Americans, will you watch/care about the World Cup?

Well considering the United States is one of FIFA's most important markets and we already pay the largest television rights fees to FIFA of any country, i'd say a large number of American's will watch and care about the World Cup when the time comes around.

None of my friends watch it.  I dont.  Yet it's the only team sport I'd want to play... and yet I dont.  So nope. 

If you are interested, this is probably a good place to start: Saturday 12th of June, Group C, England Vs USA. 
 
Catch it on the web, should be good.

The only sporting event I care about is F1, and some le mans here and there.

No. I'll probably catch the highlights online but I don't plan on sitting down and watching it.

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How big is Football over there?

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" It's a real shame that most Americans don't seem to care, the USA have a really strong team. You should easily qualify for the knock-out rounds. "

Basketball and handegg are enough for me. You bitch about your sport not flying here and never give our sports a chance. So I guess its just bullshit nationalism from both ends.

Not really interested but my sports interests are pretty narrow so its not just soccer (or football in other countries) that I don't care about. For instance I simply can't watch baseball. i find it so boring!

I'm not American and I still don't care, football is not my thing at all.

 The World Cup is about the only time I'll watch soccer of my own volition. I'm pretty excited for it, even if I don't know anything about the players. Now I just need to find out how to stream this Saturday's game at work...  

"  The World Cup is about the only time I'll watch soccer of my own volition. I'm pretty excited for it, even if I don't know anything about the players. Now I just need to find out how to stream this Saturday's game at work...   "

I'm not a big soccer fan, but when the world cup comes around, I just have to watch.

Yeah, I'll tune in to watch some games every now and then.

I'm gonna watch the USA vs. England game on Saturday. Maybe I'll watch the finals match too, or whatever its called.

I'm Canadian,
but the answer is No.
Soccer is not fun to watch.

" I'm wondering how much you Americans care about the greatest sporting event in the world, and if you will be watching the USA team play at all (or at the very least look at the results). "

HELL NO.

Yup yup, the US got a bunch of bad calls thrown their way last time, so all they need is fewer of those and they could be one of the most dangerous teams in the field.

I don't care about the World Cup so No.

Wow, this is really even.

You should all give it a chance with the England vs. USA game on saturday. That game should be great and a great way to kick it off. Unlike the first few games which feature the host team in the competition (who automatically get in despite being 78th in the world) and a seriously misfiring team in the shape of France.

Not really into sports at all myself, but I know a lot of people here stateside that are WAAAAAAY into soccer/football.

I watch hockey, its like soccer but exciting. I will watch it if the u.s. plays North Korea though

I've been looking at soccer some lately, as ESPN always shows MLS during the season and there's plenty of soccer on the ESPN3 web service.   I'm probably not going to be watching a ton of games live due to the time difference, but I'll certainly watch 'em on ESPN3, it looks interesting.
 
However, it's just not going to be on the level of American Football.  I can see it soon outpacing hockey and giving baseball and basketball a run for their money (look how close to even the yes and no votes are), but American Football is king in this country.

I'll maybe watch some US games.  Maybe.  To me soccer is essentially hockey without any danger on a football sized field.  I love me some hockey, but take out the cross checking and fighting and make the rink like 100 times bigger and I'd certainly fall asleep, as I do whenever soccer is on.  I'd love to go to a game in person in a country that loves it though.  Shit looks nuts.

It must be quite the cup if it belongs to the world.

" @masternater27:  I could show you some pictures that might make you re-think your idea of soccer not being dangerous. "

No! We don't like soccer! Leave us alone!

Oh man this whole discussion has me looking at things that I immediately wish I hadn't. 

I don't watch or play soccer, so I don't really care about it. The only sport I watch is hockey. 

" @YukoAsho:  @Teeknuts:  It has so much less impact and generally feels like less is happening than all of the sports that I enjoy.  Like even though baseball is slow and boring to most the batter/pitcher matchup is something unrivaled in sports.  It's essentially a chess match with athleticism thrown in. 
 

I've never been this excited for a World Cup! I'm going to watch as many games as my schedule will allow me, and probably have the others on in the lab :)
 
Also, while I want the USA to win, I've got my money on either Argentina, Germany or England. But hey, what the hell do I know. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

I'm American and I cannot wait for the world cup! I probably wont be able to watch any of it live but i'm gonna record all of it and watch what i miss at a later date. I'm excited about seeing America win 3 games total and then watch Brazil disappoint again. 

Soccer is the only sport I've neither enjoyed playing or watching, so no. 

Not in the least. Not that I don't respect the sport, it just doesn't interest me.

Soccer is great in theory, but in practice, it's hard to watch... Specifically, the flopping. For fucks sake, take a hit like a man, and get the fuck up.  
 
Worst of all, since flopping is popular and accepted in the world's most popular sport, it's now creeping into other sports, like Basketball (my personal sport of choice).  
 
Thank you South America and Europe, for raising a generation of flopping pussies. 
 
All that said, I can't wait for Saturday. Yes, I'm from America, and I'm rooting for the US. Although, since I'm a casual fan, and half Italian, I'm rooting for both.

Bitch, I only watch curling.

I love how they keep pushing soccer on us (Americans). Sure we flirt with soccer every now and then like with Pele, the sports bra chick, and that David Beckham fellow but we promptly forget about it a month or two later. Really the only people that watch soccer in the states are immigrants (both legal and illegal) who are 2 or less generations removed from there homeland, hipsters, college kids, and degenerate gamblers who will bet on anything sports related. 
We didn't accept the much more logical metric system what makes you think we will accept the most popular sport in the world ?

If it's on Sportscenter (ESPN, an all sports cable network in the US), I'll watch the highlights, but I won't tune in to the show just to catch the World Cup standings.  Currently, the National Basketball Association championship play-offs are going on and that has everyone's attention.  The National Hockey League's Stanley Cup play-offs just ended (congrats to Chicago) and the US Open golf tournament starts next week.   Plus, we're in the midst of baseball season.  All of these sports are more popular in the United States than soccer.  The sport is played by school children here, but it holds no wide interest as a spectator sport. 

sports which feature heavy cheating with steroids are better than sports in which someone uses guile and trickery to get a man sent off. 
 
Discuss?

" sports which feature heavy cheating with steroids are better than sports in which someone uses guile and trickery to get a man sent off.  Discuss? "

I'm pretty excited about it.