in division  or something like that and all teams can move or be relegated Its all this professional stuff when you dont give the same chance to everyone For example this year a what would be maybe called farm team Brommapojkarna with one of the best youth academy in Sweden Went to the highest division of Swedish football Something that isnt possible in USA right     The real reason why soccer is not popular in the US is that advertisers have to wait until halftime to screen commercials making it financially unattractive As the Bedford Reader puts it  The reason stems partly from the basic nature of  commercial television which exists not to inform and entertain but to sell During most major sporting events on television football baseball basketball producers can take advantage of natural interruptions in the action  to broadcast sales pitches or if the natural breaks occur too infrequently the producers can contrive timeouts for the sole purpose of airing lucrative commercials But soccer is played in two soled halves of fortyfive minutes each not even injury to a player is cause for a timeout How then to insert the requisite number of commercial breaks without resorting to false fouls or other questionable tactic After CBS aired a soccer match in  players reported according to Stanley Frank that before the game the referee had instructed them to stay down every nine minutes The resulting hue and cry rose all the way to the House Communications Subcommittee From that day to this no one has been able to figure out how to screen advertising jingles during a televised soccer game The result is that commercial television has treated soccer almost as if didnt exist    I notice no mention was made of the NHL Three  minute periods It is though a weak argument though as there are advert breaks in every commercial TV station no matter what the country the United States is no different in that regard to other contries all of whom manage to obtain lucrative advertising for football matches Sky Sports in the UK for instance make full use of advert breaks such as when the teams come out onto the pitch before the match they immediately go to an ad break Big matches attract huge advertising    top of talk page banner The banner is incorrect To my knowledge there has never been a vote on moving this page to association football   See Voting is evil and WikipediaPolling is not a substitute for discussion Wikipedia works by discussion and consensus not votes The naming issue has been discussed to death many times over the last  years that Ive been here always with the same result      Well almost  Ive been here and contributed to this page since September  correction August  under another name and what has been discussed to death is moving it to football or to soccer The argument for association football is a valid one and has never been tested for its popularity other than people saying we have discussed the issue to death and let sleeping dogs lie the compromise of the current name was chosen to quell a big argument  and not on its own merit It was a poor compromise in my opinion The banner is incorrect     I believe we have discussed a move to association football as well That discussion should be found either in the archives here or in the football project talk page archives           Ive only been watching this page since last year and its already come up more than enough times maybe you didnt notice it   There  youre just doing exactly what I said has been done again  people saying we have discussed the issue to death and let sleeping dogs lie  That is not proper debate  on merit which is what Im talking about     But you initially said that it was never voted or discussed on which