How did American football 🏈 become the most popular sport in USA than Football ⚽️ ? Football is the popular sport in almost every continent.
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It’s my understanding that the NFL (American football’s major league) saw a huge spike in soccer’s popularity so started dumping boat loads of money into high-school and college level sports providing the fields, gear, and going down the “hook’em when they’re young” path that cigarettes were doing.
At the same time, the US men’s soccer leagues were an absolute mess due to 2 competing professional leagues that sort of merged, but didn’t really, and still haven’t gotten their stuff together. They keep infighting instead of building their league.
This is also why the US women’s soccer team is really good, because they got started later as a separate independent organization that didn’t have the infighting of the men’s league, whereas the men’s league keeps shooting itself in the foot.
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