> Someone once claimed that the reason soccer is not big in the US is that we can't get excited about any sport where a team can legitimately be said to have bu

> Someone once claimed that the reason soccer is not big in the US is that we can't get excited about any sport where a team can legitimately be said to have built an insurmountable 1-0 lead. This doesn't apply to soccer at all though. Even a 2-0 lead is often list in a few minutes. What makes soccer exciting isn't the scoring, but that you are always just second away from a goal that could change the game. That's why you'll hardly ever see in soccer that the audience leaves the stadium before the end of the game like you are in baseball all the time.