Soccer still sucks!!!
It's boring and it is much like the metric system, which came into favor mostly as a product of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. The French hated the standard of Greenwich Mean Time so much the calculated the Distance from the North Pole to Paris to devise their own metric yard (they came up up with 1 million meters from Paris to the Pole). It is all contrived and the Euro Asian African standard.
So Why Does the English Standard Persist in America? It works!
It has a human sized scale as a standard. Miles measure better than Kilometers, so do feet over meters and degrees Fahrenheit makes infinitely more sense to the body than the tight temperature range for degrees Celsius.
For micro measuring in small pharmaceutical weights, metric works fine, ask a drug dealer.
RE: Soccer and the Metric System Duncan Currie & Jay Nordlinge
Personally, I have many liberal friends who hate soccer and many conservative friends who love it, so I find the constant politicization of the game to be more than a bit silly. Just as I cringe when pro-soccer liberals paint anti-soccer conservatives as knuckle-dragging reactionaries, I also wince when anti-soccer conservatives depict the sport as somehow un-American. It’s well past time to end the phony culture war.
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