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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
the biggest growth for futbol in the US is cable-satellite subscription to the Euro leagues.
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Makes perfect sense.
Exactly the same thing happened here in the 80s with the NFL, when we started getting live games and highlight shows. It developed a massive cult following, and a national league did emerge, but the fact was you'd see plenty of kids walking around in Bears, or Dolphins or Raiders shirts but none of any English teams. It even generated a national weekly magazine, First Down, which I used to buy religiously. It had maybe two token pages on domestic stuff but I think they even dropped those towards the end, so they could focus solely on the NFL (which I know was all I was interested in reading about).