There are a number of things one my attribute to why sporting events in America are “different” in one-way or another. Take “World Series”, a misnomer perhaps or a means of showing the importance of our game. The rest of the world is inferior as we have a “World Series”. There is no other country that exists or has any value so we have it our way.

If you want to play in a world series you had better come to the United States or you are just out of luck! Does anyone else have a world series of baseball?

This thing about football/soccer is nothing more than that basic language barrier that exists between English speaking countries. We still have to learn how to speak proper English. The American form of the English language is lacking in many ways. Oh if only we were still colonies of England! Then we would have a better example of proper English.




>>It's called soccer here because we already had a football.
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>But surely YOU should have thought of another name for YOUR game, as football (or "footie" as we say) has been played in England since Roman times and in China since the Wall was built. Surely the first settlers kicked a ball about (esp. as this was prior to the invention of Rugby), or did one of them say "I have an idea! Now we're in the New World, let's drop that game where one kicketh the ball; let's play a game where we pick it up and fight with each other - and call it football. By the way, what WAS that game we were playing, where one kicketh the ball?"
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>Rugby is short for Rugby football and was invented when some lad at Rugby School picked up the ball and ran with it during a match of footie (so the legend goes)
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>>The popularity of soccer is growing here in the US. Salt Lake City has a professional soccer team that is playing its first season. I have yet to see a game, but they get large crowds attending.
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>>>Yeah I knew that you guys call it "soccer" - the word's a corruption and abbrev. of "Association football". Some old pundits over here call it that too. It may be a low-scoring game (but, let's face it, gridiron and rugby are only high-scoring because you get several points for a touch down and points for, in rugby, the following "conversion" - over the crossbar, and drop goals) but you've got a neck to call it SLOW. Watching gridiron is like watching the two armies setting up for Gettysburg: having to wait while different teams within a team come on and off, depending on whether they're offensive or defensive, etc. It's like watching paint dry in between the short, violent burts of action.
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>>>Over here, by the way, there are 2 types of rugby: Union and League (the more professional version), with slightly different formats ( 15 or 13 in a team, e.g) and rules, but both keep moving (league even more so than union).