Sure. It would be like watching American Football if you didn't have a clue. Actually, that would probably be the most annoying sport I can imagine in that scenario. Literally 20 minutes (tops) of action over a 4-hour window. A sport that can only be appreciated if you are born and raised with it and why it has ZERO chance of catching on outside of the US. Yes, it is incredibly annoying for that first hour when I switch over from ZERO commercials to 4-8 every 5 minutes.
Oddly enough, American's are very pro socialist concepts when it comes to athletics such as revenue sharing and salary caps to get a level playing field. While European soccer has serious issues with run away capitalism, which based on many of the sentiments shared y'all would hate it. Germany is kind of the exception, the fans collectively said stay the hell out to corporate take over.
You mean an actual capitalist system (European Soccer) or a contrived one designed to profit a few owners (even at taxpayer expense) like ours?
There should have been. A LONG time ago. And FULLY FUNDED by the NFL. You know, the richest pro league in the world and the only one that makes no investment in player development. If they'd had that option - like they do in baseball, hockey and basketball - all of this could have been headed off a long time ago. But here we are, trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle with no hope of that ever happening.
Socialist for the benefit of the owners, not Socialist. I.E. They use socialist methods to ironically keep salaries and cost down and profits up for THEMSELVES. "Socialism" that benefits 32 extremely wealthy individuals isn't exactly "Socialism" as we typically think of it. Oh, and you've gotta love Germany's 49% system. IMO, the teams should belong to the fans. The owners are just caretakers who get to make some money off it during their stint as caretaker. This moving teams (or threatening to do so) for leverage is a totally American thing. And, sadly, we just accept it.
Ultimately I see about 40 teams splitting off into a Super League and the rest being something like the lower divisions in the FA. If they could do a tiered system like that with relegation, it might be cool. IMO, it will be a better product than the Super League because it will be more about the shirts than the guys in the shirts, which is why most of us here like college football.
