Quote Originally Posted by jimmyscoular View Post
You, of course, are the mirror image of the many Americans who complain that soccer is boring, with its "endless passing, stupid offside rule and low, low, low scoring." It does little good to point out that peoples as culturally diverse as the English, Brazilians, Germans, Ecuadorians, Koreans and Turks find it gripping. They just don't get it.

Here's the truth: If your parents had emigrated to Kansas City, and you had been born and raised there, chances are you would be absolutely on fire for today's game. It's what you know and where you're from.

Bit like language, really. Germans may sound guttural and rough, but to them it's all poetry.
The truth is English,Brazilians, Germans, Ecuadoreans, Koreans and Turks as you say and many more peoples play soccer but a measure of American Football is that very few other countries apart from the US play the sport. American football is totally and absolutely dependent upon their college system which makes it, apart from its turgid lack of continuity, not economically feasible to develop it anywhere else. The only way to watch American Football with enjoyment is solely highlights.
The recent innovation of Flag Football to try and give a sort of rugby 7’s appeal is plainly not thought through.