What is your opinion of soccer

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. Soccer is actually the fastest growing sport in the US

there are reasons why I would not go watch an exhibition game again, and I let the management of the America know exactly why after they fumbled that one four years ago, but if we had an MLS team in San Diego, I would not have an issue with it. I would love to take an afternoon off and go watch a good soccer match.

On the other hand, you will not get me to watch or support an NFL team (will make an exception for the Bruins this year due to Michael Sam, but his story is both a sports story and a political story), or a baseball or basketball team.

And it is quite liberating to watch world class soccer and really not be behind any of the teams.

Here, some info for you as to this growth.

After Flirting With Failure, Major League Soccer Popularity Now Surging
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The MLS fan base has grown dramatically over the past decade. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)

Clark Hunt — son of the late NFL legend and Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt — has a lot to be excited about these days. Yes, the president and partial owner has watched his Chiefs leap to their first 9-0 start in a decade after years of irrelevance. But the NFL season is long and brutal, and a variety of misfortunes could derail a Super Bowl bid and render that enthusiasm short-lived. He has more to be genuinely excited about in a different league and a different sport altogether– the other football: Major League Soccer.

The MLS Cup Playoffs are underway, and even though FC Dallas, the team he owns with his family, didn’t make the post-season, the future of the league he and his family helped build from the ground up has never been brighter.

For years it’s been the league that cried relevant. Hyped up events — from hosting the World Cup in 1994, to luring legendary British midfielder David Beckham to the L.A Galaxy in 2007, to recent international success of the men’s and women’s national teams — offered promise to finally catapult domestic soccer into national prominence, only to provide an small, incremental boosts after all the dust and fanfare settled. The lucrative television rights deals of the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL have long dwarfed that of MLS — which as recently as 2011 signed a three-year deal with NBC worth a meager $10 million per year, according to the Sports Business Journal. A decade ago, MLS was teetering on the brink of failure.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexmorrell/2013/11/08/after-flirting-with-failure-major-league-soccer-popularity-now-surging/