grass, and as such has a much slower pace. Hockey is far more exciting - they smash each other against the boards and things move faster. I know baseball can be considered boring by many, but we love that because with each batter SOMETHING will happen. Soccer seems to be people just running up and down a field doing nothing.