Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
So, how good are the professional and near professional atheletes in your country's 7th most popular sport?
Actually, that was a pretty bad example to apply at least to my country. According to a census I've seen some years ago (Like 2004), our 6th or 7th most popular sports was hockey (Not ice hockey. Standard Hockey). Our National Team did win the World Cup in Hockey some years ago. In any case, football is where all the european sport's money is applied. Meaning, even if football became the most popular sport in USA, and attracted large sponsors, etc. It would meet limited success internationally, since while in other Sports, European National Teams are rather "Not Top Quality", due to its popularity, in football, the USA would be bashing against exactly what most people want to be in the European Sports. As a consequence, it couldn't overpower the Europeans as they do in a lot of other sports.