We have all seen it, heard it, read it. Soccer is boring. Soccer is only for geeky gym class kids with pocket-protectors and thick glasses. Soccer is a foreign game for hooligan, drunken psycho-fans.
Soccer is just plain un-American.
It surely didn't materialize out of thin air. On the contrary, many of these argument are recycled year after year. No other sport is privy to such consistent degradation in the mainstream press. In fact, most anti-soccer arguments have little to do with soccer. Whether its Dan Barreiro in the Mpls.