Soccer = for girls and recess at the special education class
Football = a physical and cerebral chess match. Like everything else, Americans march to our own drummer. 90% of the time the rest of the world follows like ducklings (urban culture, fast food, baseball). This has yet to catch on yet, that's all. Besides what worthwhile has come out of Western Europe lately? Mad cow disease, that's what?
Europe brought the Americans, is that good enough?