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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
But American football and baseball were popular long before there was television. Why didn't Footbal (soccer) become popular during that time frame?
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Wow, that's a hard question to answer. Could it be that American's, seeing themselves as their 'own' people wanted a sport that was culturally theirs? A sport they could identify as American, even when those sports had their roots in Rugby and Rounders?