Maybe second to baseball, the national league try to kickstart a winter soccer league in 1880, maybe here they sucess and soccer is seen as baseball winter little bro?With a POD no earlier than 1900.
Maybe second to baseball, the national league try to kickstart a winter soccer league in 1880, maybe here they sucess and soccer is seen as baseball winter little bro?
If the US wins the 1930 World Cup, i think that could help, after all the US earned third place in that competition
That is a way,a model to keep 'parity' and slowly introduce the sport and to train players, that way football-soccer is baseball winter lil bro, played on the same grounds when is too cold for baseballThe best way for this to succeed is if they allow the teams to import English players. IIRC the League failed because the best teams were "cheating" by bringing in foreign nationals who knew the game. If professional soccer succeeds in the 1880's it has an outside shot of being taken seriously in the US, but even so its a hard sell.
Well you know some of us white Europeans do like football (the real one of course not the American oddity)Isnt Association football already the biggest sport in the USA (if you include women playing and viewing) in terms of players and viewers. If it isnt yet it very soon will be as the Latin population overtakes the white european.
That is a way,a model to keep 'parity' and slowly introduce the sport and to train players, that way football-soccer is baseball winter lil bro, played on the same grounds when is too cold for baseball
Isn't soccer very popular among Hispanic American demographics ?With a POD no earlier than 1900.
European goes all well into snow and seems fineThat would make it a warm climate sport from the get-go. I know soccer can be played in the snow but how the shit do you expect it to catch on in places like Chicago where it gets, how do I put this, really buttfucking cold in the winter? Not to mention the snow.
Here is the issue. Today you have the North American Soccer League, Major League Soccer, Major Indoor Soccer League, and more. So the sport has interest, but it is fragmented between leagues.
That would do it. There would be no NFL. College football would be reduced to rugby. Soccer would be called football the way it is elsewhere. An issue is the schedule timing. Baseball is played about 6 games per week. Soccer is also a warm weather sport. The American season would likely be shifted forward into the autumn to replace football. Currently, college baseball (or high school where applicable) is played in the spring; same with soccer. The current tradition is for the collegiate football season to wind up at the end of November and move into December postseason "bowls" or championships. NCAA football is a very lucrative money-making venture; just look at the size of the stadiums. But then, with no knowledge of OTL football, new traditions would evolve with soccer.A good POD involves Theodore Roosevelt deciding that football (the American variety - Tackle, Handegg, Gridiron, whatever you want to call it) is too dangerous and needs to be done away with. This leaves a gap, most likely filled with soccer and rugby. Soccer takes off big time when soldiers play it with their comrades in WWI. This would especially be increased if the US enters the war after the Lusitania, which maaaaaaay happen if, say, Taft has a health scare and America runs TR in 1912 and makes an exception to the whole two-term rule juuuuuuuuuust this once.
Of course, this has a shit-ton of repercussions unrelated to sports, but for purposes of sports, the big team sports would be baseball, soccer, rugby, basketball and hockey in no particular order, likely with baseball at the top at first and soccer being king now.
Isn't soccer very popular among Hispanic American demographics ?