Good old Soccer...

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Simple reason why people don't like Basketball:

The games involve stupidly high scores (anywhere between 70-120+), so this means when somebody scores it is nothing special. However, in Football goals are few and far between making them special and hard to obtain. So when you score in Football it is an ecstatic feeling because of the effort and skill required to score. However, Basketball just has some 7" tall African Americans running up and down a court putting balls in holes; not really exciting.

To add to this glorious post:


Also, American football is not widely popular because the rest of the world happens to find the "pass, run, stop, pass, run, tackle, stop" theory repeating itself over and over again boring. It just doesn't have the same type of finesse, the beauty.

[Justiciar]

To add to this glorious post:


Also, American football is not widely popular because the rest of the world happens to find the "pass, run, stop, pass, run, tackle, stop" theory repeating itself over and over again boring. It just doesn't have the same type of finesse, the beauty.

Not yet, at least. France and Italy have managed to successfully catch on, though.