Cameron Adams
Ms Roth
English 1-2 pd6
20 March 2017
Rough Draft America differs from other countries not only in what measurement system is used, but also in what sports the US plays. The rest of the world has played and excelled in soccer and left the US in the dust. The trade off is that no one can match the US in basketball or football. America does not consider soccer as important as football and basketball, there are many reasons why. The US despises soccer because America hates low scoring games, the US is not the best in the world, and America absolutely detests tie games. One of the reasons the US has more interest in basketball and football is because America detests low scoring games. The US is accustomed to games that …show more content…
Football may have one or two tie games in five years while soccer has tie games what seems like every other day. Soccer is a sport in which it is no big deal to have a tie game. However, in football and basketball, tie games are almost unheard of. “In its (America’s) first game, the US team achieved a tie with the heavily favored England” (Mandelbaum n.p.). Key word in that quote, achieved, it was an accomplishment to tie in a soccer game while in football it's a rare day when two teams go head to head for four quarters and 3 overtime and have no one win. Although this tie game was beneficial to the US, the American public will not approve of tie games on a regular basis. “As long as American athletes don't play, the American team will not have a chance to win the World Cup” (Mandelbaum n.p.). If the American youth is not attracted to soccer as they are to other sports, America will be in steady pursuit of NFL championships and Olympic Basketball wins quite a bit more than a soccer game. Tie games are a tremendous reason that causes the US to disprove and dislike soccer and they will gravitate to other sports as people have in the past. Soccer has a lot of rules and regulations the US is not used to. In the end, the soccer rules will remain the same as they have for years and the US will not warm up to soccer as much as people have adored other American
Ms Roth
English 1-2 pd6
20 March 2017
Rough Draft America differs from other countries not only in what measurement system is used, but also in what sports the US plays. The rest of the world has played and excelled in soccer and left the US in the dust. The trade off is that no one can match the US in basketball or football. America does not consider soccer as important as football and basketball, there are many reasons why. The US despises soccer because America hates low scoring games, the US is not the best in the world, and America absolutely detests tie games. One of the reasons the US has more interest in basketball and football is because America detests low scoring games. The US is accustomed to games that …show more content…
Football may have one or two tie games in five years while soccer has tie games what seems like every other day. Soccer is a sport in which it is no big deal to have a tie game. However, in football and basketball, tie games are almost unheard of. “In its (America’s) first game, the US team achieved a tie with the heavily favored England” (Mandelbaum n.p.). Key word in that quote, achieved, it was an accomplishment to tie in a soccer game while in football it's a rare day when two teams go head to head for four quarters and 3 overtime and have no one win. Although this tie game was beneficial to the US, the American public will not approve of tie games on a regular basis. “As long as American athletes don't play, the American team will not have a chance to win the World Cup” (Mandelbaum n.p.). If the American youth is not attracted to soccer as they are to other sports, America will be in steady pursuit of NFL championships and Olympic Basketball wins quite a bit more than a soccer game. Tie games are a tremendous reason that causes the US to disprove and dislike soccer and they will gravitate to other sports as people have in the past. Soccer has a lot of rules and regulations the US is not used to. In the end, the soccer rules will remain the same as they have for years and the US will not warm up to soccer as much as people have adored other American