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[QUOTE="cuse309, post: 2638280, member: 5119"]
As well you should. Since 1994 no team sport has grown more than soccer. When somebody states that they think soccer will [B][I]one day[/I][/B] surpass football in popularity, they don't mean within 1 or 2 or 10 years. To imply it won't happen because it hasn't happened in 24 years is pretty short sighted. The emergence of a new sport is a slow progression of one sport, and a slow regression of another sport. So many young people play soccer now,
and in 50 years when today's kids and teens and young adults, all of whom grew up in a time where soccer was the game to play, are all 1-70 years old, they'll be demanding more soccer.
I doubt it will happen in my lifetime, but obviously, at some point, like any other #1 sport, Football will be knocked down a peg or 2 or 3.
I doubt that in the 1880's, horse racing fans could fathom boxing becoming more popular. I'll be it the 1920's, boxing fans scoffed at the idea that baseball could surpass the sweet science. I'll bet that in the 50's baseball fans laughed at the idea that a sport played with a weird shaped pig skin would take over baseball.
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