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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
You're quite right we're no good at it. We don't value it. Our best athletes don't play it, nor do our fans have much interest in watching it. So it gets relegated to a minor tier sport. The question "Why don't we value it?" is the important one to look at...
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Well, that's easy. Because there is no place to put in commercials. Soccer is a timed game where the clock doesn't stop. So, where do you put in the TV ads? It just isn't commercially valid. Even the US Soccer League or whatever it is airs the games on minor cable channels that you have to pay to see.
Football (american) and Baseball have tons off opportunities to take time out for an add. A game with 4 15 minutes quarters takes 3 hours to "play" which gives them a captive audience for ads. This is also why Hockey here is such a minor TV covered sport also. Once again, a timed game with very few breaks or clock stoppages.
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