SOccer is easy to understand and it doesn't take a lot to make a soccer field, so poorer countries can have professional league on the cheap.
Basketball is easy to understand too, and it doesn't really take a lot to make a basketball game, just a hoop and a ball. Oh look, it's the second most popular sport in the world.
Baseball and football require large stadiums, lots of equipment, and they have complicated rules.
That would be my guess as to why they aren't popular.
Baseball is probably more popular in Japan and Cuba than it is in the US (barring maybe New York, where they love the Yankees). Plus there is South Korea, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela, who all enjoy baseball. That's hundreds of millions of people not in the US right there. That's a large population of potential fans.
Basketball is growing in popularity in China. They have a billion plus people there. In the future, say twenty or thirty years, maybe they will produce as good or better players than the US, which would be fun.
Football is an American thing yes, but it is far from boring. It's probably the least boring of the big three sports. It is also like a religion in a lot of places, especially in the South. Look up the Penn State scandal for instance. They actually covered up the crimes of a child molestor because they wanted to win more football games. That is some serious *beep* up priorities yo.
If you were going to pick an American sport to pick on, NASCAR is probably the one you should go with. That's just a bunch of cars driving in a circle for hours. Though there is also drag racing with those goofy-looking cars. Monster trucks, don't know if that's considered a sport, but they come around quite a lot, jumping over cars. There are like tons of car related sports that we like to watch though.
NHL is probably the number five sport after NASCAR, NFL, NBA, MLB. It's really popular here in Michigan, like as popular as it is in Canada, though we've got love for football and baseball too. It's not that popular elsewhere though. Like in Florida or Nevada, they could give a *beep* about hockey.
College sports are almost as big as pro-sports here as well. College basketball and college football are probably bigger than professional hockey and NASCAR.
Volleyball is not popular here at all. Weird you bring that up?
Then you've got skateboarding, which is is pretty popular. Americans know who Tony Hawk and Bob Burnquist are at least. There's motocross too, Snowboarding, and BMX as well. Those are all American sports aren't they?
That UFC stuff is getting really popular right now too.
Though it was funny watching Junior Dos Santos knock out that Mexican dude in like twelve seconds flat. The Brazilians eat that *beep* up though. It's sort of like pro-wrestling, but for real. Oh, and people here even love pro-wresting, which isn't even a real sport.
You'd think soccer would be more popular here too because we've got more and more people from Mexico and Central America living up in here, it's still not though. That's probably going to change soon though. For instance, David Beckham is pretty well known here now. Though he's popular because he's "hot" and does underwear ads and is married to Scary Skinny Spice. The only other soccer players people are likely to name are Pele from Brazil and Mia Hamm.
There's also the Boston Marathon, which is like, the marathon to run in the world. Plus, there's the Kentucky Derby, which is pretty big for horse races right? The Iditarod is an American thing too. Oh, and the US is kind of awesome at gulf too. I mean Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus are American. The US does pretty good at tennis, gymnastics, swimming and diving, boxing, and a whole bunch of other sports as well. Americans didn't invent those though.
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